Gill Wright Miller, Professor of Dance and Women's Studies, Denison University, researches the connection between somatic awareness and meaning‐making through both large‐scale embodied events and individual somatic explorations. Her embodied work involves opportunities to practice new patterns to shift mere “physical experiences” to full‐bodied “somatic activism.” She is the author/editor of many articles on somatics and academia and the text Exploring Body–Mind Centering: An Anthology of Experience and Method (North Atlantic Books, 2011). More recently, she was invited to speak about practice‐based research for Cultivating Equity & Access Across Difference: Dance Education for All in 2017; invited to speak and conduct workshops on the intersection of Body–Mind CenteringTM, Somatics, and Women's and Gender Studies for Encontro International de Prácticas Somáticas e Dança: Campus Brasília of Instituto Federal de Brasília in Brasilia, Brasil in 2018; and was a featured presenter for “Be(Com)ing the Change We Seek” at Somatische Akademie in Berlin, Germany in 2019.
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Claire M. Renzetti, PhD, is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, and Professor and Chair of Sociology, at the University of Kentucky. For more than 30 years, her work has focused on the violent victimization experiences of socially and economically marginalized women and girls. In addition to editing the “Gender and Justice” book series for University of California Press, she is editor of the international and interdisciplinary journal Violence Against Women, and coeditor of the “Interpersonal Violence” book series for Oxford University Press. She has written or edited 26 books as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles based on her own research, which currently includes an evaluation of a therapeutic horticulture program at a battered women's shelter and studies that explore religiosity and religious self‐regulation as protective and risk factors for intimate partner violence perpetration. Her scholarship and activism on behalf of abused and exploited women and girls has received national recognition with various awards from professional organizations, service agencies, and community groups.
Lauren Rosewarne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Lauren is a political scientist specializing in gender, sexuality, and the media. She is the author of 11 books as well as many articles, chapters, and commentary pieces. For more information: www.laurenrosewarne.com.
Ariella Rotramel is the Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College, and received a PhD in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Rotramel's research encompasses social movements, labor organizing, and queer and sexuality studies. Rotramel's book, Pushing Back: Women of Color–Led Grassroots Activism in New York City, examines women of color‐led organizing in contemporary New York City around issues of housing, the environment, and labor.
Anne Sisson Runyan, PhD in International Relations, Professor of Political Science, and Affiliate Faculty and former Head of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, is among the progenitors of and eminent scholars in the field of feminist world politics. Her authored, coauthored, and coedited books include Global Gender Politics (Routledge), Global Gender Issues (Westview Press), Gender and Global Restructuring (Routledge; third edition in progress), and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America (Ashgate, 2013). She is currently writing a book on gendered nuclear colonialism and recently guest edited and contributed an article on this subject to a special issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, for which she served as an associate editor, on “Decolonizing Knowledges in Feminist World Politics.” Other recent publications have appeared in Critical Studies on Security, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Review of International Studies, and handbooks on gender and security and gender and international relations. She coordinates the Political Science doctoral concentration in Feminist Comparative and International Politics at the University of Cincinnati and is Vice President and on the Executive Board of the Committee on the Status of Women of the International Studies Association.
Molli Spalter is a PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at Wayne State University where she serves as the managing editor for Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. Her research interests include contemporary women's literature, affect theory, and feminist social movements.
Meredeth Turshen is a Professor Emerita in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her research interests include international health and she specializes in public health policy. She has written four books: The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), and Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), all published by Rutgers University Press, and Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change (2007; second edition 2019) published by Palgrave Macmillan. She has edited six other books: Women and Health in Africa (Africa World Press, 1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience (Greenwood, 1993), What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (Zed Books, 1998), which was translated into French (L'Harmattan, 2001), African Women's Health (Africa World Press, 2000), The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (Zed Books, 2002), and African Women: A Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She has served on the boards of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, the Committee for Health in Southern Africa, and the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.
Astrid Ulloa, PhD in Anthropology, Full Professor of Geography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her main research interests include indigenous movements, indigenous autonomy, indigenous feminisms, gender, climate change, territoriality, extractivisms, and feminist political ecology. She is the author of The Ecological Native: Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco‐Governmentality in Colombia (2005–2013). Her recent book chapters include: “Indigenous Knowledge Regarding Climate in Colombia: Articulations and Complementarities Among Different Knowledges” (2020), “Reconfiguring Climate Change Adaptation Policy: Indigenous Peoples’ Strategies and Policies for Managing Environmental Transformations in Colombia” (2018), “Feminisms, Genders and Indigenous Women in Latin America” (2018), “La confrontation d'un citoyen zero carbone déterritorialisé au sein d'une nature carbonée locale‐mondiale” (2018). Her recent articles include. “The Rights Of The Wayúu People And Water In The Context Of Mining In La Guajira, Colombia: Demands Of Relational Water Justice” (2020), “Gender and Feminist Geography in Colombia” (2019), “Perspectives of Environmental Justice from Indigenous Peoples of Latin America: A Relational Indigenous Environmental Justice” (2017), “Geopolitics of Carbonized Nature and the Zero Carbon Citizen” (2017). Her current research is about gender and mining, and territorial feminisms in Latin America.
Crystal Whetstone, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. Her dissertation examined the role political motherhood plays in Global South women’s peace movements and women’s postconflict political representation. Her work has been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), Third World Quarterly, and The Conversation.
Rina Verma Williams (PhD Harvard; BA and BS University of California at Irvine) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also Affiliate Faculty in Asian Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching interests include comparative Indian and South Asian politics; religion, law and nationalism; and gender and identity politics. She is the author of Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws: Colonial