School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Supervision of research students (PhD)

• Amira Ahmed, “Underprivileged Hierarchies” Paid household workers in the migration context: migrant women domestic workers in contemporary Egypt (COMPLETED)
• Henriette Gunkel, ‘The cultural politics of female same-sex intimacy in post-apartheid South Africa’ (COMPLETED)
• Micaela Told, ‘A Gender Perspective on Transnationalism of the Sri Lankan Diaspora Communities in Germany – Influence on the Ethnic-Nationalist Conflict and Peace-Building in Sri Lanka’ (COMPLETED)
• Ulrike Vieten, Situating Cosmopolitanisms: Notions of the other in two western  academic discourses on cosmopolitanism (COMPLETED)
• Diana Yeh, Re-imagining (British)-Chineseness: Transnationalism, diaspora and cultural production (COMPLETED)
• Mastoureh Fathi, Education & Social Mobility: The Subjective Experience of Iranian Women Doctors in the UK
• Rumana Hashem, Gender and armed conflict: the case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts
• Nicola Samson, Narratives of Women’s Belonging: Life Stories from an East London Street
• Bahar Taseli, Representations of Collective ‘Self and ‘Other’ in Turkish Cypriot Print Media Discourse
• Michaela Told, A Gender Perspective on Transnationalism of the Sri Lankan Diaspora Communities in Germany

• Current research: Intersectional Politics of Belonging

 

All publications post 2001:

Special Publications:

“Interview with Professor Nira Yuval-Davis: After gender and Nation”, in Studies of Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol.9,1:128-138, May, 2009

"Conversation with Founding Scholars of Intersectionality: Michelle Fine, Kimberle Grenshaw, Nira Yuval-Davis" in Michele Trace Berger & Kathleen Guidroz, (eds.), The Intersectional Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class and Gender, University of North Carolina Press

 

Monographs:

Forthcoming:

Intersectional Politics of Belonging London: Sage  (2010)

Chapters in books:

“Nationalism, Feminism & Gender Relations”, in J. Hutchinson & M. Guibernau (eds.), Understanding Nationalism, Polity Press, 2001, pp.120-141

"Citizenship and Anti-Racism" in F. Anthias & C. Lloyd, Rethinking Anti-racism, Routledge 2001

“The Narration of Difference: Cultural Stuff, Ethnic Projects and Identities” in M. Kohli & A. Woodward (eds.), Studies in European Societies, Routledge 2001, pp.59-70

"The Contaminated Paradise" in N. Abdo & R. Lentin (eds), Women & the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation, Oxford: Berghahan Press, 2002, pp.251-261

"Conclusion" in Ephraim Nimni (ed.), The Challenge of Post-Zionism, London: Zed Books, 2002, pp.182-196

“Belonging: from the Indigene to the Diasporic”, in Umut Ozkirimli (ed.), Nationalism and its futures, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2003, pp. 127-144

“Gender, the nationalist imagination, war and peace” in W. Giles & J. Hyndman (eds), "Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones". , Berkley: The University of California Press, 2004

“Borders, boundaries and the politics of belonging” in S. May, T. Modood & J. Squires (eds.), Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 214-230

 “Introduction” (with A. Imam), in A. Imam & N. Yuval-Davis (eds), Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms, London: WLUML, 2004

“Jewish Fundamentalisms and Women”, in A. Imam & N. Yuval-Davis (eds), Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms, London: WLUML, 2004

 “Human/Women’s rights and feminist transversal politics”, in Myra Marx Ferree  and Aili Mari Tripp (eds.), Transnational Feminisms:

Women’s Global Activism and Human Rights, New York:, New York University Press, 2006

“Introduction: Situating the politics of belonging” (with K.Kannabiran & U. Vieten) in N.Yuval-Davis, K. Kannabiran & U. Vieten (eds), Situating the Politics of Belonging, London: Sage, 2006

