Associate Fellows – SHaME

April Petillo (Assistant Professor, with a gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity focus at Northern Arizona University) honed her current interests through GBV non-profit work among vulnerable (or targeted) communities. April interweaves Native American/Indigenous, comparative/critical sociolegal, critical trafficking, feminist, and queer studies, re/considering lived experiences often overlooked to highlight encoded racial, gendered, and sexualized politics. April focuses on…

Mara Keire is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her research focuses on urban sexuality in the United States, especially during the early twentieth century. Keire is the author of For Business and Pleasure: Red-Light Districts and the Regulation of Vice in the…

Dr Natasha Mulvihill teaches Criminology at the University of Bristol and is head of the Centre for Gender and Violence Research.  The running thread through her work is sex, power and harm.  She has written on the sex industry, as well as on domestic and sexual violence and coercion, and is interested in intersections with faith,…

Renata Peppl is a Research Programme Manager at Queen Mary University of London, developing international collaborations on the topics of Gender-Based Violence, Mental Health, Urban Violence & Wellbeing and Arts & Homelessness. She is also an International Project Coordinator at WOW – Women Of the World Festival Rio de Janeiro, a Trustee at the Latin…

Renata Peppl is a Research Programme Manager at Queen Mary University of London, developing international collaborations on the topics of Gender-Based Violence, Mental Health, Urban Violence & Wellbeing and Arts & Homelessness. She is also an International Project Coordinator at WOW – Women Of the World Festival Rio de Janeiro, a Trustee at the Latin…

Greta LaFleur is Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University. LaFleur is a scholar of eighteenth-century North America, and her work focuses on the histories of gender and sexuality, race and racialization, science and medicine, and law. LaFleur’s first book, The Natural History of Sexuality in Early America, was published by Johns Hopkins University…

Isaac Dery is interested in exploring and developing analytical frameworks that may enable us to question and challenge the ways gendered subjectivities tend to be normalized and reproduced in everyday conversations. Over the years, his thinking and scholarship have been influenced by a vision of research that seeks to transform, humanise, and emancipate African knowledge…

Sinéad Ring is Assistant Professor in Law at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Ireland. Her work explores law’s role in (re)producing social, cultural and political meanings about sexual violence. Her monograph (with Kate Gleeson and Kim Stevenson), Child Sexual Abuse Reported by Adult Survivors: Legal Reponses in England and Wales, Ireland and Australia (2022)…

Adrian Bingham is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. His main research interests are in the political, social and cultural history of twentieth-century Britain, especially the ways newspapers both reflected and shaped British society and culture. He has worked on the press coverage of child sexual abuse. He is co-Editor of the journal Gender and…

Rachel Hope Cleves is Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She specialises in American history, history of sexuality and LGBTQ2S+, and the history of food. Amongst other books, she is the author of Unspeakable, a social history of sex between adults and children, told through the life of 20th-century writer Norman Douglas, an unrepentant pederast. 

Dr Heather R. Hlavka is Associate Professor in the Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Her research focuses on how expertise informs the evolving landscape of sexual assault adjudication in the U.S. Her most recent book, co-authored with Professor Sameena Mulla (who is also an Associate Fellow of SHaME), is entitled Bodies…