Editors & Contributors

Editor-in-Chief

Nancy A. Naples is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her publications focus on the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, political activism, and citizenship in comparative perspective and feminist praxis. She is author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research (2003)and Grassroots Warriors (1998); and co-editor of Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities and Globalization (2015),The Sexuality of Migration (2010) by Lionel Cantú, and Women’s Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles with Transnational Politics (2002). She is also series editor for Praxis: Theory in Action published by State University of New York Press.

Managing Editor

J. Michael Ryan is an award-winning teacher who has held academic positions at top-ranked universities across five continents. He is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan) and has previously held academic positions in Egypt, Portugal, Ecuador, and the USA. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ryan worked as a research methodologist at the National Center for Health Statistics (which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in Washington, D.C. where he led multiple projects to improve national statistical survey methodology. He is the author (with Serena Nanda) of COVID-19: Social inequalities and human possibilities, and (co-)editor of more than 15 volumes including Core Concepts in Sociology(Wiley 2019). He is also the founding editor of Routledge’s The COVID-19 Pandemic Series. 

Associate Editors

renée c. hoogland is Professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, where she teaches literature and culture after 1870, critical theory, cultural studies, and visual culture. She has published widely on American and British literature, film, visual culture, and critical theory. Her most recent book is A Violent Embrace: Art and Aesthetics after Representation (UPNE, 2014). hoogland is also the editor of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts and the Senior Editor in Chief of a 10 volume handbook series on Gender forthcoming with MacMillan. 

Maithree Wickramasing he is Professor at the Department of English and the Founding Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. She is Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests include gender mainstreaming, sexual and gender-based violence, women and development as well as feminist research methodology. Her publications include Feminist Research Methodology: Making Meanings of Meaning Making (2010), and From Theory to Action: Women, Gender and Development (2000). She has worked extensively on transforming research into policy, programs and evaluation. 

Wai Ching Angela Wong is Vice-Chair and Associate Professor of Department of Cultural and Religious Studies and the Co-Director of Gender Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her publications include Gender and Family in East Asia (2014), Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History (2010); “Our Stories Our Bodies: Narrating Female Sexuality in Hong Kong,” Mainstreaming Gender in Hong Kong Society (2009), and The Poor Woman: A Critical Analysis of Asian Theology and Contemporary Chinese Fiction by Women (2002).

Advisory Editors

Jennifer Bickham Mendez,The College of William and Mary, USA
Tom Boellstorff, University of California, USA
Catherine Hundleby, University of Windsor, Canada
Eva Magnusson, Umeå University, Sweden
Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College, USA
Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Maria del Pilar Grazioso, University of the Valley of Guatemala, Guatemala
Mansah Prah, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Damien Riggs, Flinders University, Australia
J. Michael Ryan, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Cecilia M. B. Sardenberg, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Tonia St. Germain, Oregon State University, USA
Bronwyn Winter,The University of Sydney, Australia