Steering Committee
Chair
Prof. Dra. Joseli Maria Silva
Joseli Maria Silva is a professor of geography in the postgraduate programme at the State University of Ponta Grossa and Federal University of Paraná in Brazil. She is coordinator of the Group of Territorial Studies and chief editor of the Revista Latino-americana de Geografiae Gênero (Latin American Journal of Geography and Gender). She is one of the founders of the Ibero-Latin American Network for the Study of Geography, Gender and Sexualities. Her
research is focused on the relationship between space, gender and sexualities, with special attention on trans-sexualities. She is a member of the Renascer (Reborn) NGO, which works in support of citizenship and the human rights of LGBT groups. She has edited several books, including Geografias subversivas: discursos sobre espaço, gênero e sexualidades (Subversive Geographies: discourses on space, gender and sexuality), Geografias malditas: corpos, sexualidades e espaços (Cursed Geographies: bodies, sexualities and
spaces), Espaço, gênero e poder: conectando fronteiras (Space, Gender and Power: connecting borders) and Corpos e geografia: expressões de espaços encarnados (Bodies and geography: expressions of embodied spaces).
Department of Geography
State University of Ponta Grossa ans Federal University of Paraná
Ponta Grossa, Paraná
BRAZIL
+55 42 3220-3046
Treasurer
Dr. Ann M. Oberhauser
Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Iowa State University. She received her PhD in Geography at Clark University. As a feminist and economic geographer, her research and teaching focus on gender and globalization, critical development studies, feminist pedagogy, and women in higher education. Oberhauser conducted research on rural economic strategies in the Appalachian region of the U.S. and in sub-Saharan Africa. More recently, she has done work on the sociology of political identities in the U.S. Midwest. She has also collaborated with colleagues on mentoring and the advancement of women and underrepresented groups in higher education. Oberhauser is currently involved with the Status
of Women in Geography Project through the American Association of Geographers (AAG). Her co-edited and co-authored books include Bridging Worlds – Building Feminist Geographies: Essays in Honour of Janice Monk (2022); Feminist Spaces: Gender and Geography in a Global Context (2017); and Global Perspectives on Gender and Space (2014). Oberhauser is a member and serves on the board of several local, national, and international organizations including the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography, the Society for Woman and Geography, and the Children and Families of Iowa organization.
Prof. Dr. Sybille Bauriedl
Europe University Flensburg
Department for Geography
Auf dem Campus 1
24943 Flensburg
GERMANY
Sybille Bauriedl is Professor for Integrative Geography at the Europe University of Flensburg in the far North of Germany, at the Danish Border. In 2017 she was Guest Professor for Geography and Gender Studies at the University of Graz. Since the early 1990s she has been active in teaching, researching Feminist Geography at various Universities and as part of the German, Swiss, Austrian Feminist Geography Working Group. In 2012 she hosted (together with Anke Strüver) the IGU Pre-Conference in Hamburg "Down to Earth: Identities, Bodies and Spatial Scales". Her academic engagement is deeply related to her activist engagement in right to the city groups in her hometown Hamburg, and in climate justice activism. Teaching is focused on development geography, energy geography, political ecology, decolonial geography. Current research projects und publications are related to feminist theory and methodology and deal with decentralized energy transition, with platform urbanism in major cities, and with (post)colonial infrastructures in European port cities.
Ass. Prof. Martina Caretta
Senior Lecturer
Human Geography Department
Lund University,
SWEDEN
Martina Angela Caretta is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography at Lund University, Sweden. She is a feminist geographer researching human-environment interactions with expertise in water, climate change adaptation, extractivism and gender. She carries out research grounded on feminist epistemology prioritizing situated, lived and Indigenous knowledge, epistemic plurality, participatory methodologies, ethics of care and a decolonizing approach. She was one of two
Coordinating Lead Authors of the “Water” Chapter WGII UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report. She was the recipient of American Association of Geographers 2020 Glenda Laws Award. She has carried out extensive fieldwork in East Africa, Latin America and Appalachia, USA. Her work has been published in Gender, Place and Culture; Annals of the AAG, Climate & Development, Landscape Research and Qualitative Research among others.
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Assoc. Prof. Maria Prats
Ferret
Department of Geography
Edifici B
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra
SPAIN
+34 935811514
Maria Prats Ferret is a senior lecturer at the Department of Geography. She is a member of the Geography and Gender Research Group and she is currently Director of the Observatory for Equality at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on geography and gender. Her research interests focus on feminist social geographies and qualitative methodologies. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Reading, Universidade de Lisboa and at CUNY. She currently serves on the editorial board of the journals: Documents d’Anàlisi Geogràfica and Revista Latinoamericana de Geografía y Género and is a past member of the Gender, Place and Culture editorial board. She has published articles in international academic journals and co-authored works in edited collections for international publishers.
