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Umme Al‐wazedi is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English and Division Chair of Language and Literature at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois. Her research interest encompasses women writers of South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora, postcolonial and Muslim feminism, and postcolonial disability studies. She has published in South Asian Review and South Asian History and Culture and has also written several book chapters. She coedited a special issue of South Asian Review titled “Nation and Its Discontents” and a book titled Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature (Routledge, 2017) with Madhurima Chakraborty of Columbia College Chicago, Illinois.

Samantha M. Archer received her BA and MA from The University of Texas at Austin and is currently a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. She is a biocultural anthropologist and anthropological geneticist whose work merges the study of contemporary and ancient human DNA with critical queer, feminist, indigenous, and Black science studies. Her article, “Bisexual Science,” cowritten with lab mate and colleague Dr. Rick W.A. Smith, was published in American Anthropologist (2019).

Elisabeth Armstrong is a Professor in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College. She has published two books, Gender and Neoliberalism: The All India Democratic Women's Association and Globalization Politics (Routledge, 2013) and The Retreat from Organization: US Feminism Reconceptualized (SUNY Press, 2002).

Marci Berger, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her areas of interest include public health, health policy, public policy and sexual and reproductive health policy.

Ute Bettray currently teaches (trans)feminisms and (trans)gender studies at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany where is preparing to write her Habilitation titled Literary Female Sexology, 1849–1899. She is also currently preparing an article titled “A Transfeminist Reading of Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind (1978) via Newest German Literature.” Prior to teaching at Humboldt University, Dr. Bettray held an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Lafayette College where she also taught courses such as Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies and Transfeminisms in the Women's and Gender Studies Program. Before coming to Lafayette College, Dr. Bettray had worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of German and Gender Studies at Swarthmore College. She is in the process of publishing two book manuscripts located at the intersections of transfeminism and transnational transfeminism and German Studies. These manuscripts are entitled When Black Feminist Thought Meets Transfeminism: The Works of Angela Y. Davis and Audre Lorde, and Toward a Transnational Transfeminism via Germanic Sexology and Psychoanalysis. Among her latest publications is a book chapter titled “Making the Case for Transfeminism: The Activist Philosophies of CeCe McDonald and Angela Davis” included in an anthology on Embodied Difference (Jamie A. Thomas and Christina Jackson [eds.], Lexington Books, 2018).

Rose M. Brewer, PhD, is an activist scholar and The Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor and past chairperson of the Department of African American & African Studies, University of Minnesota‐Twin Cities. Brewer publishes extensively on Black feminism, political economy, social movements, race, class, gender, and social change. Her current book project examines the impact of late capitalism on Black life in the US. Brewer has held the Sociologist for Women in Society Feminist Lectureship in Social Change, a Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Miami University of Ohio, and was a 2013 Visiting Scholar in the Social Justice Initiative, University of Illinois‐Chicago.

Margaret Campe, PhD, is the Director of the Jean Nidetch Women's Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on college campus sexual assault and the experiences of marginalized populations, domestic violence programming, and research methods. Margaret published an article in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, entitled, “College Campus Sexual Assault and Students with Disabilities” (2019) and is editing a forthcoming textbook, Substance Use and Family Violence, with coeditors Dr. Carrie Oser, and Dr. Kathi Harp (Cognella, anticipated 2021). She is also coauthoring a chapter examining mixed methods and quasi‐experimental designs, for The Routledge Handbook of Domestic Violence and Abuse, with Dr. Diane Follingstad and Dr. Claire M. Renzetti.

Patricia Hill Collins is a social theorist whose research and scholarship have examined issues of race, gender, social class, sexuality and/or nation. Her first book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge), published in 1990, with a revised tenth anniversary edition published in 2000, won the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association (ASA) for significant scholarship in gender, and the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her second book, Race, Class, and Gender 10th ed. (2019), edited with Margaret Andersen, is widely used in undergraduate classrooms in over 200 colleges and universities. Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Routledge, 2004) received ASA's 2007 Distinguished Publication Award. Her other books include Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice (University of Minnesota Press, 1998); From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Temple University Press, 2005); Another Kind of Public Education: Race, Schools, the Media and Democratic Possibilities (Beacon Press, 2009); the Handbook of Race and Ethnic Studies, edited with John Solomos (Sage, 2010); and On Intellectual Activism (Temple University Press, 2012). In 2008, she became the 100th President of the American Sociological Association, the first African‐American woman elected to this position in the organization's 104‐year history. Professor Collins also holds an appointment as the Charles Phelps Taft Emeritus Professor of Sociology within the Department of African American Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Christa Craven is the Dean for Faculty Development and a Professor of Anthropology and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies (Chair from 2012 to 2017) at the College of Wooster. Her research interests include reproductive health and reproductive justice, lesbian/gay/bi/trans/queer reproduction, midwifery activism, feminist ethnography and activist scholarship, and feminist pedagogy. She is the author of Reproductive Losses: Challenges to LGBTQ Family‐Making (Routledge, 2019), Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement (Temple University Press, 2010) and a textbook with Dána‐Ain Davis, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Her professional website is: http://discover.wooster.edu/ccraven.

