Rebecca Garden

Rebecca Garden

Associate Professor, Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Upstate Medical University

Rebecca Garden, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY.  She received her doctorate from Columbia University’s Department of English and Comparative Literature. She has published on empathy, the humanities, and medicine in New Literary History and the Journal for General Internal Medicine and on narrative, Deafness, and disability in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, the Journal of Medical Humanities, Medical Humanities, and the Journal of Clinical Ethics. Garden teaches the health humanities, disability studies, and bioethics to nurses, public health students, medical students, residents, and hospital social workers, as well as liberal arts undergraduates. She also co-leads a graduate course in social research that investigates Deaf communication in the health care setting, which is part of the Campaign for Deaf Access: Expanding Communication in Health Care research project. She is Executive Director of the Consortium for Culture and Medicine, an inter-institutional and inter-disciplinary research and education collaborative, and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Medical Humanities and Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, the Arts, and Humanities.

Annapurna Garimella

Annapurna Garimella

Independent Scholar, Art Historian, Designer

Dr. Annapurna Garimella is a designer and an art historian. Her research focuses on late medieval Indic architecture and the history and practices of vernacular visual and built cultures in India after Independence. She is co-editor of The Contemporary Hindu Temple: Fragments for a History (2019) and editor of The Long Arc of South Asian Art: A Reader in Honor of Vidya Dehejia (New Delhi: Women Unlimited, 2021). Digesting the Past: The Discourse of Sacralized Architectural Renovation in Southern India (14th-17th Centuries) is her book manuscript under preparation. Garimella is the Managing Trustee of Art, Resources and Teaching Trust. She also heads Jackfruit Research and Design, an organization with a specialized portfolio of design, research and curation. Jackfruit’s recent curatorial projects include Vernacular, in the Contemporary (Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi 2010-11), Mutable: Ceramic and Clay Art in India Since 1947 (Piramal Museum of Art, 2017), and Barefoot College of Craft in Goa (Serendipity Arts Festival, 2017-18).

Working Group Affiliation

Insurgent Domesticities

Amal Ghandour

Amal Ghandour

Amal Ghandour is Strategy Adviser to Ruwwad al Tanmeyah, a regional community development initiative, and Special Adviser to Columbia University Global Centers, Middle East. Ghandour’s career spans two decades in the fields of research and communication. An author (About This Man Called Ali) and a blogger (Thinking Fits), Ghandour holds an MS in International Policy from Stanford University and a BSFS from Georgetown University.

Working Group Affiliation

Religion and the Global Reframing of Gender Violence

Hala Ghosheh

Hala Ghosheh

Hala Ghosheh is a gender expert and development consultant, who was the Director of the five year Gender Social Fund in Jordan. She specializes in sustainable development work with focus on women and youth. Her experience includes working on policy, institutional and local community levels in several countries in the region. She has worked on program management, design, development and monitoring and evaluation, organizational gender reviews and conducting qualitative research to assess the status of women and youth in different contexts. She has also provided policy consultation to national committees and international NGOs on issues of mainstreaming gender, women economic empowerment, youth employability, policy initiatives and program development. She was a founding and board member of the first microfinance institution for women in Jordan and currently, is a council member of the Information Research Center – King Hussein Foundation.

Working Group Affiliation

Religion and the Global Reframing of Gender Violence

Wanjiru Gichuhi

Wanjiru Gichuhi

Senior Lecturer, Population and Research Institute, University of Nairobi

Wanjiru Gichuhi is a Senior Lecturer at the Population Studies and Research Institute of the University of Nairobi. A social demographer, her research focuses on population, health, rural/community and gender issues that have development and social policy implications. Specific interests include family dynamics, maternal/child survival, reproductive health, FP/HIV/AIDS, livelihood and food security issues. She has served as a consultant, project coordinator,and research fellow on a variety of development project appointments within Kenya and beyond. She has keen interest in research and monitoring and evaluation. Gichuhi received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.

Working Group Affiliation

The Rural-Urban Interface: Gender and Poverty in Ghana and Kenya, Statistics and Stories

Faye Ginsburg

Faye Ginsburg

David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology, NYU

Faye Ginsburg is David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU where is is also Director of the Center for Media, Culture and History, Co-Director of the NYU Council for the Study of Disability, and Co-Director of the Center for Religion and Media. Prizewinning author/editor of four Her research focuses on movements for social transformation, from her early work on abortion activists, to her longstanding research on indigenous media, to her current work, with Rayna Rapp, on cultural innovation and learning disabilities.  She collaborated for several years with Lawrence Carter Long on the Dis This screening series at NYU, and is on the advisory board of the Reelabilities Film Festival. She is parent to a daughter with the rare degenerative genetic condition, Familial Dysautonomia and is Vice President of the Familial Dysautonomia Foundation.

