Christa Craven is the Dean for Faculty Development and a Professor of Anthropology and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies (Chair from 2012 to 2017) at the College of Wooster. Her research interests include reproductive health and reproductive justice, lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer reproduction, midwifery activism, feminist ethnography and activist scholarship, and feminist pedagogy. She is the author of Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family‐Making (Routledge, 2019), Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement (Temple University Press, 2010) and a textbook with Dána‐Ain Davis, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Her professional website is: http://discover.wooster.edu/ccraven.
Danielle M. Currier is an Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Coordinator of Gender Studies, and Director of the Summer Research Program at Randolph College. Her teaching foci are gender, sexuality, family, qualitative methods, and social theory. Her research foci are hookups among college students, violence against women, and gender and sport. She is coauthor of “The Social Construction of Women's Interests in the 2014 and 2010 Midterms” in Political Communication & Strategy: Consequences of the 2014 Midterm Elections (2017). She is author of “Strategic Ambiguity: How the Vagueness of the Term ‘Hookup’ Protects and Perpetuates Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity” in Gender & Society (2013) and “Creating Attitudinal Change Through Teaching: How a Course on ‘Women and Violence’ Changes Students' Attitudes About Violence Against Women” in Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2009).
Dána‐Ain Davis is Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society and is on the faculty in the PhD program in anthropology and critical psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is also Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College. Her work is concerned with how people live policy, inequality, and racism. Her research topics include neoliberalism, poverty, reproduction, domestic violence, and HIV/AIDS. She is the author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU Press, 2019); coauthor, with Christa Craven, of Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); coeditor, with Shaka McGlotten, of Black Genders and Sexualities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); contributing author to Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy by Karen Baird with Kimberly Christensen (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009); and the author of Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (SUNY Press, 2006).
Cynthia Deitch is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; of Sociology; and of Public Policy & Public Administration at the George Washington University. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has been teaching a graduate seminar in feminist methodologies for several decades. She has published research on gender and various public policies, on gender and race in the labor market, and on workplace sexual harassment.
Manisha Desai is Head of the Sociology Department and Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research and teaching areas include gender and globalization, transnational feminisms, and contemporary Indian society. Among her recent publications are Subaltern Movements in India: The Gendered Geography of Struggles Against Neoliberal Development in India (Routledge, 2016) and, with Rachel Rinaldo, guest editor of the special issue of Qualitative Sociology on “Gender and Globalization.”
Valeria Esquivel is Senior Employment Policies and Gender Officer at the International Labour Office, based in Geneva. Before joining the United Nations in 2014, Valeria developed a long academic career as feminist economist, publishing extensively on labor, and macroeconomic and social policies. She coedited Gender & Development’s issue devoted to the Sustainable Development Goals (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2016) and is the editor of the collective volume La Economía Feminista desde América Latina: Una hoja de ruta sobre los debates actuales en la región (ONU Mujeres, Santo Domingo, 2012). Her latest publications have focused primarily on care policies and care‐workers. She coauthored the reports Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017) and Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (ILO, 2018). Her current research focuses on the intersections of gender, employment, and macroeconomics.
Sheila Greene is a Fellow Emerita at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland, and former AIB Professor of Childhood Research. She is a cofounder of the TCD Centre for Gender and Women's Studies and cofounder and former Director of the Children's Research Centre. Currently she is a Pro‐Chancellor of the University of Dublin. Her primary interest is in developmental psychology and her publications include The Psychological Development of Girls and Women (Routledge, 2003/2015), Researching Children's Experience (Greene and Hogan, Sage, 2005), Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies (Smith and Greene, Policy Press, 2015), and Children as Agents in Their Worlds (Greene and Nixon, Routledge, 2020).
Diane Grossman received her BA from Vassar College and her PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where she was an Ida Parker Bowne Scholar. She is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Philosophy at Simmons University and Director of the Honors Program. Dr. Grossman has served Simmons as Chair of both departments, as Director of Academic Advising, and as Associate Dean and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Existentialism and the Philosophical Tradition, Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life, and numerous articles and essays on ethics, feminist theory, and cultural studies. In addition, she is part of a cross‐disciplinary research team that studies girls' and women's perceived confidence; the team has published several articles on that subject. Her areas of specialization are continental philosophy, feminist theory, and applied ethics.
Koyel Khan received her doctorate from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tennessee Wesleyan University. Her research areas are neoliberal globalization, nationalism, gender, and culture.
A. E. Kohler is a medical anthropologist and critical disability studies scholar who focuses on the phenomenological dimensions of intellectual disability as they intersect with systems of health and social inequities.
Gina Marie Longo is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Sociology Department. She specializes in the sociology of gender, race and ethnicity, immigration, and digital sociology. Her research focuses on how U.S. citizens negotiate immigration official’s demands that they prove their marriages are authentic to obtain their foreign‐national spouses’ green card.
Gul Aldikacti Marshall is the Chairperson and a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Louisville. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, social movements, politics, and the media. She is the author of the book, Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey: Grassroots Women Activists, and the European Union. Her work has been published in edited volumes and numerous scholarly journals, such as Gender & Society and Social Politics.
Anwar Mhajne is an Assistant Professor at Stonehill College. She is a political scientist specializing in international relations and comparative politics with a focus on gender and politics. Her current research is at the intersection of gender, religion, and Middle Eastern politics. Dr. Mhajne focuses on how Islamic beliefs and institutions in the Middle East structure Muslim women's political understandings, agencies, and opportunities at local, national, and international levels.