Associate Fellows – SHaME

Stellenbosch University (South Africa) Dr Chet Fransch is a lecturer in Stellenbosch University’s History Department and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. His area of research primarily focuses on the intersection of multiple and coexisting historical narratives on sex, sexuality and sexual violence in South Africa, 17th -21st centuries. This is foregrounded in legal pluralism –…

Independent Scholar / Included Dr Nick Basannavar is an historian specialising in the cultural, social and sexual history of contemporary Britain, and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Nick’s recent research explores the ways in which sexual violence against children has been represented and discussed in public, professional and personal spheres. His forthcoming book with Palgrave…

Advocate, Community Organiser, Consultant and Educator Marai Larasi is an activist who has worked on ending violence against women and girls for 25 years, and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Until May 2019, she was the Executive Director of Imkaan, a leading Black-feminist network organisation, and has also been Co-Chair of the End Violence…

University of Leicester Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor is a sociologist at the University of Leicester. Her research spans two important fields; sexual exploitation and violence, trafficking, human rights, childhood, sex work; and cosmetic surgery, health and medical markets, regulation. She focuses on the intersections of gender, race, sexuality and questions of sexual exploitation, embodiment and identity.…

Deakin University (Australia) Amie O’Shea is a Lecturer in Disability & Inclusion in the Faculty of Health at Deakin University, Australia. Her work explores intersections of gender, sexuality and disability, beginning with her PhD research on the experiences of young women with intellectual disability which received the University Medal for Excellence. Her work since then…

Yale University (USA) Angélica Clayton is a PhD candidate in the history of science and medicine at Yale University and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her dissertation looks at the history of psychological trauma in the United States from the 1970s through the early 2000s, tracing the formation of a new medical-scientific community around…

Newcastle University Dr Gethin Rees is Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University  and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. His research interests are in the work of healthcare professionals as they engage with criminal justice, and he has previously explored the work of Forensic Medical Examiners (FMEs), Forensic Nurse Examiners (FNEs) and Sexual Assault Nurse…

Birkbeck, University of London Dr Julia Laite is Reader in Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London and joins SHaME as an Associate Fellow. Her research focuses on sexual labour, women’s migrant labour, and the reality and discourse of ‘sex trafficking’ in the early twentieth century. Dr Laite takes a rights-based approach to the question…