Working Group Affiliation

The Future of Disability Studies

Megan Glasmann

Meg recently graduated with her J.D. (with honors) from the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. While in law school, Meg conducted research as a fellow for the Utah Center for Excellence in Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research (UCEER) funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH). Her research focused on reproductive healthcare, legislative history and intent, bioethics, and linguistic considerations of pseudo-medical-legal terminology across academic and applied disciplines. Her current research relates to abortion attitudes among law and medical students. Meg also collaborates with the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab on research related to reproductive healthcare policy and legislative history analyses. 

Before law school, Meg completed a Masters of Education and Masters of Philosophy in Educational Psychology from the University of Utah, where she completed coursework in neuroscience, neuropsychology, statistics, and robust research methodology. Meg attended Stanford University and the University of Utah for her undergraduate program of study in psychology and positive psychology, competing for both universities as a varsity javelin thrower.  

Marcial Godoy-Anativia

Marcial Godoy-Anativia

Associate Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, New York University

Marcial Godoy-Anativia is a sociocultural anthropologist and the Associate Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University. He is co-editor, with Zeynep Gambetti, of Rhetorics of Insecurity: Belonging and Violence in the Neoliberal Era (NYU Press, forthcoming 2013). He is also Editor, with Jill Lane, of e-misférica, the Institute's trilingual online journal. From 2000-2007, he worked in the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and the Program on International Collaboration at the Social Science Research Council. His publications include “Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Middle East Studies in the Aftermath of 9/11,” (with Seteney Shami), “We Are Living in a Time of Pillage: A Conversation with Carlos Monsiváis” and Ciudades Translocales: Espacios, flujo, representación—Perspectivas desde las Américas, co-edited with Rossana Reguillo. He serves on the Board of Directors of the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and on the Editorial Committee of NACLA: Report on the Americas.

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory

Ximena Goecke

Ximena Goecke

Universidad de Chile

Ximena Vanessa Goecke S. is a chilean-jewish historian and a teacher of History and English, candidate to the degree of Magister in Gender and Culture in the Faculty of Humanities at Universidad de Chile. She teaches some courses in the Faculty of Education at Universidad de las Américas (UDLA) and in the English as Foreign Language area at Universidad Católica.

She participates in the research nucleus in “Body and Emotion” of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Universidad de Chile, as a member of the research section in “Body, memory and violence”.

Ms Goecke is interested in the study of generational memories and diaspora as a result of political violence and intolerance. In previous works she has written about the Latin American experiences during the Dictatorships of the second half of the XXth century.

She has written some articles already regarding to the memory of the Shoah in the Chilean Jewish Community, the memoralization of the Shoah in Chile (through monuments) and on the autobiographies written by survivors who migrated to Chile.

Currently, she is writing her thesis based on the study of the testimonies of Shoah survivors that migrated to Chile between Kristallnacht and the end of the IIWW from a gendered point of view. This is the first consistant research ever made on this topic and with these sources in Chile, and she is interested in continue developing this research venue in her future PhD studies.

Since 2012, she is a volunteer for the educational projects of “Memoria Viva” Foundation, leading its educational projects.

Last year she attended as a Fellow to the Curt and Else Silberman Summer Seminar at USHMM (Washington) and presented Foundation’s projects and experiences in a Seminar in Shoah Education in Buenos Aires Argentina, organized by Anne Frank’s House and ITF. She was also a 2013 Fellow in the program “Bridges to History” study trip to New York and Poland organized by the Auschwitz Jewish Center.

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory

Tao Goffe

Tao Goffe

Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University

Tao Leigh Goffe is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Goffe joined the NYU faculty in 2016, prior to which she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University and was a lecturer at Hunter College, CUNY.

Born in London and raised between the UK and US, she is an interdisciplinary scholar and cultural critic specializing in the literatures and vernaculars that emerge from histories of imperialism, migration, and globalization. She works at the intersections of Black Atlantic, Asian American, and Caribbean culture. From the Afromodernism of reggae soundsystems to the orientalism of Hollywood’s yellowface cinema, Goffe tackles the scripting of race and sexuality in American media and performance. Her research is preoccupied with how the history of abolition, indenture, and decolonization frame the transpacific and transatlantic entanglements of African and Asian diasporas.

