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Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ryan Thorneycroft
Western Sydney University
2
Kinnon R. MacKinnon
University of Toronto
3
Susanna Rosenbaum
City College of New York
4
Katharina Hunfeld
University of St Andrews
5
Johanna Oksala
Northwestern University
6
Shamayeta Bhattacharya
Point Park University
7
Shelley Tremain
Film Independent
8
Jason L. Ferguson
University of California, Los Angeles
9
E. M. Hernandez
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10
Danielle Jacobson
Trillium Health Centre

Rising Stars Papers

1
Discontinuation of Gender-Affirming Medical Treatments: Prevalence and Associated Features in a Nonprobabilistic Sample of Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescents and Young Adults in Canada and the United States
Journal of Adolescent Health|2024
20 cit.
2
Screwing the Social Model of Disability
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research|2024
14 cit.
3
Crip Theory and the Subject of Abledness
Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research|2024
12 cit.
4
Whose concerns? Young adults discussing (their) concerns with pornography
Sex Education|2024
6 cit.
5
Introducing Novel Methods to Identify Fraudulent Responses (Sampling With Sisyphus): Web-Based LGBTQ2S+ Mixed-Methods Study
Journal of Medical Internet Research|2025
5 cit.
6
The Intersection of Gender, Culture and Society for Caregivers of Older Adults Ageing in Place in Ontario, Canada
Health Expectations|2025
4 cit.
7
Queer Criminology and Deviance Studies
Deviant Behavior|2025
3 cit.
8
Young People’s Perspectives of the ‘Male Gaze’ and Matters of Representation in Online Pornography
Australian Feminist Studies|2024
3 cit.
9
When Moral Responsibility Theory Met My Philosophy of Disability
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly|2024
3 cit.
10
Moral Shock and Trans ‘Worlds’ of Sense
Journal of the American Philosophical Association|2024
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Angharad E. Beckett
Durham University
2
Jina B. Kim
Smith College
3
Ingrid Mündel
University of Guelph
4
Emma Langley
University of Warwick
5
Charles K. S. Wu
University of South Alabama
6
Alessandra Marilli
University of Florence
7
Ruti Talmor
Pitzer College
8
Victoria Mason-Angelow
University of Bristol
9
Mark Gatto
Northumbria University
10
Sloan Okrey Anderson
St. Catherine University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Self‐Care
Feminist Anthropology|2022
64 cit.
2
Public support for the use of force in non-Western and non-major powers: The case of a China–Taiwan war
International Political Science Review|2022
19 cit.
3
Work Will Not Save Us: An Asian American Crip Manifesto
Disability Studies Quarterly|2023
16 cit.
4
Misfits Meet Art and Technology: Cripping Transmethodologies
Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies|2024
11 cit.
5
Slow Story-Making in Urgent Times
Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies|2022
8 cit.
6
Public Support for Self-Defence in Taiwan: The Current State of Research
Taiwan politics.|2023
8 cit.
7
Inconvenient academic workers? Collective (Re)humanisation through the dialogue of a Freirean Reading Circle
Culture and Organization|2024
3 cit.
8
Father Involvement in the Lives of Their Children With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in the UK
Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities|2025
3 cit.
9
Toward an Anthropology of Self-Care
Annual Review of Anthropology|2024
1 cit.
10
Media sources, partisanship, and public support for self-defense in Taiwan
Media War & Conflict|2024
1 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Leslie McCall
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
2
John Lee
City University of Hong Kong
3
Mariana Valverde
Institute of Criminology
4
Ann Phoenix
The Open University
5
Kevin B. Paterson
Tianjin Normal University
6
Meda Chesney‐Lind
University of Hawaii System
7
Elizabeth Wilson
University of Nottingham
8
Mary Margaret Fonow
Arizona State University
9
Mark Priestley
University of Leeds
10
Sue Scott
Twitter (United States)

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Complexity of Intersectionality
Signs|2005
6.5k cit.
2
Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis
Signs|2013
3.9k cit.
3
Toward a new sociology of masculinity
Theory and Society|1985
1.3k cit.
4
Ain't I A Woman? Revisiting Intersectionality
Journal of international women's studies|2004
1.1k cit.
5
The Social Model of Disability and the Disappearing Body: Towards a sociology of impairment
Disability & Society|1997
1k cit.
6
Governmentality
Annual Review of Law and Social Science|2006
988 cit.
7
Invisible punishment : the collateral consequences of mass imprisonment
Medical Entomology and Zoology|2002
931 cit.
8
Feminism and criminology
Justice Quarterly|1988
841 cit.
9
Diseases of the will : alcohol and the dilemmas of freedom
Medical Entomology and Zoology|1998
631 cit.
10
Girls' Crime and Woman's Place: Toward a Feminist Model of Female Delinquency
Crime & Delinquency|1989
591 cit.

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