People
I have never felt so welcomed as I have in the Department of Gender at LSE. It is truly a collective. In a world where fear and loneliness triumphs, the LSE Gender Department offers a place for the heart and mind to feel safe.
Rohit K Dasgupta
Associate Professor of Gender & Sexuality
Deputy Head of Department (Research)
Key expertise: Queer politics, digital culture, South Asia, media & cultural production, cultural labour
Clare Hemmings
Professor of Feminist Theory
Key expertise: Interdisciplinarity, Feminist epistemology and methodology
Aiko Holvikivi
Assistant Professor in Gender, Peace and Security
Key expertise: Women, Peace and Security, Gender training, peacekeeping, Gender expertise
Asiya Islam
Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation
Key expertise: Gender, class, youth, work, Global South, development and globalisation
Sumi Madhok
Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies
Head of Department
Key expertise: Human Rights, Coloniality, Transnational Justice Movements
Sharmila Parmanand
Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation
Key expertise: sex work, trafficking, migration, gender and development
Ania Plomien
Associate Professor of Gender and Social Science
Key expertise: Gender, Feminist political economy, social reproduction, care, work
On leave in 2025-26
SM Rodriguez
Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights
Key expertise: Anticarceral Feminism, Social Justice, Africana Studies, Sexual Politics
Leticia Sabsay
Associate Professor of Gender and Contemporary Culture
Doctoral Programme Director
Key expertise: Queer Theory, psychoanalysis, bodies and sexuality, visual culture, media
Hakan Sandal-Wilson
Assistant Professor of Gender, Peace and Security
Key expertise: Gender and Sexuality, Democracy, Conflict, Ethnicity and Religio, MENA
Wendy Sigle
Professor of Gender and Family Studies
Key expertise: Feminist quantitative research, stratification, family and social policy
Sadie Wearing
Associate Professor of Gender Theory, Culture and Film
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching)
Key expertise: Gender Theory, representation, Feminist Film Theory, aging
R. Sánchez-Rivera
LSE Fellow in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
Key expertise: Science, Tech, Racism, Coloniality, Reproductive Justice, Queer Studies
Zeynep Kilicoglu
Z.Kilicoglu@lse.ac.ukLSE Fellow in Gender and International Politics
Key expertise: Critical Security Studies, Migration and Refugee Studies, Feminist International Relations Theory
Zuzana Dančíková
LSE Fellow in Gender, Policy and Inequalities
Key expertise: Policy, Gender, Family, Care, Social reproduction
Ajnura Akbaš
a.akbas@lse.ac.uk
Naomi Cohen
Dhwani
Henrietta Burr
Department Manager
Henrietta is responsible for the department’s strategy and operations, alongside the Professional Services team and the management of resources.
Email: h.s.burr@lse.ac.uk
Department Email: gender@lse.ac.uk
Rob Kirkland
Department Operations and Assessment Manager
Rob manages and administers assessment for all Gender Studies courses. He also oversees the department’s operational activities.
Catherine Perry
Taught Programmes & Student Affairs Manager
Catherine manages the taught programmes at the Department of Gender Studies. She is responsible for the academic administration of all our Masters programmes.
Email: c.perry2@lse.ac.uk
Annie Robinson
Research Manager
Annie manages the department's research activities portfolio and PhD programme.
Nele Leitolf
Communications and Events Officer
Nele supports the department’s external outreach, engagement activities & research promotion. This is includes management of the department's social media, website, newsletter, alumni network, and events.
Information about how to apply to be Visiting Scholar can be found .
Suki Ali (Department of Sociology)
Sarah Ashwin (Department of Management)
Shakuntala Banaji (Department of Media and Communications)
Lilie Chouliaraki (Department of Media and Communications)
Ernestina Coast (Department of International Development)
Emily Jackson(Department of Law)
Denisa Kostovicova (European Institute and Department of Government)
Nicola Lacey (Department of Law)
Katharine Millar (Department of International Relations)
Irini Moustaki (Department of Statistics)
Dianne Perrons(Professor Emerita in Feminist Political Economy)
Anne Phillips (Department of Government)
Sara Salem(Department of Sociology)
Hakan Seckinelgin (Department of Social Policy)
Imaobong Umoren (Department of International History)