Her book manuscript “Enmeshed Intimacies: Sensing Afro-Asia in the Atlantic” assembles a sensate archive of recipes, playlists, and photo albums to trace the mysterious figure of the “coolie gal.” She is coediting a special issue on Caribbean runways and runaways that maps fashioning, fugitvity, beauty pageantry, and flight in the shaping of modern womanhood. Goffe’s writing is featured in Small Axe salon, Transforming Anthropology, and Anthurium among other journals. She is the recipient of fellowships through which she has undertaken archival research in London, Shanghai, and Kingston.

In addition to her academic work, she is a DJ.

Working Group Affiliation

Engendering the Archive

Nilüfer Göle

Nilüfer Göle

Professor of Sociology, L'École des Hautes études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Nilüfer Göle is Professor of Sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She works on Islamic visibility in European public spaces and the debates it engenders on religious and cultural difference. Her sociological approach aims to open up a new reading of modernity from a non-western perspective and a broader critique of Eurocentrism in the definitions of secular modernity. She is the author of Islam in Europe: The Lure of Fundamentalism and the Allure of Cosmopolitanism (2010) and The Forbidden Modern: Civilization and Veiling (1997). She is member of the Executive Committee of the Istanbul Seminars. Director of EuropeanPublicIslam at the European Research Council Project 2008-2012.

Macarena Gómez-Barris

Macarena Gómez-Barris

Director of the Global South Center and Chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute

Macarena Gómez-Barris is author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press 2010), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press 2017), and Beyond the Pink Tide: Artistic and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press 2018). She is co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards A Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press 2010) and co-editor with Licia Fiol-Matta of Las Américas Quarterly, a special issue of American Quarterly (Fall 2014). Her new book project is At the Sea’s Edge: On Coloniality and the Oceanic. Her essays have appeared in Antipode, Social Text, GLQ, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies as well as numerous other venues and art catalogues. She has been a Visiting Professor at New York University and a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at FLACSO-Quito. She publishes on decolonial social movements, space and memory, violence and its afterlives, queer and anarchist artistic practices, and submerged perspectives. She is founder and Director of the Global South Center, a transdisciplinary space for experimental research, artistic, and activist praxis, and Chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute.

Working Group Affiliation

Queer Aqui, Project Director

Meena Gopal

Meena Gopal

Associate Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Research Interest: Feminist Theories, Feminist Research Methodologies, Violence against women, socialization, Sexuality and sexual violence

Affiliation: Advanced Centre for Women's Studies, School of Development Studies

Qualification: M.A. (University of Madras), M.Phil. (University of Madras), Ph.D. (JNU, New Delhi)

Gayatri Gopinath

Gayatri Gopinath

Associate Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University

Gayatri Gopinath is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University. She works at the intersection of transnational feminist and queer studies, postcolonial studies, and diaspora studies, and is the author of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke UP, 2005), and Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora (forthcoming from Duke UP in November 2018). She has published numerous essays on gender, sexuality, and queer diasporic cultural production in journals such as Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, GLQ, Social Text, and positions.   

Recent articles and book chapters include: “Queer Visual Excavations: Akram Zaatari, Hashem El Madani, and the Reframing of History in South Lebanon,” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 13:2 (July 2017); “Who’s Your Daddy? Queer Diasporic Reframings of the Region,” in The Sun Never Sets: South Asians in the Age of US Empire, eds. Vivek Bald et al (NYU Press, 2013); “Archive, Affect and the Everyday: Queer Diasporic Re-Visions” in Political Emotions, eds. Ann Cvetkovich et al (Routledge, 2010) and “Queer Regions: Locating Lesbians in Sancharram,” in The Blackwell Companion to LGBT Studies, edited by Molly McGarry and George Haggerty (Blackwell, 2007).

Working Group Affiliation

Queer Aqui

Linda Gordon

Linda Gordon

Department of History, New York University

Linda Gordon is a professor of history and a University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Her early books focused on the historical roots of social policy issues, particularly as they concern gender and family issues. More recently, she has explored other ways of presenting history to a broad audience, publishing the microhistory The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction(Harvard University Press, 1999) and the biography Dorothea Lange: A Life beyond Limits (W.W. Norton, 2009), both of which won the Bancroft Prize. She is one of only three historians to have won this award twice.

