Staff at the Centre for Women's Studies
| Name | Research | |
|---|---|---|
| Centre Staff | ||
| Professor Stevi Jackson Director |
Feminist theory, theories of gender and sexuality, women's and family relationships, sociology of childhood. | stevi.jackson@york.ac.uk |
| Professor Gabriele Griffin Chair, Board of Studies |
Women's cultural production; contemporary women's theatre; Women's Studies as a discipline; feminist methodology diaspora and postcoloniality; lesbian writing. Editorial board member Irish Feminist Studies. | gabriele.griffin@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Ann Kaloski-Naylor Lecturer/Admissions Tutor |
Contemporary fiction and culture, with special interests in death, digital texts & popular culture; feminist cultural politics & production; lesbian, bisexual & queer studies; feminist pedagogy & elearning. | ann.kaloski-naylor@york.ac.uk |
| Harriet Badger Administrator |
All enquiries | harriet.badger@york.ac.uk |
| CWS Associate Staff | ||
| Professor the Baroness Afshar OBE Politics |
Development Studies; Women and work in the Third World and in particular in Iran; Islamic ideology and feminism; the relationship between ideology and social and economic change. Joint editor (with Mary Maynard) of Women's Studies at York/Macmillan series and of Routledge's Women and Politics Series. | haleh.afshar@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Trev Broughton English |
Gender in nineteenth-century prose; women's life-writing (biography, autobiography, diaries etc); Victorian masculinities; auto/photography (with Ann Kaloski), The Victorian Governess; Fathers and fatherhood in the Victorian period; letters and gender. | trev.broughton@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Elizabeth Buettner History |
19th and 20th century British history (social, cultural and imperial); colonial South Asia; gender and ethnicity; history of childhood and the family; oral and written personal narratives; memory and commemoration. | elizabeth.buettner@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Joanna de Groot History |
Research interests centre around the intersections of gender, culture and colonialism with other forms of difference and inequality and include, specifically, 19th and 2Oth century women's history; the history of socialist and feminist ideas and movements and Iranian and Middle Eastern Indian history in the 19th and 20th centuries |
joanna.degroot@york.ac.uk |
| Professor Allison Drew Politics |
Social movements and development in Africa; women's movements in Africa and in comparative perspective; South African politics; Algerian politics | allison.drew@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Sue Grace | Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award, 2008 Teaching and learning in Higher Education; reflective accounts of life as academics in relation to the student experience; 19th century criminal history; 19th century social and women's history; 19th century novel and 19th century literature on crime; 20th century feminist criminology. |
sg10@york.ac.uk |
| Professor Hilary Graham Health Sciences |
Health inequalities linked to gender, social class, sexuality, age and disability; women’s poverty; policy impacts on women’s lives and gender inequality; qualitative research | hilary.graham@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Carol Ann Hooper Social Policy and Social Work |
Women and social policy; child abuse and child protection; violence against women; gender, crime and justice | carol-ann.hooper@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Mark Jenner History and Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies |
The social and cultural history of Britain c.1550-c.1780; social history of medicine; history of the body; gender, medicine, religious and political culture in 17th and 18th century England. Currently on the Editorial Board of Urban History | mark.jenner@york.ac.uk |
| Professor Celia Kitzinger Sociology |
Sexuality, gender and talk-in-interaction; childbirth; same-sex marriage; LGBTQI; human rights issues; helplines; any research using conversation analysis with naturalistic data | celia.kitzinger@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Nicola McDonald English |
Cannibalism, confessional discourse, the post-modern middle ages | nicola.mcdonald@york.ac.uk |
| Professor Mary Maynard Social Policy |
Feminist theory and methodology, gender; race and ethnicity; age and ageing; women's studies | mary.maynard@york.ac.uk |
| Professor Sue Mendus Politics |
Moral and political philosophy, Contemporary Liberalism, Kant |
sue.mendus@york.ac.uk |
| Professor Karen Mumford Economics |
My research is concerned with labour economics, and the interface between public policy and labour economics: wage bargaining; industrial disputation; employment dynamics; the relative employment opportunities of men and women; job turnover, tenure and security; training; wage equality; the effectiveness of family friendly work practices; |
karen.mumford@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Linda Perriton York Management School Chair, Board of Examiners |
Human Resource Management, gender in the historical development of management, the history of training and development, feminist perspectives of Human Resource Development |
linda.perriton@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Amanda Rees Sociology |
Sociology of science, social theory, feminism and science; post-colonialism; science and popular culture | amanda.rees@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Vanita Sundaram Educational Studies |
Gender and sexuality, gender-based violence, equity issues in education, inclusive/feminist methodology |
vanita.sundaram@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Robin Woofitt Sociology |
Language and ostensibly parapsychological experiences; the broader sociological analysis of anomalous experiences and marginal states of consciousness; the production of identity and authority in talk, and the relationship between conversation analysis and critical movements within social psychology, such as discursive psychology. | robin.wooffitt@york.ac.uk |
| Honorary Fellows | ||
| Dr Anne Akeroyd Sociology |
Socio-cultural aspects of the body and of health and illness, in particular women's health; gendered aspects of HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa, and related issues of gendered violence and of women's rights; and comparative perspectives on gender, especially in East Asia and Southern Africa | ava1@york.ac.uk |
| Dr Pat Spallone | Women’s Studies; Science, technology, medicine; reproductive politics; biomedical ethics; Gaia theory |