“Intersectionality, citizenship and contemporary politics of belonging’ (2007), in J. Bennett(ed.), Scratching the Surface: Democracy, Traditions, Gender, Lahore, Pakistan: Heinrich Boll Foundation, pp.7-22

“Gender, globalisation and the ethics of care’, Epilogue in Gender Identity in a Globalized Society, Madrid: Social Trends Institute, 2008

“Identity, citizenship and contemporary secure, gendered politics of belonging”, A. Denis & D. Kalekin-Fishman (eds), The ISA Handbook in Contemporary Sociology, London: Sage

“Nationalism, Multiculturalism, Identity and Belonging” In Anders Neergaard (Ed.), European perspectives on exclusion and subordination: A Political economy of migration, pp.329-343. Maastricht: Shaker, 2009

Forthcoming:

“Beyond the Recognition and Re-distribution Dichotomy: Intersectionality and Stratification”, in Helma Lutz (ed.), Celebrating Intersectionality? (in German & English)

“Idenity, performance & social action: participatory theatre among refugees” (with E. Kaptani) in M. Wetherell (ed.), Identity and Social Action, London: Palmgrave

“Shooting & crying: Zionism, anti-Semitism and the Israeli existential anxiety”, in Keren Or Schlesinger, Gadi Algasi, Hana Herzog & Yaron Haezrakhi (eds), a memorial volume for Barukh Kimmerling, Jerusalem, Magnes (in Hebrew)

“Care, globalisation and belonging”, in Martyn Barrett, Chris Flood and John Eade (eds.), Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars

Journal articles:

“Memorializing the Holocaust in Britain” (with M. Silverman),  Ethnicities, vol.2, no.1 March 2002, pp.107-123

"Imagined Border and Boundaries: A Gendered Gaze" (with M. Stoetzler), European Journal of Women's Studies, August 2002

"Standpoint Theory, Situated Knowledge & the Situated Imagination" (with M. Stoetzler), Dec 2002, Feminist Theory, vol.3. no.3. pp.315-334

“Nationalist Projects and Gender Relations” in Croatian Journal of Ethnology and Folklore Research 40/1, April 2003, pp.9-36

 “Asylum & Human Security”, Mediactive, 2005, no. 4, pp.38-55

“Secure Borders – White Haven: The White paper and the gendered politic s of migration and belonging” (with Floya Anthias and Eleonore Kofman), Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2005

“Intersectionality and gender mainstreaming”, Swedish Journal of Gender Studies (in Swedish) Kvinno-vetenskaplig tidskrift 2-3.05 pp.19-30, 2005

“Intersectionality and feminist politics’, European Journal of Women Studies, vol. 13(3):193-210, 2006

“Racism, cosmopolitanism and contemporary politics of belonging, Soundings, 2005

“Belonging and the politics of belonging” in Patterns of Prejudice, 40(3):196-213, 2006

“Intersectionality and feminist politics”, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 13(3):193-209, 2006

“Care, globalization and belonging”, Danish Journal of Women’s Studies, 2006 (in Danish)

“Participatory theatre as a research methodology” (with Erene Kaptani), Sociological Research On Line, vol. 13, no. 5, 2008

“ ‘Doing’ Embodied research: participatory theatre as a sociological research tool”, in Qualitative Researcher  (with E. Kaptani), (on line), no.9, Sept 2008

“Intersectionality, citizenship and contemporary politics of belonging”, CRISPP (Contemporary Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, special issue on Contesting Citizenship, 2009

“Women, Globalisation and Social Change”, Asia Insight, No. 2, 2009

“Cosmopolitan Politics of Belonging” ("Politik der Zugehörigkeit"), in Das Argument 282 (4/2

009) Ringen um Weltbürgerrechte, no. 282: 595-605, translated by Armin Kuhn and Daniel Fastner (in German)

“Women, Globalization and Contemporary Politics of Belonging”, Gender, Technology and Development, 2009, (also published in Chinese in the Journal of Thinking(Sixiang Zhanxian), vol.5,

