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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.

Dr Francesca Lewis
Lecturer
francesca.lewis@york.ac.uk

My specialisms include critical medical humanities; feminist new materialisms; affect theory; queer phenomenology; theories of ontology and ipseity; TV & film, particularly metamodernism; and neuroqueer approaches to madness.

Student Services Administrator 
cws@york.ac.uk

 Student enquiries 
 CWS Associate Staff  

Professor Ellen Annandale
Sociology
ellen.annandale@york.ac.uk

Sociology of health and illness; sociology of gender; gender, occupations and professions 

Miranda Armstrong
Sociology
miranda.armstrong@york.ac.uk

Single motherhood at intersections of 'race', class and geography; Intersectional inequalities; Black women's experiences of family

Dr Siân Beynon-Jones
Sociology
sian.beynon-jones@york.ac.uk

Science and technology studies; reproductive technologies; gender; time; feminist theory

Dr Emma Casey
Sociology
emma.casey@york.ac.uk

Social and cultural history of gender and consumption; Women and gambling; Feminist studies of domestic life and experiences

 

Dr Claire Chambers
English
claire.chambers@york.ac.uk

British and South Asian literature; religion; Muslims; migration 

Dr Sara de Jong
Politics
sara.dejong@york.ac.uk

women's NGOs; gender and development; postcolonial and critical race theory; migration; feminist politics, complicity and co-optation

Dr Anna Einarsdóttir
Management
anna.einarsdottir@york.ac.uk

Gender and sexual minority workers; sexualised and organisational spaces

Dr Naomi Finch
Social Policy and Social Work

Comparative social policy, Gender and the welfare state, Family policy, The Gender division of labour, Work and family balance over the life course, Child and female poverty

Dr Mark Jenner
History and Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies
mark.jenner@york.ac.uk

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

Professor Karen Mumford
Economics
karen.mumford@york.ac.uk

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

Dr Emily Nicholls
Sociology

Gender and identity; Femininities; Consumption and the Night Time Economy; Alcohol and sobriety

Dr Alasia Nuti
Politics
alasia.nuti@york.ac.uk

Political theory; historical injustices and gender; migration and gender; multiculturalism and gender; feminist activism (especially issues of intergenerational solidarity); memory;
pluralism; sexuality; critical race theory

Professor Ruth Penfold-Mounce
Sociology
ruth.penfold-mounce@york.ac.uk

Death Studies; popular Culture and Celebrity, cultural Criminology; pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching)

Dr Amanda Rees
Sociology
amanda.rees@york.ac.uk

Sociology of science; social theory; feminism and science; post-colonialism; science and popular culture

Dr Katy Sian
Sociology
katy.sian@york.ac.uk

Critical race theory; semantics of tolerance and anti-racism 

Professor Vanita Sundaram
Educational Studies
vanita.sundaram@york.ac.uk

Gender and sexuality; gender-based violence; equity issues in education; inclusive/feminist methodology

Professor Merran Toerien
Sociology
merran.toerien@york.ac.uk

Conversation analysis; institutional discourse; health professional-patient interaction; intervening with conversation analysis, qualitative methodology

Honorary Staff  

Dr Joanna de Groot
History
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 Victoria Robinson
Emeritus Professor 
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