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Meet Our New Faculty Member – Dr. Tyanif Rico Rodríguez

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The Department of Gender Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Tyanif Rico Rodríguez as a new permanent faculty member.

MA Student Isabella Costa Co-Authors a Critical Policy Paper

September 24, 2025
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Our student Isabella Costa, who is on the Applied Track in the 2-year MA in Critical Gender Studies, has co-authored a critical policy paper with Dr. Miriam Mona Mukalazi, published by the Internation Institute for Peace. Isabella has worked under Dr. Mukalazi’s direct supervision during her summer internship at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue (VIDC). Together they also published the following interview.

New OA collaborative monograph by ZARAH project team: “Women’s Labour Activism in Eastern Europe and Beyond: A new transnational history” (UCL Press, August 2025)

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The collaborative monograph presents a deeply researched, inclusive history of women’s labour activism in Eastern Europe, Austria, Turkey and transnationally, from the age of empires to the late twentieth century. It explores women’s activism and organizing to improve the working conditions and living circumstances of lower-income and working-class women and their communities in the region and internationally.

Andrea Peto received OPUS MIRABILE PRIZE for the Project „Silenced“, the memorial for women as victims of wartime sexual violence 

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The Scientific Committee on Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has awarded the first prize in the category of exhibitions the 2022 OPUS MIRABILE PRIZE to the exhibition ‘Silenced’, coordinated by the Budapest City Archives in the framework of the Municipal of Budapest „Silenced” project, and the edited book Silenced’ edited by Edit András, József Mélyi and Andrea Pető (BFL 2022), the catalogue of the exhibition. The award ceremony will take place on 23 May 2025 in Budapest. 

Gender Studies Professor em. Francisca de Haan receives prestigious Suffrage Science Award 2025

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On March 7, the eve of International Women’s Day, Prof. Francisca de Haan received a Suffrage Science Award 2025. The awards were presented during a celebratory event in the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building in Oxford. Each award season, there are around twelve laureates from disciplines such as physics, chemistry and more.