Forthcoming:

“Theorizing Identity: beyond the ‘self’ and ‘other’ dichotomy”, Patterns of Prejudice, July 2010

Edited Books and special issues of journals:

Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms edited with A. Imam, WLUML, 2004

Boundaries, Identities and Borders, special issue of the journal Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 40(3), July 2006, edited with K. Kannabiran & U. Vieten,

Situating the Politics of Belonging, edited with K. Kannabiran & U. Vieten, London: Sage, 2006

Framing gendered identities: local conflicts/global violence, a special issue of the journal International Forum of Women’s Studies, vol.29, no.5, 2006, edited with Suruchi Thapar & Karen Morgan

Other publications:

“Contemporary Agenda for the Study of Ethnicity” in Ethnicities, vol.1 no.1 April 2001 pp.11-13

A response to the Home Office White Paper 'Secure Borders - Safe Haven' (with F. Anthias and E. Kofman)

'BoundarIes, Borders: the Gendered Gaze', in the conference papers 'Women and borders', Centre for Borders Studies, University of Johaansen, Finland, 2002

“Visit to North Tel-Aviv’ Israel, January 2002, in Soundings, 20 Summer 2002, pp.21-30

“Neo-Liberalism, Militarism and Xenophobia: Some Implications for the Gendered Politics of Belonging’ in WIDE Bulleting: People Moving to the Right: Where Lie the Alternatives for Transnational Feminism?, January 2003

Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat (with other members of the International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat team). December 2003

“Preface” to the book by Tijen Uguris, Space, Power and Participation, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004

“Belonging is multi-layered’ in Connections, Quarterly from the Commission for Racial Equality, Winter 2004/5

 “Racism, cosmopolitanism and contemporary politics of belonging”, Soundings, no 30, summer 2005 pp.166-178

“zionism, anti-Semitism and the struggle against racism”, Soundings, 2007, no. 36:122-133

Conference Papers:

'Rethinking Multiculturalism: a critique of Bhiku Parech', Plenary speaker at the conference on Multiculturalism at the University of Westminster, London, 27 March, 2001

'New Directions in the Politics of Belonging', a public lecture at Ben-Gurion University, Israel, 17 April, 2001

'Belonging/s: From the Indigene to the Diasporic', Keynote presentation in a conference on New Directions in Nationalist Thought', Bilgi University, Istanbul, 11 May, 2001

'Sociological input to global anti-racist activism' NGO Forum, UN World Conference Against Racism (WCAR), Durban, South Africa, 27 August, 2001

'WCAR and the Politics of Belonging', British Sociological Association Conference on Racism, London University, 14 September, 2001

'Women and Peace Activism', Facilitator and Discussant presentation at the conference Women Waging Peace, Harvard University, November 2, 2001

'Gendered Borders and Boundaries: a Situated Gaze', Keynote presentation, conference on Women, Indigenous People, Borders and Boundaries, University of Johaansu, Finland, 18 November, 2001

'Gendered Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging', public lecture, Women's Studies, University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, 12 January, 2002

'Multi-layered Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging', Departmental seminar, Dept of Sociology, Haifa University, 16 January 2002.

'The intersection of citizenship, identity and difference in contemporary Britain', seminar series on Contemporary Governance in Britain, New College, Oxford, 21 February 2002.

'Women as Embodiments of War and Peace', opening presentation at the day conference on Women, Violence, War, Gender Institute, Cambridge, 9 March 2002.

'Borders, Boundaries and the Politics of Belonging', Keynote opening address at the conference Unsettling Imagi(nations): Towards Re-configuring Borders, Canadian Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, Vancouver, 22 March, 2002.

'Cultural Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging', Keynote opening address at the conference Gender and Cultural Citizenship, University of California in Santa Cruz, 16 April, 2002.

‘”National honour” and the human rights of women’, Keynote presentation at the conference Nationalism and Human Rights of ASEN (Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism), London School of Economics, London, 26 April, 2002

‘Gender and Nation – a European Perspective’, Opening lecture at the European Women’s School, Dubrovnik, 18 May, 2002.

