Notes on Contributors
Pascale Absi
PhD in Anthropology, is researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (ird), cessma, Université Paris 7. Her field work has primarily taken place in Bolivia.
Dlila Amir
PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Emerita, Gender Studies, Tel Aviv University. Written extensively on abortion, medicine and gender. Recent book—Abortion—A Silenced Issue in Israel (Ressling, 2016) (Hebrew).
Deborah Bernstein
PhD, University of Susex. Prof. Emerita, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa. Published extensively on Israeli society, ethnic, national class and gender relations. Among recent articles, D. Bernstein and B. Hasisi, “Multiple Voices and the Force of Custom on Punishment: Trial of ‘Family Honor Killings’ in Mandate Palestine”, Law and History Review, 34 (2016), pp. 115–154.
Francesca Biancani
PhD (2012) London School of Economics, is Adjunct Professor of History and Institutions of the Modern Middle East at Bologna University. She published a number of articles among which “International Migration and Sex Work in Early Twentieth Century Cairo” in L. Kozma, A. Witznisher and C. Shayegh (Eds.) Globalization and the Making of the Modern Middle East, London: I.B. Tauris, 2014. Her monograph entitled Sex Work, Mobility, and Modernity in Colonial Cairo, 1882–1952 is under contract with IB Tauris.
Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette
PhD (2006), National Museum. He is an adjunct anthropology professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He has been researching prostitution in Rio since 2004 and immigration and other connected issues since 1999. His best known publication in the field of sex work is “On Bullshit and the Trafficking of Women: Moral Entrepreneurs and the Invention of Trafficking of Persons in Brazil” (2012—together with Ana Paula da Silva).
Amalia L. Cabezas
PhD (1998) is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Riverside. Her research and publications include Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic (Temple University Press, 2009).
Susan P. Conner
PhD (1977), Florida State University, is retired Professor of History and Provost of Albion College (Michigan, u.s.a.). She is the author of numerous articles and chapters in women’s and gender studies, European social history, women in the military, and prostitution in Paris, as well as an edited volume and The Age of Napoleon (Greenwood, 2004).
Satarupa Dasgupta
has a PhD in health communication and eleven years of experience working in research and academia. She specializes in sexual rights advocacy, health education and reproductive healthcare services. In her current role as an advocate at Manavi, a not for profit organization based in New Jersey, she is designing and implementing culturally and linguistically specific sexual assault services for South Asian immigrant population in New Jersey.
Mfon Umoren Ekpootu
PhD (2008) is a lecturer at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. She has published widely on historical, social policy and legal questions on gender and sexuality in Africa including Interrogating Policies on Human Trafficking in Nigeria (Africa World Press, 2013).
Raelene Frances
PhD (1989), Monash University, is Professor of History and Dean of Arts at that university in Melbourne. She has published extensively on the history of women’s work, including Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution (unsw Press, 2007).
Pamela Fuentes
PhD (2015), York University, Assistant Professor at Pace University, Manhattan campus. She has published several articles on Mexican history, including “Entre Reivindicaciones Sexuales y Reclamos de Justicia Económica: Divisiones Políticas e Ideológicas Durante la Conferencia Mundial del Año Internacional de la Mujer. México, 1975” (Secuencia, 2014).
Sue Gronewold
PhD in Modern Chinese History, Columbia University, (1996), teaches in the History Department and Asian Studies Program at Kean University. She writes on gender issues and transnational exchanges and is the author of Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China 1856–1937 (Haworth Press, 1985).
Hanan Hammad
PhD (2009) University of Texas-Austin, is Associate Professor of history and the director of the Middle East studies at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on sexuality, working classes and popular culture. Her latest publication is Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt (Austin: utp, 2016)
Lex Heerma van Voss
PhD (1990), is director of the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (knaw) and professor in the History of Social Security at Utrecht University. He has published on the international comparative history of work.
Shawna Herzog
PhD (2013), Washington State University, is an instructor at that University. She has published articles on women in world history and a review for the Journal of Religious History. Her research focuses on slavery and abolition within colonial Southeast Asia.
