PhD Students 2016-17

Sharmila Parmanand

Gates Cambridge International Scholarship Critical inquiry into Anti-Trafficking discourse in the Philippines Supervisor: Dr Tomas Larsson, Department of Politics and International Studies Abstract: My research focuses on the anti-human trafficking ecosystem in the Philippines. In particular, I...

Maimuna Mohamud

Cambridge Trust Africa Scholarship Citizens of the Third Republic? Gendered Performances of Citizenship in the Somali Peace Processes Supervisor: Dr Devon Curtis (Department of Politics and International Studies) Abstract: This project is fundamentally concerned with the construction of political...

Lena Moore

Human, Transhuman, Posthuman: The United States Military and the End of Vulnerability Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies) Abstract: My doctoral research focuses on ways in which, in a United States military context, automation, 'precision,' and healing...

Hakan Sandal-Wilson

The Kurdish LGBTI+ Movement: Strategies and Tactics towards Radical Democracy Supervisor: Dr Ayse Zarakol (Department of Politics and International Studies) E-mail: hhs26@cam.ac.uk Abstract: My doctoral research focuses on the intersection of ethnic, gender, and sexual identities during times of...

Farhana Rahman

Cambridge International Trust and Murray Edwards Scholarship Rickety Boats to Refuge(e): Gender, Identity, and Everyday Negotiations of Rohingya Refugee Women Supervisor: Dr Manali Desai (Department of Sociology) Abstract: Through feminist ethnographic research, my doctoral research seeks to...

Elizabeth Yarrow

Gendered bodies: institutions, sex binarism, and the experiences of gender minority youth within health and education systems Supervisor: Dr Robbie Duschinsky (Department of Public Health and Primary Care) Abstract: My doctoral research focuses on gender variance in childhood and young adulthood in...

Eddie Wei

CSC Cambridge International Trust Scholarship Judges’ Gender and Sentencing in China: A Socio-Legal Perspective Supervisor: Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe (Institute of Criminology) Abstract: Despite frequently voiced concerns about discrimination in the criminal justice system there has been...