Gender Experts

Professor of Sociology, Goethe University
As a Sociology professor and chair of Women and Gender Studies at Goethe University, Helma Lutz has been the initiator and advisor of numerous gender and diversity activities at her school. She is associate executive director of the Cornelia Goethe Center of Women’s and Gender Studies at Goethe University. She is also the director of ‘IPP Transnational’, a program for the interna...
Migration Policy Institute
Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
Education M.A. and Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University; B.A. in Philosophy, Barnard College Honors Fulbright Senior Scholar, Germany, 2009; Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow, 2005-6; Shelby Cullom Davis Center Fellowship, Princeton University, 1995-96; Social Politics recognized by Library Journal as one of "10 Best New Journals of 1994"; Fulbright Scholar Abroad, Sweden, 1994; National...
Associate Professor of Women's Studies and history, Emory University
Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Cornelia “Nina” Pillard is a Professor at Georgetown University Law Center.  Her research addresses issues of equality and nondiscrimination, the law of work, and the processes and institutions by which law is effectuated.  She teaches civil procedure, constitutional Law, American and transnational legal theory, and various labor and employment courses.  Nina recent...
Lawyer
Falah Shakarm is a lawyer and currently the Iraqi Project Coordinator for WADI, an international NGO working for empowering civil society and human rights, where he manages projects about women and youth and campaign to stop female genital mutilation on an Iraq and Middle East level. In 2013 he wrote the first draft of law for combating FGM which was submitted to the Iraqi Parliaments. Falah serve...
Visiting Researcher, African Studies Center, Boston University; Consultant
Affiliated with the African Studies Center at Boston University, Marc Sommers is an internationally recognized expert on youth concerns in war and post-war countries. After serving as the headmaster of a girls’ school in Kenya and directing a Red Cross-sponsored community health program in New York, Marc earned his Ph.D. in anthropology from Boston University, choosing as his dissertation to...

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