Danielle M. Currier is an Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Coordinator of Gender Studies, and Director of the Summer Research Program at Randolph College. Her teaching foci are gender, sexuality, family, qualitative methods, and social theory. Her research foci are hookups among college students, violence against women, and gender and sport. She is coauthor of “The Social Construction of Women's Interests in the 2014 and 2010 Midterms” in Political Communication & Strategy: Consequences of the 2014 Midterm Elections (2017). She is author of “Strategic Ambiguity: How the Vagueness of the Term ‘Hookup’ Protects and Perpetuates Hegemonic Masculinity and Emphasized Femininity” in Gender & Society (2013) and “Creating Attitudinal Change Through Teaching: How a Course on ‘Women and Violence’ Changes Students' Attitudes About Violence Against Women” in Journal of Interpersonal Violence (2009).

Dána‐Ain Davis is Director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society and is on the faculty in the PhD program in anthropology and critical psychology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is also Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College. Her work is concerned with how people live policy, inequality, and racism. Her research topics include neoliberalism, poverty, reproduction, domestic violence, and HIV/AIDS. She is the author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU Press, 2019); coauthor, with Christa Craven, of Feminist Ethnography: Thinking Through Methodologies, Challenges and Possibilities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016); coeditor, with Shaka McGlotten, of Black Genders and Sexualities (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012); contributing author to Beyond Reproduction: Women's Health, Activism, and Public Policy by Karen Baird with Kimberly Christensen (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009); and the author of Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (SUNY Press, 2006).

Cynthia Deitch is an Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; of Sociology; and of Public Policy & Public Administration at the George Washington University. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has been teaching a graduate seminar in feminist methodologies for several decades. She has published research on gender and various public policies, on gender and race in the labor market, and on workplace sexual harassment.

Manisha Desai is Head of the Sociology Department and Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her research and teaching areas include gender and globalization, transnational feminisms, and contemporary Indian society. Among her recent publications are Subaltern Movements in India: The Gendered Geography of Struggles Against Neoliberal Development in India (Routledge, 2016) and, with Rachel Rinaldo, guest editor of the special issue of Qualitative Sociology on “Gender and Globalization.”

Valeria Esquivel is Senior Employment Policies and Gender Officer at the International Labour Office, based in Geneva. Before joining the United Nations in 2014, Valeria developed a long academic career as feminist economist, publishing extensively on labor, and macroeconomic and social policies. She coedited Gender & Development’s issue devoted to the Sustainable Development Goals (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2016) and is the editor of the collective volume La Economía Feminista desde América Latina: Una hoja de ruta sobre los debates actuales en la región (ONU Mujeres, Santo Domingo, 2012). Her latest publications have focused primarily on care policies and care‐workers. She coauthored the reports Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2017) and Care work and care jobs for the future of decent work (ILO, 2018). Her current research focuses on the intersections of gender, employment, and macroeconomics.

Sheila Greene is a Fellow Emerita at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland, and former AIB Professor of Childhood Research. She is a cofounder of the TCD Centre for Gender and Women's Studies and cofounder and former Director of the Children's Research Centre. Currently she is a Pro‐Chancellor of the University of Dublin. Her primary interest is in developmental psychology and her publications include The Psychological Development of Girls and Women (Routledge, 2003/2015), Researching Children's Experience (Greene and Hogan, Sage, 2005), Key Thinkers in Childhood Studies (Smith and Greene, Policy Press, 2015), and Children as Agents in Their Worlds (Greene and Nixon, Routledge, 2020).

