We are a team of researchers from allover – always open for those who want to engage and become part of En-Gender!
Jessica Albrecht
Founder & Editor, Social Media & Blog, Conference Management, Podcast Host
Heya, it’s me, Jessica (she/they). I just finished my PhD in the Study of Religion, looking at the entanglement of feminism and religion / esotericism in colonial Sri Lankan and Indian history (Uni Heidelberg). I am currently working at the FAU University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany.
When I was doing my Masters in Gender History at the University of Glasgow, Anna, me and some other friends had the idea of creating an online journal for sharing our research – and Engendering the Past was born. After a year’s break, I decided to revive it as En-Gender! to create an even greater and broader research community, because I believe that only interdisciplinary research can really bring us two steps forward! Also, I am the one tweeting and annoying you on Instagram and Facebook 😉
PS: as I have been pushed to also share my ongoing work, these are the topics I am working on at the moment: The history of psychology and religion; masculinity in Sri Lanka; the history of awakened womanhood and wokeness from a postcolonial and critical race studies perspective.
Leandro Wallace
Editor, Conference Management, Podcast Host
Hey there! My name is Leandro (él/he/him). I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University. My research focuses on connecting the decolonial/anticolonial work presented in the Colonial Project of Gender, by Prof. O’Sullivan, with the Modern/Colonial System of Gender, by la Maestra Lugones through representation and resistances in/with video games. At the same time, considering broader representation, worldbuilding storytelling and inclusion practices, connecting Gender Studies, History, Game Studies and anti/decolonial thinking.
Being a part of En-Gender Project and its working paper series, Podcast and Annual Conference has meant the possibility to work with, get to know and learn from a multitude of amazing people. As well as the opportunity to put into practice ways of creating safe and inclusive spaces for sharing and connecting.
Ashley Brown
Editor & Conference Management
Hi there! I’m Ashley (she/her) and I primarily look at masculinities present at early modern Scottish universities. I also dabble in medieval masculinities and femininities, and I’ve also looked at religious masculinities in Reformation Scotland. I’m working on my PhD at the University of Glasgow, looking at academic masculinities in the years between 1560 and 1610. I’m also an active blogger with the Glasgow Women’s Library, a manuscript editor, and I run a theatre company with my husband, called Bottoms Up Theatre. I’ve been involved with En-Gender! projects since 2020 and have loved it so much I wanted to become one of the team and help this amazing group!
Dean Leetal
Editor & Conference Management
I recently finished my MA, studying non binary gender representations. I published about transness being at the core of fan fiction, and suggested a change in Butler’s theory. I’ve also published about alternative “activism of care” used by online communities to promote disabiliy justice. These days I am co-authoring a book about the trans hero’s journey. I’m an MA thesis advisor, TA and research assistant, at Kibbutzim College and other academic institutes. My critical theory work has won the Zafrir and the Ze’evi awards. For me research, activism and creative writing are fairly intertwined. I was the first out genderqueer person in my country of origin, organized the first group rights and campaign, and edited a literary zine of non binary authors.
Paridhi Gupta
Editor & Conference Management
Hello everyone, I am Paridhi (she/ her). I have a PhD in Gender Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and did my postdoc at the Institute of Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studes, University of Zurich. My work looks at mobilization practices and modes of organization within feminist protests in India. It makes a methodological intervention into the ways we can study feminist protests and the many lenses we can take to theorize them by combining methods from visual studies and human geography. At the same time, I am also interested in visual cultures in India, especially related to feminist dialogues with public art and thus, public spaces. Currently, I am working on expanding my doctoral work into a broader project. I believe in creating inclusive, interdisciplinary knowledge and writing from a feminist consciousness.
Sayendri Panchadhyayi
Editor
Hi there! I am Sayendri. I have a Ph.D. in Sociology from Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
I am an Assistant Professor at RV University, Bangalore and a Visiting Faculty at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. I am also appointed as an Associate at the Centre for Care, housed within the University of Sheffield, UK. Post-PhD, I was a Research Fellow at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. I am a co-founder of Sabr, and member of International Sociological Association, EASA-AGENET and Centre for Care.
My doctoral thesis stitched together the evocative narratives of the marginalized and stigmatized female care workers in India in-charge of home-care of older people. It casted light on their unique contributions towards ageing, end-of-life care and care paradigm.
I am broadly interested in the areas of health, care, embodiment, lifecourse, STS, and death. My forthcoming work will be published in Taylor & Francis, Edward Elgar Publishing (Elgar Original Reference Series), Springer, Anthropology & Aging and Bristol University Press. You may read more about my work here.
Riddhima Sharma
Editor
Hi! I am a doctoral candidate at Bowling Green State University, and a Project Scientist at the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. I am also the founder of a digital feminist platform, FemPositive. I previously taught courses around gender, law, and public policy at the Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai as visiting faculty and led numerous workshops around gender, digital media, gender-based violence and law in India. Presently, my research lies at the intersections of digital media, feminisms, and critical feminist pedagogy in India.
Past members
Anna McEwan
Kristina Göthling-Zimpel
Billy Wassell
Zaina Mahmood
Náila Neves Gupta
Lucy Threadgold
Nafisa Insan
Marine Gilis
Palak Sharma
Brennan Kettelle
Lea Happ
Emily Green
Current Bloggers
Contributors for Volume 4
Contributors for Volume 3
Olivia Stanek
Rianna Price
Patrick Vernon
Rajdeep Johal
Rebecca L. Anne
Cristiano Cardone
Ashley Thompson
Contributors for Volume 2
Ross Cameron
Hella de Haas
Christoph Wilhelm
Lisa Sophie Fauerbach
Jovana Perovic
Jessica Albrecht
Co-Founders and contributors for Volume 1
Amanda Gavin
Robin Skelton
Amy Watson
Aine O’Malley
Amber Stout
Corinne Groeneveldt
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