Editorial Team

Anukriti Dixit, Interdisciplinary Center for Gender Studies, University of Bern

Dr. Anukriti Dixit is a postdoctoral scholar at the Interdisciplinary center for gender studies, University of Bern. Her primary areas of work are public policy, gender and social policy as well as development studies. She works on applications and critiques within public policy and development studies - that come from feminist theory, poststructuralist and (post/de) colonial theories. Her work seeks to illustrate how theories such as intersectionality, productive power, subjectivation, performativity and decoloniality offer a chance to effect social and political change and what relevance do they have in analyses of public policies. She is the reciepient of the Swiss government excellence scholarship for 2019-2020 and the small grant for feminist research (2018-2019), sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

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Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman

Carolina Borda-Niño-Wildman PhD, PhD, BSc, MScR, FHEA is a medical anthropologist, political scientist, and Butoh dancer. She is dedicated to studying the political economy of violence(s), the intersection of gender/class/ethnicity, and identity politics in Latin America and Europe. Over the past twenty years, she has mentored and inspired young generations of researchers at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Edinburgh University, ECPACT Colombia, The Women’s World Banking Foundation-Colombia (FWWB), The Observatory for the Equity of Women (OEM, FWWB-ICESI University), and the National Health Services in Scotland. Carolina currently serves as the Head of Research, Development, and Innovation at the National Health Services for Scotland's Ayrshire & Arran region.

Marija Grujić, Lehrstuhl für Vergleichende Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)

Dr. Marija Grujić is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and a Walter Benjamin Fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG). She holds a doctorate in sociology from Goethe University Frankfurt, where she also worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Women's and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, sexuality and asylum systems, decolonial and feminist approaches and the integration of new technologies in asylum procedures. She is particularly interested in the role of gendered nationalisms on belonging and the constructions of femininities and masculinities in migration experiences, especially in the context of interactions with the gendered norms of host societies. Dr. Grujić is the author of the monograph Belonging in Unhomely Homelands: Gendered Nationalism and Internal Displacement among Kosovo Serbs (Berghahn, 2025). She has conducted extensive qualitative research on migration, gender dynamics and intersectional perspectives and has collaborated with international organizations and NGOs. She is a recipient of the DAAD PhD scholarship and the German Research Foundation (DFG) scholarship.

Lydia Ayame Hiraide, Graduate School for International Peace Studies, Soka University

Dr. Lydia Ayame Hiraide is a Tenure-Track Lecturer in the Graduate School for International Peace Studies at Soka University (Japan). Her PhD, on intersectionality and British environmentalism from Goldsmiths, University of London was funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Lydia Ayame was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in the Politics department at SOAS and Associate Lecturer in the Politics department at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work examines the intersections of the social and ecological foundations of environmentalism, with a focus on how power works through the lenses of race, gender, class, and other axes of domination.

Maximiliane Hädicke M.mel., Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Göttingen Medical Centre

Dr. Maximiliane Hädicke has been a research assistant at the Institute of Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen since 2019. She received her doctorate in 2023 with an empirical-ethical thesis on the problem of discrimination against trans*gender children and adolescents in the healthcare system. She is particularly interested in children's rights, autonomy and its social conditions, medicine as a social practice, gender equality and anti-discrimination.

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PD Dr. habil. Yves Jeanrenaud, Institute of Sociology, LMU Munich and Darmstadt UAS

Since 2019, Yves Jeanrenaud is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Chair of Sociology and Gender Studies at LMU Munich and since 2024 deputising Chair of Sociological Foundations of Social Work at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Worked previously at the Technical University of Munich from 2008 - 2019, and received a PhD in 2014. Habilitation in Sociology in 2021. 2018/2019 Deputy Chair of General Sociology at the University of Vechta. 2020 - 2021 Visiting Professor for Gender Studies in STEM and Med. at the University of Ulm.
Expert for the European Commission (EC-REA) and the Volkswagen Foundation, the German Academic Exchange (DAAD) and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, inter alia. Main areas of expertise are gender studies, sociology of the labour market and the family with focus on the gender division of labour, biographical research with a focus on the sociology of education, heterogeneity and discrimination, especially in the field of STEM, sociology of technology with a focus on the gender division of labour, technology design and digitalisation.

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Dr. Sandra Lang, Institute for Education Studies, University of Zürich

Sandra Lang is a researcher at the Chair of Science Didactics and Sustainability at the University of Zurich. She studied Sociology and Jewish Studies and did her doctorate in Science and Technology Studies. Her research interests lie at the nexus of Sociology and History of the Sciences and Medicine, as well as Gender Studies and Environmental Humanities.

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Yvonne Schüpbach, Institute of History, University of Bern

Yvonne Schüpbach is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of History and the Graduate School Gender Studies at the University of Bern. Her research focuses on gender and body history, particularly in the context of sport, as well as the application of interdisciplinary and historical approaches to the analysis of gender relations.