Diane Grossman received her BA from Vassar College and her PhD in Philosophy from New York University, where she was an Ida Parker Bowne Scholar. She is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Philosophy at Simmons University and Director of the Honors Program. Dr. Grossman has served Simmons as Chair of both departments, as Director of Academic Advising, and as Associate Dean and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Existentialism and the Philosophical Tradition, Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life, and numerous articles and essays on ethics, feminist theory, and cultural studies. In addition, she is part of a cross‐disciplinary research team that studies girls' and women's perceived confidence; the team has published several articles on that subject. Her areas of specialization are continental philosophy, feminist theory, and applied ethics.

Koyel Khan received her doctorate from the Department of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tennessee Wesleyan University. Her research areas are neoliberal globalization, nationalism, gender, and culture.

A. E. Kohler is a medical anthropologist and critical disability studies scholar who focuses on the phenomenological dimensions of intellectual disability as they intersect with systems of health and social inequities.

Gina Marie Longo is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in the Sociology Department. She specializes in the sociology of gender, race and ethnicity, immigration, and digital sociology. Her research focuses on how U.S. citizens negotiate immigration official’s demands that they prove their marriages are authentic to obtain their foreign‐national spouses’ green card.

Gul Aldikacti Marshall is the Chairperson and a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Louisville. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, social movements, politics, and the media. She is the author of the book, Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey: Grassroots Women Activists, and the European Union. Her work has been published in edited volumes and numerous scholarly journals, such as Gender & Society and Social Politics.

Anwar Mhajne is an Assistant Professor at Stonehill College. She is a political scientist specializing in international relations and comparative politics with a focus on gender and politics. Her current research is at the intersection of gender, religion, and Middle Eastern politics. Dr. Mhajne focuses on how Islamic beliefs and institutions in the Middle East structure Muslim women's political understandings, agencies, and opportunities at local, national, and international levels. Due to her political science and interdisciplinary training in gender politics, international relations, and comparative politics, Dr. Mhajne's research strengths lie in the following areas: feminist international relations and security studies; democratization; governance and institutions; civil society and activism; political Islam; Middle East; gender politics; social movements; and regime change.

Gill Wright Miller, Professor of Dance and Women's Studies, Denison University, researches the connection between somatic awareness and meaning‐making through both large‐scale embodied events and individual somatic explorations. Her embodied work involves opportunities to practice new patterns to shift mere “physical experiences” to full‐bodied “somatic activism.” She is the author/editor of many articles on somatics and academia and the text Exploring Body–Mind Centering: An Anthology of Experience and Method (North Atlantic Books, 2011). More recently, she was invited to speak about practice‐based research for Cultivating Equity & Access Across Difference: Dance Education for All in 2017; invited to speak and conduct workshops on the intersection of Body–Mind CenteringTM, Somatics, and Women's and Gender Studies for Encontro International de Prácticas Somáticas e Dança: Campus Brasília of Instituto Federal de Brasília in Brasilia, Brasil in 2018; and was a featured presenter for “Be(Com)ing the Change We Seek” at Somatische Akademie in Berlin, Germany in 2019.

Nancy A. Naples

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Claire M. Renzetti, PhD, is the Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair for Studies of Violence Against Women, and Professor and Chair of Sociology, at the University of Kentucky. For more than 30 years, her work has focused on the violent victimization experiences of socially and economically marginalized women and girls. In addition to editing the “Gender and Justice” book series for University of California Press, she is editor of the international and interdisciplinary journal Violence Against Women, and coeditor of the “Interpersonal Violence” book series for Oxford University Press. She has written or edited 26 books as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles based on her own research, which currently includes an evaluation of a therapeutic horticulture program at a battered women's shelter and studies that explore religiosity and religious self‐regulation as protective and risk factors for intimate partner violence perpetration. Her scholarship and activism on behalf of abused and exploited women and girls has received national recognition with various awards from professional organizations, service agencies, and community groups.

Lauren Rosewarne is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Lauren is a political scientist specializing in gender, sexuality, and the media. She is the author of 11 books as well as many articles, chapters, and commentary pieces. For more information: www.laurenrosewarne.com.

Ariella Rotramel is the Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies at Connecticut College, and received a PhD in Women's and Gender Studies from Rutgers University. Rotramel's research encompasses social movements, labor organizing, and queer and sexuality studies. Rotramel's book, Pushing Back: Women of Color–Led Grassroots Activism in New York City, examines women of color‐led organizing in contemporary New York City around issues of housing, the environment, and labor.

