Backlash Project

Denise Walsh

Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Co-Director of the PVI Collective

Co-Founder of The Backlash Project

Walsh is an Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender & Sexuality and co-director of the PVI Collective. Her current book project, Nationalizing Rights, is a comparative study of minority...

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Sarah Corning

Sarah Corning is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia. She plans to major in Political and Social Thought and minor in Women, Gender and Sexuality. Sarah currently works...
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Mary Hawkesworth

Feminist Research Seminar Participant

Mary Hawkesworth is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Trained as a political scientist specializing in political philosophy, feminist...
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Brittany Leach

Brittany Leach is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia. Her areas of interest include identity, subjectivity, democracy, contentious politics, sovereignty...
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Hana Nasser

Hana Nasser is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia. Her research interests span Continental political thought, critical theories of race and gender, materialist...
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Shirin M. Rai

Feminist Research Seminar Participant

Shirin M. Rai is Professor in the department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development in...
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Juliana Restropo Sanin

Feminist Research Seminar Participant

Juliana Restrepo Sanin is a PhD candidate in political science at Rutgers University. Her research interests include women’s representation, comparative politics, and Latin American politics. She is...
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