‘Intersectionality: Gender, Race & Class revisited’, panel on Gendered Racisms, International Sociological Association Conference, Brisbane, 12 July 2002.

‘Women and Nationalism’ Public Lecture at the Centre for Ethnicity and Nationalism, National University of Mexico, 13 September, 2002

‘Secure Borders – Safe Haven: The White paper and the gendered politic s of migration and belonging’ paper presented at the conference on the White Paper, BSA Race & Ethnicity Group, City University, 5 October 2002

‘Women, Citizenship & Migration’, a plenary presentation at the conference City of Women, Ljublijana, 15 October, 2002

‘Globalization, Jewish Fundamentalisms and Women’, panel on Fundamentalisms and Globalisation, AWID (Association of Women In Development) conference on Rethinking Globalisation, Mexico, 15 September 2002

‘Neo-Liberalism, Militarism and Xenophobia: Some Implications for the Gendered Politics of Belonging’, Keynote presentation at the

WIDE conference: People Moving to the Right: Where Lie the Alternatives for Transnational Feminism?, Brussels, 3 November 2002

‘Identity, Citizenship and contemporary gendered Politics of Belonging’ Public Lecture at the University of Toronto, 5 February 2003

‘Women, Human Security and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, public lecture at the Graduate Studies Centre, City University of New York, 13 February, 2003

‘Borders, Boundaries and the Gendered Politics of Belonging’, Public Lecture at the Women’s Studies Department, Rutgers University, 17 February 2003–10–24

‘Borders, Boundaries and the Gendered Politics of Belonging’, Public Lecture at the Haven Centre for Critical Theory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “20 February 2003

‘Gender and nationalisms’, seminar at the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 22 February 2003

‘Women, Citizenship and contemporary Politics of Belonging’, a plenary presentation at the conference on Gender, Citizenship and Civil Society, a day conference at the Women and Gender Relations Institute, University of Warwick, 3 March 2003 

‘Intersectionality – reinventing the wheel?’ a paper presented at the ESRC seminar series on Gender, Globalisation and Governance, University of Warwick, 24 Match, 2003

‘Multiculturalism, Diversity and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, Public lecture at the University of Munster, April 15, 2003

‘Standpoint Theory, Situated Knowledge and the Situated Imagination’, Public Lecture, University of Hanover, April 18, 2003

‘Human Security, Human Rights and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, public lecture at the Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Ruhr, Bochum, 30 April, 2003 [also recorded for their distant learning course in Women’s Studies]

‘Nationalism, Racism and Gender Relations’, Introductory lecture at the Workshop on Gender, Transnational Migration and the Politics of Belonging, University of Ruhr, Bochum, May 16, 2003

‘Borders, Boundaries and the Situated Imagination’ Public Lecture at the University of Oldenburg, 20 May, 2003m [also recorded for the distant learning course in Women’s Studies of the University of Ruhr, Bochum]

‘Power and Responsibility – a Jewish Feminist Perspective’, Keynote lecture at the European conference of Jewish Feminists, Beit Deborah, Berlin, 22 May, 2003

‘Women and International Migration’ Day workshop for the Women’s Studies Summer School at the University of Basel, 5 September, 2003

‘Women, Human Rights and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, Keynote presentation at the ESRC Day Conference on Women and Global Violence,, University of Bristol, 5 October, 2003

‘Globalization, Cyberpower and the New Governance of War’, panel presentation at the conference Smart Bombs Dumb Wars, 8 November 2003, UEL/Inst of Education

‘Gender and Diversity’, a European workshop at the University of Utrecht, 14-16 Nov 2003

‘Human Security and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’ – public lecture as well as position paper on the ‘Quality of contemporary social life’ theme for the ISA 2006 conference, University of Freiburg 28 Nov-1 December 2003