As part of her project “Perfect Performance”, she is investigating the historical dynamics of gender and physicality in Swiss women's artistic gymnastics in the 20th century, shedding light on how these concepts were negotiated and shaped social norms and practices. She is the recipient of the Doc.CH (2022-2025) and the mobility grant (2022-2023) from the Swiss National Science Foundation and start-up funding from the Institute of History at the University of Bern. For her work she received the Early-Career Researchers Award of the Transnational Working Group for the Study of Gender and Sport (2022).

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Julia Wartmann, Intersectionality and International Relations, Geneva Graduate Institute

Julia Wartmann graduated with a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Arabic from the University of Zurich. She then obtained her Master of Science in International Relations of the Middle East with Arabic at the University of Edinburgh, while studying Arabic for a trimester at the University of Bir Zeit. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Basel, with a thesis on gender equality reforms in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, also known as Rojava. Her work, which explores the role of the meaning of different notions of freedom on the democratic practices of women and non-binary people, can be located at the intersection of International Relations and Gender Studies. She also teaches on intersectionality and international relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

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Julia Perry M.A., Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Göttingen Medical Centre

Julia Perry has been working at the Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Göttingen Medical Centre since 2012. She studied sociology in Bremen with a focus on migration sociology and sociology and gender studies in Göttingen. Her research interests include sociology of human rights, qualitative social research, implications of genetic testing and research ethics. She is currently working on her PhD on sociological aspects of dementia prediction and participation in dementia research. In addition, she has many years of experience in proofreading and translating English and German academic literature.

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Former Editors-in-Chief

PD Dr. phil. Solveig Lena Hansen, University of Bremen & University Medical Center Göttingen

Solveig Lena Hansen is a lecturer for ethics at the University of Bremen, Faculty 11 (Human and Health Sciences). Previously, she was a research associate at the University Medical Center Göttingen, where she is currently completing her habilitation. Her work focuses on the interdisciplinary field of bioethics and public health ethics, in particular on obesity, organ transplantation, stem cell research and reproductive technologies. Methodically, she specializes in the role of narrative media (film, literature, health campaigns) for ethical analysis and on gender as analytic catageory in the reflection of medicine and health systems.

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Dr. Susanne Hofmann, Latin America & Caribbean Centre, London School of Economics
Susanne Hofmann was visiting professor of the Research Network for for Gender and Migration Lower Saxony at the Institute for Migration Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) and the Göttingen Centre for for Gender Studies in 2016-2017. She is currently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the Latin America and Caribbean Centre at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include decolonial feminist theory, intimate and and affective work, gender and securitisation, borders and gendered gendered migration, anthropology of policy and critical bureaucracy research.

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Christoph Behrens, Département d‘Allemand, Université de Bourgogne-Dijon

Since 2019 Christoph Behrens is a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) lecturer and coordinator of international teacher training with the German Department at the University of Burgundy-Dijon. His research is situated in the area of francophone and italophone cultural and literary studies. In terms of methodology, his expertise includes cultural and literary studies with a strong focus on gender and queer theory as well as on diversity management in secondary education. Furthermore, he has been continually experimenting with performance pedagogy as part of secondary education and foreign language learning.

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Oliver Klaassen M.A., Institute for Art and Visual Culture, Carl Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Oliver Klaassen is a research assistant at the Institute for Art and Visual Culture at Carl Ossietzky University Oldenburg, a Ph.D. candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) of Justus Liebig University Giessen, and a board member of the Gender Studies Association. His* research interests include queer art and media studies, history and theory of photography, critical curatorial studies and art education, politics of aesthetics, and ethics of visuality. Most recently, Klaassen was a Fulbright Research Fellow at University of Southern California in Los Angeles (2019) and visiting scholar at State University of New York at Buffalo (2017).

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Dr. Julia Gruhlich, Institute of Sociology

Julia Gruhlich has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Sociology at the Philipps University in Marburg since 2021. Before that she was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen and the University of Paderborn. Her work focuses on the interface of the sociology of work, organisations, and gender. She has professional expertise in qualitative methods of social research, social theory, gender theory, theory of work and organisations, as well as intersectional and transnational research. She is interested in current debates about post-growth, approaches to sustainable work and life, as well as utopias and alternative social systems.

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Dr. Konstanze Hanitzsch, Coordinator at LAGEN

Since 2021, Konstanze Hanitzsch has been the coordinator of the state working group of institutions for women and gender research in Lower Saxony (LAGEN). From 2015 until 2019, she was research coordinator of the Göttingen Center for Gender Studies. She teaches and researches on the topic of feminist materialism, subject constructions, feminist literary studies and in the broadest sense cultural gender studies. She is currently working on a project with the topic "Postmagicscience" that deals with magic, witchcraft, materialism and contemporary art productions.

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