New GEXcel Fellows

By bjorn on 20 Jun | 0 comments

In late May and early June, 2010, several postdoctoral scholars and doctoral students have been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in GEXcel research themes.

To Themes 3 & 6, Distinctions and Authority; Power Shifts and New Divisions in Society, Work and University,  Özlem Ezer, Giulia Garofalo, Katarzyna Gawlicz, Paula Mählck, Sabrina Marchetti and Dorthe Staunes have been selected for post doc positions, and Vera Galindabaeva, Thamar Heijstra, Karolina Rzepecka and PK Vijayan have been selected to PhD students’ positions.   

Six post docs, and five PhD students were selected for the Sub-theme Gendered Violence, of Themes 7 & 8, Teaching Normcritical Sex – Getting Rid of Violence; Halimah DeShong, Sara di Palma, Mathabo Khau, Sunil Kumar Joshi, Lotta Samelius and Katarina Swahnberg will all visit GEXcel as postdoctoral scholars, and Maria Helena Bastos, Rana Jaleel, Elena Panican, Shirin Saeidi and Nicola Steffen have been granted PhD students’ fellowships. A call for fellowship applications for a second sub-theme, Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities, will open in the autumn of 2010.

To Theme 9, Gendered Sexualed Transnationalisations, Deconstructing the Dominant: Transforming Men, “Centres” and Knowledge/Policy/Practice, Sofia Aboim, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila and Winifred Poster have been selected for post doc fellowships.  PhD students’ fellowships have been granted to Tonya Haynes, Helen Longlands and Nil Mutluer. Moreover, Marie Nordberg has been appointed Open position scholar, affiliated with Theme 9.

Since March, two postdoctoral scholars and four doctoral students have been selected to participate as Visiting Fellows in Theme 10, Love in Our Time – A Question for Feminism. The two postdoctoral student selected for four-month positions at Örebro University were Anna Adeniji and Ewa Majewska. The doctoral students, were Maryam Paknahad Jabarooty, Kaye Quek, Alyssa Schneebaum, and Eleanor Wilkinson.

In the autumn of 2010, two calls for fellowship application will open; 
- Theme 7 & 8, sub-theme 2: Critical, intersectional studies of sexualities
- Theme 11 & 12: Gendered Paradoxes in Changing Academic and Scientific Organization(s)