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Prof. Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
Research Associate,
Mount Holyoke College,
MA
Institute for Development Studies,
University of Nairobi,
kENYA
Mary Njeri Kinyanjui is a conscientious grassroots person who has devoted her entire life to working and researching communities at the margins of business and society. She has published on women’s movements, the informal economy in Africa, utu feminism, utu ubuntu business models, and how women experience anthropain in their everyday lives. She taught at the University of Nairobi’s Institute for Development Studies for many years. She earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and her master’s from Kenyatta University in Kenya. In 2022, she served as Activist-Scholar in Residence with the Buchanan Initiative for Peace and Nonviolence, Avila University, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. From 2021 to 2022, she taught at the Gender Studies Department at Mount Holyoke College as a visiting lecturer. She also trained as an embedded practitioner in the Africana program at Mount Holyoke College in Spring 2018 and 2019. She has done many research projects and published over five books, journal articles, book chapters, and opinion pieces for Daily Newspapers. She has a book contract with Cambridge Scholar Book Publishing entitled Feminist Grassroots Economies: Beyond Neoliberalism. She has been awarded many fellowships and awards, such as the Bellagio Academic Residency in Italy. She is taking classes in social work at Grand Canyon University.
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Assoc. Prof. Elena Vacchelli
Associate Professor in Gender and Migration
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Greenwich
UNITED KINGDOM
+44 (0)20 8331 8951
Dr Elena Vacchelli is Associate Professor in Gender and Migration at University of Greenwich in London (UK). After obtaining her PhD at the Open University's Geography Department, substantial experience in researching diversity and gender was acquired through ongoing research at European, national and community level. Elena’s work is situated at the interface between critical/feminist geography and sociology, as evident by her publications in the fields of urban, migration and gender studies. Her most recent work has focussed on art-based and digital research methodologies. She is co-founder of a repository for teaching, research and activism making use of participatory and creative approaches for engaging migrant populations, migART (https://migart.bard.berlin). More details of her research/ teaching interests and publications and can be found here: https://www.gre.ac.uk/people/rep/fach/elena-vacchelli
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Dr. Kamalini Ramdas
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
National University of Singapore
SINGAPORE
+65 65166809
Kamalini Ramdas is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. She is a feminist geographer whose research interests include: queer and feminist theory, feminist pedagogy, geography education and LGBTQ+ advocacy research. Kamalini has worked with various groups in the arts and education sectors. She has more than 20 years of experience working with the LGBTQ+ community in Singapore. She is committed to studying how community politics and activism can produce alternative spaces of care and possibility for marginalised groups in society.
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Dr. Karine Duplan
Senior Lecturer
Department of Geography
University of Geneva
SWITZERLAND
+41 22 379 98 94
Karine Duplan is a urban social and cultural geographer dedicated to issues of social inclusion and the right to the city, with specific expertise in gender, sexuality and migration More specifically, she is interested in how the intersectional dynamics of in-/ex-clusion shape the everyday experiences of space and place of marginalised people and communities at different scales, from the body to the globe, and how these experiences are reinforced or fought against by institutional policies and everyday politics. Firmly rooted in feminist geographies, her research aims to critique the neoliberal city, towards greater spatial justice. She is also interested in how knowledge is produced and circulated. Drawing on feminist ethics, her aim is to contribute to reflections on participatory methodologies, as well as on issues related to translation. She is currently a senior lecturer and researcher at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Geneva, where she has been based since 2016. She is a co-founder of the Swiss Feminist Geographies group and member of the editorial board of Geographica Helvetica; of the scientific committee Justice spatiale/Spatial Justice; and of the Gender and Sexuality in Migration research (GenSeM) Sanding Committee at IMISCOE. More details are listed on https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/geo/membres/enseignants/duplankarine/
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Prof. Swagata Basu
Swagata’s research interests are in the areas of Violence against Women (VAW), Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), and issues related to women’s rights to the city. Swagata works closely with women’s organisations that are associated with women's livelihood issues in low-income urban neighbourhoods. Swagata has been a member of the Textbook Development Committee of the National Council of Education Research Training and Central Institute of Hindi. She has contributed to MOOCs in Geography, the epgpathshala project published in national and international journals, and contributed to edited volumes. Swagata has completed two Minor Research Projects as a Co-Principal Investigator funded by the Institute of Eminence, University of Delhi and is currently a team member of the Delhi City Research Team of the GenUrb project based at City Institute, York University, Toronto, Canada. https://genurb.apps01.yorku.ca/about/city-research-teams/delhi/ She is also a trainer/ observer for the UGC Scheme: Capacity Building for Women Managers in Higher Education for the Sensitisation Awareness and Motivation module and the Management Skills Enhancement Modules on Advocacy in Institutions of Higher Education.Her detailed profile can be viewed at https://ssvhapur.ac.in/profile.php?id=27
Former Members
Dr. Orna Blumen
Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel, 31905
ISRAEL
+ 972 4 8240155
Orna Blumen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences, and the MA Program of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Haifa, Israel. She was among the founders of the Israeli Association for Feminist and Gender Studies, serves on the editorial board of Journal of Managerial Psychology, of Migdar (gender): An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal for Gender and Feminist Research, and among the founders of the recently launched journal The Study of Organizations and Human Resource Management Quarterly. She was the co-editor of Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities (Vol.11) –a collection of studies presented in the 2010 meeting of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography. Her research focuses on gender and home-work links, spanning from the investigation of commuting patterns to the study of how workers’ job involvement is perceived in their families. She is currently engaged in research on outdoor physical activity of Arab women, on marriage migration of Arab brides and on how pregnancy is perceived in the workplace.
