Current PhD Students
Amelia AmeDela Amemate
Thesis Title: Traditional Cultural Norms, Technology and Gender Relations in Ghana
Supervisor: Dr Holly Porter (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Mamasa Camara
Thesis Title: The Political Economy of Female Circumcision
Supervisor: Professor Adam Branch (Department of Politics and International Studies)
Pauline Eller
Thesis Title: 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)
Stefanie Felsberger
Thesis Title: Global Data Flows and Menstruation
Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Stephanie Foggett
Thesis Title: In Her Own Words: A Study of Women’s Voices in Contemporary White Supremacy and Far-Right Online Hate
Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Anna Forringer-Beal
Thesis title: From White Slaves to Trafficking Victims: How Historic Perceptions of Migrants Shape Contemporary Anti-Trafficking Policy
Supervisor: Professor Jude Browne (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Waruguru Gaitho
Thesis Title: 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)
Hannah Gallagher-Syed
Thesis Title: A Genealogy of Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Ayanda Mhlongo
Thesis title: 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)
Aaron Muldoon
Thesis title: Queer Cultural Memory in Literature, Film and Television since 1999
Supervisor: Professor Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)
Namrata Narula
Thesis title: From Action to Freedom: Exploring the dialectics of feminist agency through classical Indian thought
Supervisor: Professor Ankur Barua (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge)
Ola Osman
Thesis title: Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms
Supervisor: Dr Holly Porter (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Kyla Simone Piccin
Thesis title: 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)
Leah Schmidt
Thesis title: Queer (In)Security: The Production and Practice of Belonging for Canadian 2SLGBTQI+ Military Personnel
Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Reetika Revathy Subramanian
Thesis title: Brides of Drought: Gendered interlinkages between labour and marriage migration of adolescent wives/ workers in India’s climate crisis
Supervisor: Professor Samita Sen (Vere Harmsworth Professor in Imperial and Naval History, Faculty of History)
Emmah Khisa Senge Wabuke
Thesis title: Towards A Gendered Disarmament, Disengagement and Reintegration (DDR) Program in Countering Violent Extremism: The Somalia Conflict and Female Militancy in Al-Shabaab
Supervisor: Dr Holly Porter (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Previous PhD Students
Jules Allen
Thesis Title: Social Norms and Fathers’ Use of Parental Leave Entitlements
Supervisor: Professor Jude Browne (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Advisor: Dr Maria Iacovou (Department of Sociology)
Juliana Demartini Brito
Thesis Title: Queer Temporality in Brazil
Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Julia Doyle
Thesis Title: Navigating Gendered and Racialised Discursive Landscapes as a Refugee Subject: The Genres and Contexts of Syrian Refugee Narratives
Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Mona Hamade
Thesis title: Women and Emiratisation in the UAE Workforce
Supervisor: Professor Jude Browne (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Charmaine Koskinen
Thesis title: Human Trafficking Prevention: 2012 Olympics
Supervisor: Professor Jude Browne (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Kerry McInerney (née Mackereth)
Thesis title: Bodies at their limits: rethinking political violence through women’s hunger strikes
Supervisor: Professor Harald Wydra (Department of Politics and International Studies)
Maimuna Mohamud
Thesis title: Citizens of the Third Republic? Gendered Performances of Citizenship in the Somali Peace Processes
Supervisor: Dr Devon Curtis (Department of Politics and International Studies)
Lena Moore
Thesis title: Posthuman War: Race, Gender, Technology, and the Making of U.S. Military Futures
Supervisor: Dr Lauren Wilcox (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Jenny Carla Moran
Thesis title: Loveability
Supervisor: Professor Sarah Dillon (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)
Naoise Murphy
Thesis title: Queering Irish Women’s Writing in the Twentieth Century
Supervisor: Dr Caroline Gonda (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge)
Helen Mussell
Thesis title: Care and Business: Can there be a Connection?
Supervisor: Professor Tony Lawson (Faculty of Economics)
Sharmila Parmanand
Thesis title: Critical inquiry into Anti-Trafficking discourse in the Philippines
Supervisor: Dr Tomas Larsson, Department of Politics and International Studies
Farhana Rahman
Thesis title: Rickety Boats to Refuge(e): Gender, Identity, and Everyday Negotiations of Rohingya Refugee Women
Supervisor: Professor Manali Desai (Department of Sociology)
Hakan Sandal-Wilson
Thesis title: The Kurdish LGBTI+ Movement: Strategies and Tactics towards Radical Democracy
Supervisor: Professor Ayse Zarakol (Department of Politics and International Studies)
Lisa Vickers
Thesis title: Feminist Political Parties: Sustainability, Longevity, and Impacts
Supervisor: Professor Jude Browne (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Halliki Voolma
Thesis title: Domestic Violence in the context of Human Rights: Women with insecure immigration status exposed to domestic violence in England
Supervisor: Professor Jude Browne (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Eddie Wei
Thesis title: Judges' Gender and Judging in China
Supervisor: Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe (Institute of Criminology)
Monica Wirz
Thesis title: Gendering Executive Selection
Supervisor: Professor Jude Browne (University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)
Elizabeth Yarrow
Thesis title: 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, University of Cambridge)