Associate Fellows – SHaME

Evan Sedgwick-Jell

Evan Sedgwick-Jell is a PhD candidate in the Psychosocial Studies Department at Birkbeck University of London. He has focused on prevention and dealing with sexual violence in his work as an educator, political activist, and social worker. His doctoral research focuses on the political dimensions of commonsense understandings of depression, as represented in popular non-fiction.…

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Professor Stéphanie Pache

Stéphanie Pache is professor of gender and sexuality studies in the Department of Sociology at Université du Québec à Montréal. She holds an MD and a PhD in history of medicine from the Université de Lausanne. Her dissertation on the history of American feminist psychology reflects her interest in the social and political issues related…

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Dr Charlie Jeffries

Dr Charlie Jeffries is a lecturer at the University of Sussex. Her research focuses on the history of sexuality and the history of social movements in the late twentieth-century and early twenty-first century United States. Her current research project traces the history of anti-sexual violence activism on US campuses from the 1990s to present. She…

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Hatty Nestor

Birkbeck, University of London Hatty Nestor is a writer and academic and is presently completing an AHRC-funded Ph.D. about Ana Mendieta at Birkbeck, University of London. Her writing has been supported by the Arts Council and appears in Frieze, Art in America, The White Review, Gender Forum, and many other publications. Her research interests include…

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Dr Silvia Posocco

Birkbeck, University of London Dr Silvia Posocco is a social anthropologist based in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Dr Posocco’s research focuses on situated experiences of violence, conflict and genocide and their complex aftermaths. Most recently, Dr Posocco has tackled the collection, processing and…

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Dr Tanya Serisier

Birkbeck, University of London Dr Tanya Serisier is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck, University of London and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her research focuses on feminism and the cultural politics of sexual violence. She has published widely on survivor testimony and politics, most notably in Speaking Out: Rape, Feminism and Narrative…

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Sarah Lasoye

University College London Sarah Lasoye is a poet, black feminist, and current masters student in Global Health and Development at UCL, and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. She previously held the role of Women’s Officer for the National Union of Students (NUS), campaigning on behalf of women and non-binary students across Further and Higher…

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Winnie M Li

London School of Economics Winnie M Li is an author and activist, and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her novel Dark Chapter is a fictional retelling of her real-life rape from victim and perpetrator perspectives. Translated into ten languages, it won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, and was nominated for an Edgar Award…

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Dr Andrea Quinlan

University of Waterloo (Canada) Andrea Quinlan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her research focuses on intersections of law, science, technology, and medicine in criminal justice responses to sexual violence, and the influence of anti-violence movements on…

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Dr Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen

University of Newcastle (Australia) Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle (Australia), as well as co-Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. She researches the social and cultural history of modern warfare and has written on the history of…

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Dr Dimitra Vassiliadou

University of the Aegean (Greece) / Hellenic Open University Dimitra Vassiliadou is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University and the PI for the “Brutal intimacies. A history of rape in modern Greece, 1900s-1960s” research project, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (2021-2023). She joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her…

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Professor Sameena Mulla

Emory University (United States) Professor Sameena Mulla is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University (US). She uses anthropological methods to study the intersections of law, medicine and policing. She is the author of The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention (NYU 2014), and the co-author of Bodies in…

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