Anne Sisson Runyan, PhD in International Relations, Professor of Political Science, and Affiliate Faculty and former Head of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, is among the progenitors of and eminent scholars in the field of feminist world politics. Her authored, coauthored, and coedited books include Global Gender Politics (Routledge), Global Gender Issues (Westview Press), Gender and Global Restructuring (Routledge; third edition in progress), and Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America (Ashgate, 2013). She is currently writing a book on gendered nuclear colonialism and recently guest edited and contributed an article on this subject to a special issue of the International Feminist Journal of Politics, for which she served as an associate editor, on “Decolonizing Knowledges in Feminist World Politics.” Other recent publications have appeared in Critical Studies on Security, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Review of International Studies, and handbooks on gender and security and gender and international relations. She coordinates the Political Science doctoral concentration in Feminist Comparative and International Politics at the University of Cincinnati and is Vice President and on the Executive Board of the Committee on the Status of Women of the International Studies Association.

Molli Spalter is a PhD candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at Wayne State University where she serves as the managing editor for Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts. Her research interests include contemporary women's literature, affect theory, and feminist social movements.

Meredeth Turshen is a Professor Emerita in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her research interests include international health and she specializes in public health policy. She has written four books: The Political Ecology of Disease in Tanzania (1984), The Politics of Public Health (1989), and Privatizing Health Services in Africa (1999), all published by Rutgers University Press, and Women's Health Movements: A Global Force for Change (2007; second edition 2019) published by Palgrave Macmillan. She has edited six other books: Women and Health in Africa (Africa World Press, 1991), Women's Lives and Public Policy: The International Experience (Greenwood, 1993), What Women Do in Wartime: Gender and Conflict in Africa (Zed Books, 1998), which was translated into French (L'Harmattan, 2001), African Women's Health (Africa World Press, 2000), The Aftermath: Women in Postconflict Transformation (Zed Books, 2002), and African Women: A Political Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She has served on the boards of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars, the Committee for Health in Southern Africa, and the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health Policy.

Astrid Ulloa, PhD in Anthropology, Full Professor of Geography at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her main research interests include indigenous movements, indigenous autonomy, indigenous feminisms, gender, climate change, territoriality, extractivisms, and feminist political ecology. She is the author of The Ecological Native: Indigenous Peoples' Movements and Eco‐Governmentality in Colombia (2005–2013). Her recent book chapters include: “Indigenous Knowledge Regarding Climate in Colombia: Articulations and Complementarities Among Different Knowledges” (2020), “Reconfiguring Climate Change Adaptation Policy: Indigenous Peoples’ Strategies and Policies for Managing Environmental Transformations in Colombia” (2018), “Feminisms, Genders and Indigenous Women in Latin America” (2018), “La confrontation d'un citoyen zero carbone déterritorialisé au sein d'une nature carbonée locale‐mondiale” (2018). Her recent articles include. “The Rights Of The Wayúu People And Water In The Context Of Mining In La Guajira, Colombia: Demands Of Relational Water Justice” (2020), “Gender and Feminist Geography in Colombia” (2019), “Perspectives of Environmental Justice from Indigenous Peoples of Latin America: A Relational Indigenous Environmental Justice” (2017), “Geopolitics of Carbonized Nature and the Zero Carbon Citizen” (2017). Her current research is about gender and mining, and territorial feminisms in Latin America.

Crystal Whetstone, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. Her dissertation examined the role political motherhood plays in Global South women’s peace movements and women’s postconflict political representation. Her work has been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics (IFJP), Third World Quarterly, and The Conversation.

Rina Verma Williams (PhD Harvard; BA and BS University of California at Irvine) is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also Affiliate Faculty in Asian Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching interests include comparative Indian and South Asian politics; religion, law and nationalism; and gender and identity politics. She is the author of Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws: Colonial Legal Legacies and the Indian State (Oxford University Press, 2006). Her current research focuses on women's participation in religious nationalist political parties in Indian democracy.

Bronwyn Winter is Professor of Transnational Studies at the University of Sydney. Her publications include September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (coedited with Susan Hawthorne, Spinifex Press, 2002); Hijab and the Republic: Uncovering the French Headscarf Debate (Syracuse University Press, 2008); and Women, Insecurity and Violence in a Post‐9/11 World (Syracuse University Press, 2017). Her most recent publications include the coedited Global Perspectives on Same‐Sex Marriage (with Maxime Forest and Réjane Sénac, Palgrave, 2018), and Reform, Revolution and Crisis in Europe (with Cat Moir, Routledge, 2019), and she is a contributing advisory editor of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies (2016).

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