Backlash Project

Suzanna Walters is Professor of Sociology and Professor and Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University. Walters's work centers on questions of gender...

Erica Townsend-Bell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Oklahoma State University. She teaches courses in race and gender politics, social movements and qualitative methods, with an...

Shauna Shames is an Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department of Rutgers-Camden. Her primary area of academic interest is American political behavior, with a focus on race, gender, and...

Michelle Rowley is an Associate Professor to the Women’s Studies Department at the University of Maryland. Her research interests address issues of gender and development, the politics of welfare...

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...

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...

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...

Susan Ellison is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wellesley College. Currently, her ethnographic research focuses on conflict as a window onto the entanglements between foreign aid agendas, the...

Jennifer M. Piscopo is Assistant Professor of Politics at Occidental College and co-convener of the Feminist Research Seminar. Her research on representation, gender quotas, and legislative...

Eileen Ying is a second-year undergraduate student at the University of Virginia. She plans to double-major in Political and Social Thought (PST) and English. Eileen currently works as an...

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...

Catalina Vallejo is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Sociology Department at the University of Virginia. Her​ research interests include cultural-economic sociology, political sociology and social memory...

Paromita Sen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Politics Department at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender and social movements, specifically those surrounding...

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...

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...