‘Human security, women’s rights and feminist Activism’, Rockfeller Seminar on Human Security, Gender and Globalisation, City University of New York, 18 February, 2004

‘Gender, sexualities and the BJP nationalist project at the Gujarat riots’ panel on the gendered effects of the Gujarat riots’ at the NGO Forum of the UN Status of Women annual conference, New York, 6 March 2004

‘Intersectionality’, keynote presentation at the European network conference on Intersectionality, Copenhagen, 24 March 2004

‘Gender and violence’ panel presentation at the conference on The future of Women at the 21st Century,  Kennedy School, Harvard, 5 May 2004

‘Human rights, human security and contemporary gendered politics of belonging’ Keynote lecture at the Research Council conference of the International Sociological Association. Ottawa University, 27 May 2004

‘Women, citizenship and contemporary politics of belonging’, panel presentation at the annual conference of the National Association of Research on Women, Washington DC, 6-7 June 2004

A ‘3 lecture series at the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol on ‘Contemporary Politics of Belonging’ (15,22,29 June 2004):

 a) on British borders and boundries;

b) in relation to human rights;

c) in relation to asylum and human security

‘Tongue-tied: Women and Censorship’, debate of the month panel at the Nehru Centre, London, 27 July 2004.

‘Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, opening address at the Interim conference of the RC05 & RC32 of the International Sociological Aassociation, London 25-27 August 2004

‘Human Rights and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, Keynote address at the launch event of the AHRB Research Centre on Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent, 24 September, 2004

 ‘British politics of belonging and ‘the death of multiculturalism’, paper presented at the conference Women and Gender in Contemporary Europe, Rutgers University, 1-2 October, 2004

‘Identity, Citizenship and Contemporary Secure Gendered Politics of Belonging’, keynote presentation at the SARE Congress on Citizenship, Bilbao, 11 November 2004 

‘Intersectionality and gender mainstreaming’ Keynote lecture at the Intersectionality conference of the Swedish Gender Studies Organization, Norrkoping, 4 February 2005

‘Racism and Cosmopolitanism’, public lecture organized by the Agora Thinktank, Stockholm, 5 February 2005

‘A more inclusive citizenship: the road a head’, a panel discussion organized by the ESRC Identities Programme and the Hansard Society, 23 June, 2005

‘Gender and Nation;, a public lecture to mark the publication of the Hungarian translation of Gender and Nation, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest, 26 October, 2005

‘Women, citizenship and belonging’ a keynote address at the conference on ‘Traditional societies and democracy’, organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation in Lahore, Pakistan, 12 December 2005

‘After 7/7’ a panel discussion organized by the BSA Race Forum at the launch of the Xenox Research Centre at Goldsmith College, London, 15 February 2006

’Integration and belonging of migrant women in Europe’, a keynote address at the Institute of Gender and Migration, Intercollege University of Nicosia, 4 April 2006

‘Religious identities, fundamentalisms and belonging’, a keynote address to the in-training seminar of Joseph Roundtree Foundation staff members and trustees, York, 14 April 2006

’Citizenship, governability, diversity and social exclusion’, an opening address of the semi-plenary 4 days symposium on the subject at the ISA congress, Durban, 24 July 2006

‘Intersectional feminisms’, an ‘international celebrity lecture’ at the seminar on Recent Feminist Theory at the NOVA/ISF Institute at the University of Oslo, 5 October, 2006

‘Gender, fundamentalisms and secularisms’, Keynote lecture at the international conference on Gender and Religion in Global Perspectives’ at the University of Copenhagen, 28 October, 2006

‘Intersected Belonging/s’, public seminar at CEDREF, University of Paris, 8 December 2006-09-28

‘Identity, Identity politics and the constructionism debate’, BSA Annual Conference, UEL, April 2007

‘Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging’ public lecture, the University of Roskilde, Denmark, 19 April, 2007

‘Intersectionality and Mainstreaming’ a public lecture, University of Aalborg, Denmark, 24 April, 2007

