Companion to Feminist Studies

Diane Grossmanreceived 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 Khanreceived 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. Kohleris 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 Longois 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 Marshallis 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 Mhajneis 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 Centering TM, 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.

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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 Rosewarneis 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 Rotramelis 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.