Philippa Hetherington
PhD (Harvard, 2014), is lecturer in Modern Eurasian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. She has published on gender and consumption under Stalin, the regulation of pornography in late imperial and early Soviet Russia, and is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Circulating Subjects: The Traffic in Women and the Russian Construction of an International Crime.
Nicole Keusch
works on the intertwined histories of Africa and East Asia, especially Japan. The research project on transcultural migration was accomplished during her time at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” of Heidelberg University and at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Liat Kozma
PhD (2006), New York University, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Islamic and Middle East Studies at the Hebrew University. Her latest book is Global Women, Colonial Ports: Prostitution in the Interwar Middle East (suny Press, 2016).
Julia Laite
PhD (Cambridge, 2009), lecturer in history at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published articles on prostitution, trafficking and migration and is the author of Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens: Commercial Sex in London, 1885–1960 (2011).
Nomi Levenkron
PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. Levenkron Nomi and Rosenberg-Dancig Hadar, “Migratory Violence”, Tel Aviv University Law Review, 37(2) 341 (2015). [in Hebrew]; “What Is a Law Student Doing in a Brothel?” Hamishpat, 17(1) 190 (2013) [in Hebrew].
Mary Linehan
is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Tyler. Her publications include works on rape, prostitution, and girls’ sexuality in the late 19th century.
Maja Mechant
is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Ghent University. Her doctorate on the life courses of prostitutes working in Bruges during the eighteenth century is funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (fwo).
Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk
PhD (2007), is a global labour and gender historian, working as associate professor at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has published on women’s and children’s work, and participated in several projects comparing the history of workers worldwide.
Fernanda Nuñez
PhD (1996), Paris vii-Denis Diderot, is researcher at the National Institute of History and Anthropology, Veracruz-Mexico. She has published books and many articles on mexican women’s history, sexuality and prostitution.
Marion Pluskota
PhD (2012), University of Leicester, uk, is an assistant professor in social history at Leiden University, The Netherlands. She has published on prostitution Prostitution and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Ports (Abingdon: Routledge, 2015), co-offending and gender differences in prosecution patterns.
Magaly Rodríguez García
PhD (2008), is lecturer of contemporary history at the ku Leuven, Belgium. She has published on the International Labour Organization, the League of Nations’ campaigns against trafficking and child labour, the history and definitions of prostitution and coerced labour.
Cristiana Schettini
PhD (2002) State University of Campinas (unicamp), Brazil, is a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (conicet) at the Social Sciences Institute of the University of San Martín, in Argentina. She has published articles and books on the social history of prostitution in South America, especially Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires.
Hila Shamir, S.J.D.
(2008), Harvard University. Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. Recent publication include “The Public/Private Distinction Now: The Challenges of Privatization and of the Regulatory State”, 15 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 1 (2014), “A Labor Paradigm for Human Trafficking”, 60 ucla Law Review 76 (2012).
Yvonne Svanström
PhD (2000), is a senior lecturer and Associate Professor in Economic History at Stockholm University. Last publication: “From contested to consensus: Swedish politics on prostitution and trafficking”, in Eilís Ward &Gillian Wylie, The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism: Prostitution, Feminism and the State (Routledge, 2017).
Isabelle Tracol-Huynh
PhD (2013), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France), is an associate Research scholar at Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies. Her thesis focused on prostitution in colonial Northern Vietnam and she has published several articles on that subject, including “The Shadow Theatre of Prostitution in French Colonial Tonkin: Faceless Prostitutes under the Colonial Gaze” Journal of Vietnamese Studies, (2012).
Michela Turno
PhD (2012), University of Leicester, is an independent historian. She has published monographs and articles on prostitution and Italian women’s history. Forthcoming chapter: “Discussing Prostitution: The Experience of the Genoese Coordinamento donne flm, 1981–1983”.
Mark David Wyers
PhD candidate, Leiden University, has written a history of prostitution titled “Wicked” Istanbul: The Regulation of Prostitution in the Early Republic of Turkey (Libra, 2012) and translated numerous novels from Turkish into English.