‘Globalisation, belonging and the ethics of care’ departmental seminar, University of Aalborg, Denmark, 26 April, 2007

‘Ethnicity, gender and everyday life’, an opening lecture of the Summer School Russia in Europe, a cross-border graduate school,

Mekrijärvi Research Station, Ilomantsi, Finland, 14 June 2007

‘Nationalism, belonging, globalization and the ethics of care’, opening keynote presentation at the conference Nationalism and national identities: multidisciplinary perspectives, university of Surrey, 12-13 June 2007

‘Boundaries, borders and the politics of belonging’, a public lecture at the Kunthaus Museum, Graz, Austria at the opening of their exhibition ‘Volkgarten: the politics of belonging’, 3 October 2007.

‘The political culture of existential anxiety’, plenary lecture at the Barukh Kimmerling Memorial Conference, Van Lir Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 10 Dec 2007.

‘Women, globalisationand social change’, keynote presentation at the Sino-Nordic Women’s Studies Conference, Kunmin, China, 8 November 2008

‘Intersectionality and stratification’, keynote presentation at the conference ‘Celebrating Intersectionality?’, University of Frankfurt, 22 Jan 2009

‘participatory theatre as a feminist research methodology’ keynote presentation at the international conference on Feminist Research Methods, University of Stockholm, 2 February, 2009

‘Identity performace and social action: participatory theatre among refugees’, Centre for Refugee Studies, Oxford University, 18 February 2009

‘Intersectionality and Belonging’ seminar at the Monk Centre for Political Theory, University of Toronto, 27 February, 2009

‘Identity performace and social action: participatory theatre among refugees’, public lecture at the University of Toronto, 27 February 2009

‘the intersection of gender, ethnicity and nationalism in Israel’, Centre for Israeli Studies, Brandeis University, Mass., USA, 3 March, 2009

‘Intersectionality and Belonging’, public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Vienna, 24 March, 2009

‘Israel, the Palestinians and the film ‘Encounterpoints’’, public lecture at Circomedia, Bristol, 29 Apil, 2009

‘Cosmopolitanism and contemporary politics of belonging’, Centre for Cosmopolitanism Studies, Manchester Univeristy, 5 May 2009

‘Women, Migration and Cotemporary politics of belonging in Europe’, opening address at the annual day ‘Women for Europe (Donne per l'Europa)’ at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Turin, Italy, 27 May, 2009

‘Women and Contemporary Politic of Belonging’ Keynote presentation at the Gender Happening festival in Berlin, organized by the Gunda-Werner-Institut für Feminismus und Geschlechterdemokratie in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 18 June, 2009

‘Identities as Narratives’ at the Vilnius Summer School for the Nordic and East European Studies,  6 July, 2009

'Identity,Belonging and the question of Care', plennary presentation at the conference Gendering East West, University of York, 12 July 2009

‘Diasporic spaces and differential racisms: Appreciating Avtar Brah as a colleague and friend since 1974’, Avtar Brah’s Retirement Colloquium, Birkbeck College, 15 July 2009

‘Intersectionality and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, Presidential Panel speaker at the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, 4 August 2009

‘Women, migration and contemporary politics of belonging’, opening seminar in the series on Women, Migration and Citizenship, COMPAS, University of Oxford,15 October, 2009

‘Intersectionality and belonging’, seminar at the Centre for Gender Studies, Umea University, Sweden, 4 November 2009

IPSA Archive at the Refugee Studies Archive and the ESRC Archive.

Major (book) publications pre 2001:

• Racialised Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle, co-authored with F. Anthias, Routledge, 1992
• Refusing Holy Orders: Women and Fundamentalism in Britain, edited with G. Sahgal, Virago Press, 1992
• Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Class, edited with D. Stasiulis, Sage, 1995
• Gender and Nation, Sage, 1997
• Women, Citizenship and Difference, edited with P. Werbner, Z Books, 1999

• 2002-6 President of the research committee 05 of the International Sociological Association on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic relations.

