academic positions

Current positions

Fellow, Director of Studies & College Associate Professor, Jesus College, Cambridge (since 1999)
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Professeure Associée, Centre en Etudes-Genre (CEG), Institut des Sciences Sociales, Université de Lausanne (since 2006)

Other academic roles    

Chair of the LSWP, an interdisciplinary working party which carried out the institutional inquiry into the long-term effects of enslavement and colonial violence at Jesus College, Cambridge (May 2019-December 2023)

Director of the Laboratoire de Sociologie (Labso) at the University of Lausanne, a research unit of 6 professors and 29 research staff (2012-2013)

co-Convenor of the Europe-wide ECPR Standing Group on Political Theory (1998-2008)

member of the national Swiss Expert Committee on Social Exclusion SNF/PNR51 (2001-2009)

Chair of the Directors of Studies Committee at the PPSIS (now HSPS) Faculty, Cambridge (2007-2011)

co-Director of the joint PhD School in Gender Studies of the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne (2004-2005)

Executive Director of the Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies (Michaelmas 2005)

Member of the Organising Committee of the French-Swiss PhD School in Gender Studies (2011-2017)

Member of the National Board, Swiss Sociological Association (2000-2004)

Member of the international Expert Panel ‘Social Sciences and Public Health’ for the SNF project ‘Quality of Qualitative Research in the Health Sciences: Which Evaluation Criteria?’ (P.I. Marie Santiago, Lausanne) (2012-2013)

Member of the Comité international d’experts, Agence d’évaluation de la recherche et de l’enseignement supérieur, France (2013)

Editorial activities

Associate Editor of Feminist Theory (2000-2009)

member of the Editorial Team of the Swiss Journal of Sociology (1999-2003)

member of the Advisory Board, Tijdschrift voor Gender Studies (Dutch Journal of Gender Studies) (since 2008-)

member of the Comité de lecture, Nouvelles Questions Féministes, founded by Simone de Beauvoir (since 2006-)