Prof. Dr. Anke Strüver
Institut für Geographie
Universität Hamburg
Bundesstraße 55
D-20146 Hamburg
GERMANY
0049(0)40 / 42838 - 5210
struever@geowiss.uni-hamburg.de
Anke Strüver is a professor for social geography at the University of Hamburg and studies mutual constructions of socioeconomic, cultural and spatial processes at various scales, yet with the urban as special focus. Her research profile is characterized by a continued and extensive critical study of spatial issues and their adjoining methodological perspectives at the interface between political, social and economic problems. In addition she has long-standing interests in feminist issues, both political and academic, and is an active member of the research network “feminist geographies and new materialism” (funded by the German Research Foundation). Her longstanding research interest is focused on “Performing Spaces – Gender Dynamics, Corpo-Realities and Spatial Structures”. Her thematic publications include the books “Macht Körper Wissen Raum?” (2005) and „Geschlechterverhältnisse, Raumstrukturen, Ortsbeziehungen: Erkundungen von Vielfalt und Differenz im Spatial Turn“ (edited with Sybille Bauriedl and Michaela Schier, 2010) as well as numerous journal acticles.
Prof. Linda Peake
(2016-2020)
Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change
& The City Institute
731 Kaneff Tower
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
CANADA
CANADA
+1 416 736-2100
Linda Peake is Director of the City Institute at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is a feminist geographer with research interests on gendered urban insecurities, particularly as they pertain to the urban global south, and specifically Guyana. In addition she has long-standing interests in urban-based research on women; on whiteness and anti-racist practices; and feminist methodologies, particularly in terms of the work these do in transnational feminist praxis. Her interests in knowledge production also extend to issues of engaging with people experiencing mental and emotional distress and she is currently chair of the AAG task Force on Mental Health. She sat on a number of editorial boards of academic journals including having been the Managing Editor of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography and a founding editor of Social and Cultural Geography. Most recently she has joined the International Advisory Board of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She was the “Social Geography’ editor for the AAG International Encylopedia of Geography and her latest publications include the books Urbanization In A Global Context (edited with Alison Bain, 2017) and Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban (edited with Martina Reiker, 2013).
Assoc. Prof. Marianne Blidon
Institut de Démographie de l’Université
Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne University
90 rue de Tolbiac
75013 Paris,
FRANCE
+33 (0)1 44 07 86 52
Marianne Blidon is an associate professor at the Faculty of Demography, Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne University, France.
She was among the founders of the journal Genre, sexualité & société, serves on the editorial board of Gender, place and culture and of Fennia, and among the founders of the Certificat of gender studies at Paris 1-Pantheon Sorbonne University. She was the co-editor of several issues on gender and on geography of sexualities. Her research focuses mainly on gender and sexualities. Other studies include ethical and methodological issues. She is currently engaged in research on trauma.
Assoc. Prof. Yvonne Underhill-Sem
Development Studies
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
University of Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
Phone: +649 9232311
Yvonne Jasmine Te Ruki Rangi o Tangaroa Underhill-Sem is an Associate Professor in Development Studies in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland. Yvonne is a Cook Island New Zealander with close family ties to Papua New Guinea. She publishes in the areas of gender and development, Pacific development and feminist political ecology. She taught at University of Papua New Guinea and Australian National University before she joined the University of Auckland in 2004. From 1999-2009 Yvonne was the Pacific Regional Co-ordinator for DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) - a global feminist research and advocacy network of women from the global south. She is currently Co-Chair of Oxfam NZ; is a lead researcher focusing on labour markets in the Pacific for the recently established NZ Institute of Pacific Research; and a member of the newly established Pacific Gender Research Advisory Group funded by Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Prof. Yoko Yoshida
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
Nara Women’s University
Kitauoyanishi-machi
Nara 630-8506
JAPAN
+81-742-20-3312
Yoko Yoshida is a professor of human geography at Nara Women’s University, Japan. She and her colleagues established a new study group for gender and space/place within the Association of Japanese Geographers in 2011. Nara Pre-conference of the IGU Commission on Gender and Geography was held on August 2-3, 2013, as a result that she and the members of study group invited a pre-conference. Yoshida investigates the existence of inseparable issues between military/military base and gender, with special focus on the entertainment (so-called red-light) district near the U. S. military base in Japan. Besides she discusses a possibilities of feminist geography and geography of gender in Japan.