Our staff

Centre Staff	Research Interests
Dr Rachel Alsop Director rachel.alsop@york.ac.uk	Contemporary developments in feminist theory; issues of body image (particularly in relation to aesthetic surgery); gender based violence and refugee and migrant women; and girls’ rights.
Dr Boriana Alexandrova Senior Lecturer / Chair Board of Studies boriana.alexandrova@york.ac.uk	Medical humanities; disability theory; modern and contemporary global literatures; contemporary women’s writing and performance; trauma theory and survivors’ narratives; embodiment; feminist and queer art-activism; ethics; literary multilingualism and translation; postcoloniality.
Dr Asha Abeyasekera Lecturer asha.abeyasekera@york.ac.uk	Marriage and kinship; the everyday practices of intimacy and care; and the gendered impacts of global capitalism on women’s homemaking in contemporary South Asia. The gendered dimensions of urban poverty and precarity; the materiality and emotional dimensions of intimate relations and domestic violence; and the creative strategies women use to survive, resist, and flourish even as they claim ethical lives.
Dr Clare Bielby Senior Lecturer clare.bielby@york.ac.uk	Violence, representation and gender; violence, subjectivity and affect/emotion; terrorism and gender; the field of perpetrator studies. History of feminisms, particularly German feminisms; queer studies and feminist queer theory; subjectivity and narratives of the self; gender, sexuality and representation.
Student Services Administrator cws@york.ac.uk	Student enquiries
Dr Joanna de Groot Emeritus Reader joanna.degroot@york.ac.uk	Research interests centre around the intersections of gender, culture and colonialism with other forms of difference and inequality and include, specifically, 19th and 20th-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
Professor Stevi Jackson Emeritus Professor stevi.jackson@york.ac.uk	Feminist theory; theories of gender and sexuality; women's and family relationships; sociology of childhood
Dr Ann Kaloski-Naylor Honorary Fellow ann.kaloski-naylor@york.ac.uk	Feminist crafts and arts activism; digital cultures; human/non-human relationships; religion; creative methodologies.
Professor Alison Phipps Honorary Professor alison.phipps@york.ac.uk	Feminist and intersectional theory; racial capitalism; sexual violence
Professor Victoria Robinson Professor Emeritus vicki.robinson@york.ac.uk	Feminist theory; gender and sexualities (especially heterosexualities); men and masculinities; fashion and footwear cultures; risk sports; debates in women’s, gender and masculinity studies in the academy (especially in Europe); feminist sociology of everyday life