People

Simone Jaeckl, RN, MSN, is a third year PhD student in the School of Nursing at University of Virginia. Her research is situated at the intersection of health, law and gender-based violence with a...

Amy Laboe is a third year doctoral student in Social Foundations of Education.  Previously, she taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in Minneapolis, Minnesota and abroad in Ecuador, Colombia...

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...

Jessica Mazen is a fifth year PhD student in social and quantitative psychology. Broadly, her research focuses on better understanding speciesism, or a set of socially shared beliefs that...

Dana Moyer is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Politics Department. Her research agenda centers on political violence in developing countries, particularly Latin America, in both authoritarian and...

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...

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...

Meredith Powers is a second year doctoral student in Clinical-School Psychology at the Curry School of Education and Human Development. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Meredith worked as a...

Andrea Press, currently William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Media Studies at the University of Virginia, was the founding Chair of the Department of Media Studies and served as the...

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...