Gordon is writing about social movements in the 20th-century United States, including not only progressive movements such as the New Left and the women's liberation movement, but also right-wing movements such as the Ku Klux Klan. She is also examining New Deal (1930s) artists and photographers as part of an artistic social movement, considering the contributions and limitations of art that attempts to support social justice.

Gordon holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a PhD from Yale University. She has won many prizes and fellowships, including the Albert J. Beveridge Award for best history book on any part of the Americas, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in biography; American Council of Learned Societies, Bunting Institute, and Guggenheim fellowships; and a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for her work on family violence.

Working Group Affiliation

Social Justice After the Welfare State

Alo Gorozpe

Alo Gorozpe

Artist, Curator, and Community Organizer

Alo Gorozpe is an artist, curator and community organizer. Born in Mexico City, Alo has a bachelor in Architecture from Universidad Iberoamericana (México City) and an MFA in Performance Arts from Brooklyn College. Alo´s most recent artistic and curatorial work presents itself as a series of communal performances in public spaces. As part of his community-driven process, Alo proposes the design and production of his performances as community building activities that lead up to shared transformative experiences. As a public performance designer and curator, Alo has collaborated with a diverse array of artists, institutions and communities both in Mexico and New York City. For more information on his work visit: www.alonsogorozpe.com

Working Group Affiliations

Zip Code Memory Project: Practices of Justice and Repair, Social Engagement Project

Milena Grass

Milena Grass

Milena Grass Kleiner, translator and theater scholar, is a professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She holds a master's degree in Latin American Studies from Universidad de Chile and a PhD in Literature from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has published Spanish translations of English, American, and French plays, as well as books on Chilean history and theater studies. Her main fields of research have been theater and ritual, history, and memory in post-conflict contexts. Her longstanding work on practice and research methodologies can be found in the book La investigación de los procesos teatrales: Manuel de uso (Santiago: Frontera Sur/Ediciones Apuntes, 2011). From 1996 to 2004 she was the manager of Teatro UC, the professional theater of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, created in 1943. Since the year 2008, she has been the director of the drama school at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Working Group Affiliation

Women Mobilizing Memory

Judith Greenberg

Judith Greenberg

New York University

Judith Greenberg's research and teaching interests focus on questions of memory and trauma Studies, especially through a feminist lens. She holds a degree in comparative literature and her courses are informed by psychoanalysis, film Studies, Holocaust Studies, and her years teaching in French departments. She is the editor of Trauma at Home: After 9/11 and author of a variety of chapters and articles related to trauma and its representations, including "Trauma and Transmission: Echoes of the Missing in Dora Bruder" (Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature), "Surviving Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After: How to Arrive and Depart," (in the MLA publication Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust), "Paths of Resistance: French Women Working from the Inside," (in Experience and Expression: Women, Nazis and the Holocaust) and "The Trauma of Echo and the Echo of Trauma," (in American Imago). She has also taught and written about Virginia Woolf, including publications in Woolf Studies Annual and Virginia Woolf: Turning the Centuries. Greenberg received Gallatin's Jewish Studies grant in 2007 for a manuscript on which she is currently working, Cypora's Shadow, which takes a cousin's memoir written in a Polish ghetto during the final days before the ghetto's liquidation and then explores the trans-generational transmission of trauma, particularly from mothers to daughters.

Veronica Gregg

Veronica Gregg

Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies, Hunter College

Professor Gregg’s scholarly interests include Anglophone Caribbean literature, Caribbean women’s writing, Caribbean intellectual traditions, African American literature, and literature of the African Diaspora. Her publications include Jean Rhys’s Historical Imagination (1995) and Caribbean Women: An Anthology of Non-Fiction Writing (2005).

Her forthcoming book is "This Past that Waits for Me.”  Anglophone Caribbean Women Writers and the Challenge of History.

Sandra Greene

Sandra Greene

Professor of History, Cornell University

My research interests focus on West Africa and more specifically the social and cultural history of Ghana from the height of the Atlantic slave trade (in the 18th century) through the early colonial period (up to World War Two).  Of particular interest to me are changes in gender and ethnic relations, African belief systems and the history of slavery.

The courses I teach reflect these research interests as well as my fascination with Africa's encounter with other worlds (the Americas, Europe, the Islamic world, the Indian Ocean world).