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Lauren Berlant

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Professor of English and Director of the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at the University of Chicago. She writes about politics and emotion in the U.S. since the nineteenth century, from The Anatomy of National Fantasy (1991) and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (1997) to the The Female Complaint: the Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture (2008).   She has also edited a number of works including Intimacy (2000), Our Monica, Ourselves (2001), Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (2004), and the two volume edition of Critical Inquiry, On the Case (2007).

Lisa Duggan

Lisa Duggan is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis in the department of American Studies at New York University.  Her research interests include modern U.S. cultural, social, and political history; history of gender and sexuality; and lesbian and gay studies.  She is the author of Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity (Duke University Press, 2000), The Incredible Shrinking Public: Sexual Politics and the Decline of Democracy (Beacon Press, 2002), and The Twilight of Equality? : Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon Press, 2003) and editor of Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest (New York University Press, 2001).

Fatima El-Tayeb

Fatima El-Tayeb is currently a Mellon Fellow in Transnational Studies at UCLA but usually an Assistant Professor for African American Culture and Film in the Department of Literature at UC San Diego. Originally from Germany, she was active in black, migrant, and feminist organizing there and in the Netherlands. She is a former member of the Amsterdam-based queer of color collective Strange Fruit, co-author of the movie Everything will be fine, and co-founder of the Black European Studies Project. Her first book, published in German, explored the relationship between race and national identity in early 20th century Germany.  Her current one focuses on the racialization of migrants and minorities in contemporary Europe and the queering of ethnicity as a minoritarian counterstrategy.

Amanda Gouws

Professor Amanda Gouws is Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.  She teaches South African Politics, Political Behavior and Gender Politics.  Her research deals with women and citizenship and she is the editor of (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa.  She is also the co-author Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion.  This book received the George Alexander Book Award from the International Society for Political Psychology for the best book in 2004.  Prof Gouws has numerous publications on the national gender machinery in South Africa, women's representation and women's citizenship.  She is a board member of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town and serves on the editorial boards of Feminist Africa, the South African Journal of Higher Education and Politeia.

Shireen Hassim

Shireen Hassim teaches Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has worked on the South African women's movement for several years, and has lectured and published in this field. During 1999, she was a member of the Gender and Elections Reference Group of the Electoral Institute of South Africa, and co-edited the Elections bulletin. She is a member of the Advisory Board of Womensnet, a website for women.  She is the author of “Democratization: A View From Africa,” “Feminism and Democrary: Women Engage in South African State,” and “Voices, Hierarchies and Spaces: Reconfiguring the Women’s Movement in Democratic South Africa.”

Anissa Helie

Anissa Helie, born and raised in Algiers, is the Karl Loewenstein Fellow in Political Science and Jurisprudence at Amherst College.  She is a feminist historian by training and an activist by choice. In 2005 she was a recipient of a research/teaching Ford Foundation Fellowship at the Five Colleges, Inc. in Amherst, MA. She has worked with a wide range of women's groups and human rights groups in various countries, focusing on issues of sexuality, fundamentalisms and reproductive rights.  She is the author of “Holy Hatred” and “Women and Muslim Fundamentalism.”

Josephine Ho

Josephine Chuen-Juei Ho, Professor and Coordinator, Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Taiwan, has been writing extensively to open up new discursive space for gender/sexuality issues.  Her theoretically informed yet accessible books, all written in Chinese, include The Gallant Woman--Feminism and Sexual Emancipation (1994), Gendered Nations--Sexuality, Capital and Culture (1994), Sexual Moods: A Therapeutic and Liberatory Report on Female Sexuality (1996), Radical Sexuality Education: Gender/Sexuality Education for the "New Generation" (1998), and The Admirable/Amorous Woman (1998).  She has since written and edited another eight volumes of Taiwanese gender/sexuality research in sex work studies, queer studies, and transgender studies which greatly enhanced local academic research into marginal gender/sexualities.  She founded and continues to head the Center for the Study of Sexualities at National Central University, Taiwan.

Diane Richardson

Diane Richardson is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at Newcastle University.  She is well established as an international and national authority in the area of the sociology of sexuality, with many related publications. In particular, she has made a significant contribution to three different areas of this body of knowledge: theories of sexual identity; sociological understandings of HIV/AIDS; and feminist accounts of sexuality. Much of her work addresses the newly emergent body of theory on heterosexuality, especially in post modern, feminist and queer theory. Her interests in this area include the relationship between concepts of citizenship and sexuality, identity and social change and the (hetero) sexualisation of the public/private divide.

Carl Stychin

Carl Stychin is Professor of Law and Social Theory at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He also currently serves as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University. He is the author of Law's Desire: Sexuality and the Limits of Justice, A Nation by Rights: National Cultures, Sexual Identity Politics, and the Discourse of Rights and Governing Sexuality: The Changing Politics of Citizenship and Law Reform.  He has also co-edited three collections: Legal Inversions: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Law; Law and Sexuality: The Global Arena; and Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements. He is also the author of numerous periodical articles and book chapters.

Yasmin Tambiah

Yasmin Tambiah is a Senior Research Associate, the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow, the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo. Her recent research projects examine (i) the construction of gender and sexual behaviours in Penal Code changes in Sri Lanka and Trinidad & Tobago, with implications for women and sexually marginalised persons; and (ii) issues of gender-role transformation, sexuality and "national" location relating to armed women and female sex workers in militarized Sri Lanka. She has served on CFLR's Board of Directors, and is a published creative writer. She is currently based at the University of Sydney, working in research development.

Gill Valentine

Gill Valentine is a Professor of Geography and Director of the Leeds Social Science Institute at the University of Leeds. Her research interests include social identities, citizenship & belonging. She has held numerous academic and applied research grants, and is the author of Public Space and the Culture of Childhood, and editor of Key Thinkers on Space and Place. Gill’s research has been recognised by the award of a Philip Leverhulme prize fellowship and the Royal Geographical Society’s Gill Memorial award.

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