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Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Rebecca Waxman
University of California, Los Angeles
2
Cemre Aydoğan
Yeditepe University
3
Kendra Taira Field
Tufts University
4
Li Tang
Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital
5
Anna Elomäki
Tampere University
6
Maud Anne Bracke
University of Glasgow
7
Jon Coburn
Northumbria University
8
Ali Bitenga Alexandre
Kinshasa General Hospital
9
Keshab Giri
The University of Sydney
10
Jiaxuan Geng
Zhengzhou University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Exploring the desires to become academics: Reflections of academic women in Chinese non‐elite public universities
European Journal of Education|2024
9 cit.
2
Exploring Chinese doctoral graduates’ career choices and gender differences through the lens of rational choice theory
Higher Education|2024
7 cit.
3
The “digital personalization effect” (DPE): A quantification of the possible extent to which personalizing content can increase the impact of online manipulations
Computers in Human Behavior|2025
7 cit.
4
Neurological manifestations and risk factors associated with poor prognosis in hospitalized children with Omicron variant infection
European Journal of Pediatrics|2024
6 cit.
5
Individual agency and social support in healing from conflict-related sexual violence: A case history from eastern DRC
Global Public Health|2024
5 cit.
6
The Ideal Proportion of the Auricle Exposure via a Morphometric Analysis in Asian Women
Aesthetic Plastic Surgery|2024
5 cit.
7
Bouncing back after trauma: music therapy, gender, and mental health in conflict-ridden settings
Discover Mental Health|2025
4 cit.
8
Gender mainstreaming in economic governance: governing women’s productive and reproductive labor in the European Union
International Feminist Journal of Politics|2025
4 cit.
9
The “multiple exposure effect” (MEE): How multiple exposures to similarly biased online content can cause increasingly larger shifts in opinions and voting preferences
PLoS ONE|2025
3 cit.
10
Introduction: Gender and work in twentieth-century Italy: new approaches
Modern Italy|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Blair Williams
Monash University
2
Leandra Zarnow
University of Houston
3
Marilyn Muthoni Kamuru
Unknown
4
Jana Naujoks
Unknown
5
Claire Duncanson
Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre
6
Lucia Direnberger
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
7
Melinda Arnell
Utah State University
8
Samantha Guthrie
Meta (United States)
9
Michelle Sandhoff
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
10
Massimo Prearo
University of Verona

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Critical Feminist Engagements with Green New Deals
Feminist Economics|2023
17 cit.
2
Les universitaires béninoises face aux hiérarchies dans la production des savoirs francophones sur le genre
Genre sexualité & société|2022
9 cit.
3
All’s Fair in Pandemic and War? A Gendered Analysis of Australian Coverage of Covid-19
Media and Communication|2023
6 cit.
4
Resisting the Epistemic Straight Gaze in the Anti-gender Era: Italian LGBTIQ+ Studies and Scholars, 2013–2023
Women's studies quarterly|2024
6 cit.
5
Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015
European Journal of Women s Studies|2022
5 cit.
6
Do LGBTIQ+ issues matter for populist radical right? An analysis of Italian parties’ social media narratives
South European Society & Politics|2025
5 cit.
7
The Anti-gender and Gender-critical Roots of the Italian Anti-trans Parent Activism
DiGeSt Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies|2023
3 cit.
8
Beyond electoral performance: reviewing and advancing the literature on LGBTIQ+ political careers
Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica|2024
3 cit.
9
A traditionalist pattern of morality politics in the Italian parliament: the case of same-sex civil partnerships
Contemporary Italian Politics|2024
3 cit.
10
The Unsettling of Women Prime Ministers: A Gendered Analysis of Political Cartoons
Women s Studies in Communication|2024
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Emily Martin
Johns Hopkins University
2
John Lee
City University of Hong Kong
3
Catherine Hall
University of Essex
4
Mona Lena Krook
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
5
Judith R. Walkowitz
New York University
6
Leila J. Rupp
Albany State University
7
John Boswell
University of Southampton
8
Jacqui True
Monash University
9
David Knights
University of Manchester
10
Ruth Milkman
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction
Journal of American History|1988
2.1k cit.
2
Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850
Feminist Review|1987
1.5k cit.
3
Toward a new sociology of masculinity
Theory and Society|1985
1.3k cit.
4
The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles
Signs|1991
1.3k cit.
5
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth- Century America.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1992
1k cit.
6
Corporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity: A Critique
Organization Studies|1991
979 cit.
7
Transnational Networks and Policy Diffusion: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming
International Studies Quarterly|2001
792 cit.
8
Rethinking the life cycles of international norms: The United Nations and the global promotion of gender equality
European Journal of International Relations|2010
723 cit.
9
Power and Subjectivity at Work: From Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations
Sociology|1989
683 cit.
10
Homosexuality in Renaissance England
The American Historical Review|1984
652 cit.

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