  December 2002 – A member of the investigative international women’s delegation to India, International Initiative for Justice in the Gujarat.

  February 2003 – A member of an international assessment team that reviewed the Sociology degrees at York University, Toronto.

  May 2004 and June 2005 – A member of the expert consultation team on the gender initiative of Amnesty International.

 

• June 2006 -  A member of the expert advisory team of the UNDP evaluation of its work in post-conflict societies.
• 2007-9 – A member of the Panel of Experts of the European Include-Ed Project, CREA, Barcelona.
• 2008 – A member of the Sociology RAE panel
• Since 2008 – a member of the Academic Forum of Runnymede Trust
• June, 2009, expert consultation, The International Council on Human Rights Policy, Geneva
• Since September 2009, Director of the Centre for Research on Migration, refugees and Belonging (CMRB), HSS, UEL

  Conference organizing:

  August, 2001, Organized an Interim Conference of the Research Committee on Race and Ethnicity of the International Sociological Association in the NGO Forum of the UN World Conference Against Racism, Durban, South Africa.

  February, 2002, Organized a Memorial Conference for Tijen Uguris on Gender, Ethnicity and Place, University of Greenwich, London

  July, 2002, Organized the fifteen panels’ stream on Race, Ethnicity and Minority Relations at the International Sociological Association Conference, Brisbane, Australia and in charge of two panel on Gendered Racisms and on Indigenous People.

  August, 2004, Co-organizing the interim conference of ISA RC05 and IRC32 on ‘Racisms, Sexisms and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, London

  July 2006, on the organizing committee of the congress of the International Sociological Association, Durban, South Africa; co-organized the semi-plenary symposia as well as the eighteen panels of the RC05.

  September 2007, co-organized an international workshop on “Feminisms and Activism: Transversal Politics in Contemporary Europe and Across the Globe”, funded by the European Science Foundation and the Global Fund for Women which took place at the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies, Inter-College, Cyprus

  March 2008, co-organized a multi-disciplinary national conference on the ‘Methodological, Theoretical and Political Aspects of Participatory Research among Refugees’, ESRC Identities and Social Action research Programme & UEL.

  Refereeing publications and editorial work:

  Reviewed articles, refereed articles, monographs and proposals for book series as well as endorsed books among others for the American Sociological Review, Capital and Class; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Ethnicities; Feminist Review; International Feminist Journal of Politics; Signs, Sociology; International Sociology; Sociological Review; Theory, Cullture & Society; Citizenship Studies; Journal of Middle East Studies;  Ashgate Press, Blackwell Publications, Oxford University Press, Palgrave MacMillan, Polity Press, Routledge and Sage Publications.

  Reviewed research proposals for the ESRC, the ESF, the SSRC, the Australian Social Sciences Research Council, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the European Science Foundation, the Icelandic Research Fund, the Nuffield Foundation, the Australian Marshallplan Foundation, the Viennese Social Sciences and Humanities Council, Newcastle University in Australia, University fo Vienna, Danish Agency for Science, UN Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva

• Subject editor of Politics and the state of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Women, Routledge, New York, 2001
• Currently on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Das Argument (Germany), Ethnicities, (UK), Hagar (Israel), the International Feminist Journal of Politics (Routledge), Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and the Journal of Inter-cultural Studies (Australia),  the South Asia Bulletin (USA).

 

Research Grants:

• February-May 2004, Rockfeller Fellow at the programme on Gender, Globalization and Human Security at the Graduate School, City University of New York and the National Council for Research on Women.
• Awarded a major ESRC award (208k pounds) in their  programme on Identities and Social Action: Identity, Performance and Social Action: The Use of Community Theatre Among Refugees (April 2005 – March 2008)
• £3,000 from Runnymeade Trust to organize a conference on Migration, Racism and Religion (February 2010).

 

Weblinks:

Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging

Identity, Performance and Social Action: Community Theatre Among Refugees