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Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
- Director, Center for Arab American Studies/Associate
Professor of Sociology
- University of Michigan-Dearborn, United States
- Research: From Self-Determination to Self
Rule (and Back to Occupation): What Prospects
for Palestinian Women?
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Dr. Meena Acharya
- Resource Person to Women's Studies in Padma
Kanya College in Nepal,
- Tanka Prasad Acharya Memorial Foundation,
Nepal
- Research: Making Markets Work for Women
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Dr. Bolanle Adetoun
- Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development
and Gender Issues (CESDEG), Nigeria
- Research: Fostering Women's Empowerment:
Gender and HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Nigeria
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Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
- Associate Professor, Institute of African
Studies
- University of Ghana, Ghana
- Research: The Socialisation of Young People
and the reproduction and contestation of Patriarchy
in Ghana
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Dr. Kawango Agot
- Project Coordinator, UNIM Project Lumumba
Health Center
- University of Nairobi, Kenya
- Research: Empowering HIV-Positive Widows to
Modify Subordinating Sexual Norms: The Case
of Bondo District, Kenya
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Dr. Mona Ali
- Associate Professor, English Department
- The University of Cairo, Egypt
- Research: New Feminism in the Making: Recent
Trends in Gender Theories: A Reader
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Mr. Amanuel Asghedom
- Head of Planning & Statistics & ACC
- Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of
Energy & Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines,
Eritrea
- Research: The Impact of war on the role of
women
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Dr. Kelly Askin
- J. Skelly Wright Fellow, Visiting Lecturer,
School of Law
- Yale University, United States
- Research: Empowering women Through International
Law and Process
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Dr. Margot Badran
- Professor, Department of Religon
- Northwestern University, United States
- Research: Islamic Feminism in Africa, a Nigerian
Case: Gender Equality and the Empowerment of
Women
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Dr. Isabella Bakker
- Chair, Political Science Department
- York University, Canada
- Research: Governance, Gender and Social Reproduction
in an Era of Intensified Globalization
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Dr. Wendy Chavkin
- Professor, School of Public Health
- Columbia University, United States
- Research: Fertility Decline and the Empowerment
of Women
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Dr. Fanny Mui Ching Cheung
- Chair, Psychology Department
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Research: Work-family balance for women in
Chinese and American societies: Implications
for enhancing women leadership
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Dr. Esther Chow
- Full Professor, Sociology Department
- American University, United States
- Research: Empowering Women in Migration and
Development in China
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Dr. Christina Ewig
- Assistant Professor, Department of Political
Science and Center for Women's Studies
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United
States
- Research: Is Neoliberalism Bad for women?
Gender & the politics of health reform in
Latin America
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Dr. Nicola Gavey
- Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department
- University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Research: Rape and the politics of trauma
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Ms. Pregaluxmi Govender
- Associate, Africa Gender Institute
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Research: Politics and Power: Assessing the
lessons of the first decade of South Africa's
democracy for the empowerment of women nationally
and globally
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Dr. Agnieszka Graff
- Assistant. Professor, American Studies Center
- University of Warsaw, Poland
- Research: Between Politics and Poetics: Rhetorical
Strategies of Modern American Feminism, viewed
from an Eastern European Perspective
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Dr. Lynne Haney
- Associate Director/Professor, Sociology Department
- New York University, United States
- Research: Transnational States of Punishment:
Gender and Incarceration in the East and West
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Dr. Gioconda Herrera
- Director, Gender Studies
- FLASCO, Ecuador
- Research: Gender in Transnational Families:
The Case of Ecuadorian International Domestic
Workers
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Dr. Hella Hoppe
- Visiting Researcher
- Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Germany
- Research: Engendering Globalization: Interlinking
WTO/GATS and Financing for Development
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Ms. Vesna Kesic
- Research Coordinator
- Centre for Women War Victims, Croatia
- Research: The Gender Dimension of Memory in
Transition, Conflict and Reconciliation: Women
Recollecting &Reconstructing Memories
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Dr. Lakshmi Lingam
- Professor, Women's Studies Unit
- Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
- Research: Micro-credit and Women's Empowerment:
Negotiations with Multiple Patriarchies
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Dr. Kamala Liyanage
- Professor, Political Science Department
- University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
- Research: Strategies for Empowering Women
in Local Governance in Sri Lanka: A Comparative
Study Learning from India, USA, Sweden
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Dr. Maria Loenen
- Professor, School of Law
- Utrecht University, Netherlands
- Research: Gender, multiculturalism and human
rights in a comparative and international perspective
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Dr. Monica Maher
- Tutor, Ethics/Ecumenical Studies
- Union Theological Seminary, United States
- Research: Religion as a source of women's
empowerment: gender violence and women's theological
creativity in Latin America
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Ms. Julissa Mantilla
- Professor, School of Law
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru,
Peru
- Research: Sexual Violence against women and
the experience of the Truth Commissions: A Comparative
Study
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Dr. Shanti Parikh
- Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department
- Washington University, United States
- Research: Bargaining with Female Sexuality:
Assessing the age of consent as a feminist strategy
in Uganda
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Dr. Olga Pyshchulina
- Senior Consultant
- National Institute of Strategic Studies, Ukraine
- Research: Trafficking in Human Beings and
Illegal Migration as a security problem
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Dr. Rhoda Reddock
- Head and Professor, Centre for Gender and
Development Studies
- University of the West Indies, Trinidad and
Tobago
- Research: Competing Victimhoods: Feminist
Analyses of Diversity and difference in the
Caribbean
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Dr. Rachel Silvey
- Assistant Professor, Geography Department
- Universityof Colorado, United States
- Research: Gender and Transnational Islam:
Social Networks, Religious Spaces and Indonesian-US
Migration
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Dr. Omar Sougou
- Associate Professor, Literature Department
- Gaston Berger University, Senegal
- Research: Transformational Creativity: Women
Writing Resistance and change
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