Current PhD Students
![]() | Traditional Cultural Norms, Technology and Gender Relations in Ghana Supervisor: Dr Holly Porter (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies) |
![]() | The Political Economy of Female Circumcision Supervisor: Professor Adam Branch (Department of Politics and International Studies) |
![]() | Unsexed beings: constructing gender, humanness, and agency through the use of the word “unsex” in Late Modern British society and writing Supervisor: Dr Ben Griffin (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge) |
![]() | In Her Own Words: A Study of Women’s Voices in Contemporary White Supremacy and Far-Right Online Hate |
Legal Mobilization by Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Womxn in Kenya and South Africa Supervisor: Dr Holly Porter (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies) | |
![]() | A Genealogy of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies) |
| Exploring gendered embodiment in transgender and gender-diverse adolescents at the intersection of exercise and eating behaviours, social inclusion, and mental health: Towards a desire-centred approach in paediatric gender-affirming healthcare and research Supervisor: Dr Andres Roman-Urrestarazu (Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge) |
![]() | Codes of Life, Codes of Death: Tracing the (Im)possibility of Trans Lives in Algorithmic Assemblages Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies) |
![]() | Exploring historical trauma in South Africa: from the perspective of black South African women Supervisor: Dr Mónica Moreno Figueroa (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge) |
Queer Cultural Memory in Literature, Film and Television since 1999 Supervisor: Professor Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge) | |
![]() | Visions of Unicity and Legacies of Difference: Inequality in the Works of Śaṃkara, Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, and Swami Vivekananda Supervisor: Professor Ankur Barua (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) |
Unsettling Carceral Landscapes of Extraction: An Abolitionist Feminist Analysis of Logging Infrastructure at Ada’isx/Fairy Creek Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies) | |
| PANIC ATTACK: Anxious Futurity, Embodiment, and Disorder in Contemporary Biopolitical Security Politics Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies) |
The Sexually Sociological: Gay Masculinity, Intimacy and the (Un)queer State Supervisor: Dr Christian Sorace (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge) |







