Notes on Contributors
Mahinur Akşehir Uygur
is currently an Assistant Professor at Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey. Her areas of interest are contemporary fiction, women’s literature, and satire.
Paromita Chakrabarti
Has been a 2010–2011 Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Fellow in the Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington and is Associate Professor in the Department of English at H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, University of Mumbai, India. She has a Ph. D. in English Literature and her research areas include diaspora, postcolonial studies, gender and race.
Ellie Conway
PhD at the University of Glasgow in 2012. Her thesis examined domestic violence policy making in Scotland, focused on women with insecure immigration status in that city. Her research has been in the field of health policy, including health and housing, and participation in national cancer screening programmes. She is now an Affiliate of Glasgow University, and works as a freelance health researcher based in the Institute of Health and Wellbeing.
Athena Elton
Is a Senior Policy Analyst for the Government of Canada. She has a long-term background in research and international development and was an Advisor to the Government of Afghanistan through the United Nations. Her research interests are gender equality, intersectionality, feminism, women’s oppression and sexual exploitation through an interdisciplinary lens of politics, psychology and sociology.
Martine Hébert
Is currently full professor at the Sexology Department of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), Canada. She has training in child development and child clinical psychology as well as a strong background in psychometry. In the past 20 years, her research interests have focused on the consequences associated with interpersonal trauma.
Rebeca Maseda
Is an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is the author of articles on gender and cinema, female pornography, film and schizophrenia, trauma and post- trauma representations in European and American cinema.
Thomas Matyók
Research interests include the role of religion in peace and conflict studies, the changing nature of war and its remembrance, violence, and institutions of peace. He possesses substantial knowledge of international conflict management, organizational, and post- cultural conflict transformation processes.
Catherine Moreau
Is a research coordinator for the cihr Team on Interpersonal Traumas at the Université du Québec à Montréal (uqàm), Canada.
Alison Paradis
Is a postdoctoral researcher with the Équipe Violence sexuelle et santé (évis-sa) at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. She completed her PhD on the associations between different forms of violence in the family of origin, interpersonal problems and intimate partner violence (ipv) in adulthood. Her main research interests are in the field of interpersonal violence.
Arie David Plat
Is an independent researcher and consultant in coping with hidden and overt violence. Organisational Consultant to ngo’s, community institutions, groups, and individuals in Mental Health, Social Welfare and Educations. OPUS UK, associate member. iagp Israel, member.
Ladan Rahbari
Is a political sociologist currently based in Ghent Univerity, Belgium. She is the recipient of an FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) post-doctoral fellowship (2019-2022). She has received a PhD in Gender and Diversity (Studies) from UGent and VUB and a PhD in Sociology from University of Mazandaran. Has extensive teaching and research experience in several universities. Her research interests include gender politics, sexuality, body and migration. As of September 2020, she is editor of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt).
Cathryne L. Schmitz
University of North Carolina Greensboro, focuses her scholarship on organizational development, community building, critical multiculturalism, leadership, interdisciplinary education, global engagement, and environmental sustainability; and is engaged in intercultural global education.
Silvia Naisberg Silberman
Is a psychologist, psychotherapist, lecturer, active in promoting social change and coping with hidden and overt violence. Consultant to organizations, groups and role holders. Interested in the diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities, in individuals and organizations. opus UK, associate member. ofek Israel, member.
Wendy Wiseman
Is Visiting Assistant Professor at Beykent University in Istanbul. She received her PhD in 2010 in Religious Studies from University of California Santa Barbara. She thought at Ozyegin University in Istanbul from 2008–2013 and at Indiana University (2013–2014). Interested in female pornography in cinema, film and schizophrenia, trauma and post-trauma representations in European and American cinema.