The Sexual Knowledge Unit research network involves scholars from disciplines across the University of Exeter.
Unit directors:
Professor Kate Fisher – Professor of Social and Cultural History.
Professor Rebecca Langlands – Professor of Classics and Ancient History.
Professor Jana Funke – Associate Professor of English and Sexuality Studies in the Department of English and Film.
Dr Ina Linge – Lecturer in Modern Languages and Cultures (German)
Founding member of the SKU, classicist and historian Dr Jen Grove, stepped down as director in 2020. Jen is now working at UKRI and remains an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter.
PGR Gender and Sexuality Research Network Leads:
Charlie Berry
Unit members:
Dr Alexandra (known as Sandy) Allan – Senior Lecturer and GSE Director of Doctoral Studies in Graduate School of Education.
Professor Manuela Barreto – Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology in the Department of Psychology.
Dr Charlotte Bishop – Lecturer in Law
Dr Susannah Cornwall – Professor in Theology and Religion.
Dr Jennifer Farrell – Lecturer in Medieval History (E&S) in the Department of History.
Elisa Groff – PhD candidate in the Department of Classics and Ancient History.
Dr Ting Guo – Lecturer in Translation (Chinese) in the Department of Modern Languages.
Dr Sarah Jones – Research Fellow in the Centre for Medical History, Senior Lecturer, History, University of Bristol.
Dr Sarah Drews Lucas – Lecturer in the Centre for Political Thought.
Professor João Florêncio – Honorary Professor in Art History and Visual Culture; Professor of Gender Studies and Chair of Sex Media and Sex Culturesat Linköping University,
Muireann Maguire – Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature.
Dr Thekla Morgenroth – Research Fellow in Social and Organisational Psychology.
Dr Katie Natanel – Lecturer in Gender Studies, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Professor Hugh Roberts – Professor of French Renaissance Literature.
Dr Emily Selove – Lecturer of medieval Arabic language and literature in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
Dr Felicity Thomas – Research Fellow in Centre for Medical History.
Dr. Katie Snow -Research Associate, Department of Archaeology and History.
Prof. Rebecca Flemming, A.G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought
Professor Sarah Toulalan, Department of Archaeology and History.
Professor Catherine Rider, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Rebecca Williams, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Hannah Young, Department of Archaeology and History.
Professor Emily Bridger, Department of Archaeology and History.
Professor Helen Berry, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Surya Simon, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Alun Withey, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Eve Worth, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Emily Vine, Research Fellow in History.
Dr Rebecca Lynch, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology.
Professor Dana Wilson-Kovacs, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology.
Dr Nitzan Peri-Rotem, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology.
Dr Kate Goldie Townsend, Department of Politics.
Dr Sabiha Allouche, Lecturer in Middle East Politics.
Dr Daniel Fountain, Art History and Visual Culture.
Dr Sarah Bulmer, Department of Politics.
Professor Fiona Cox, Professor of French and Comparative Literature,
Dr Cordelia Freeman, Department of Geography.
Dr. Andrea Espinoza Carvajal, Research Fellow, Department of History.
Dr Sarah Cooper, Department of Politics
Dr Felicity Gee, Department of English and Creative Writing.
Professor Stacey Hynd, Department of Archaeology and History.
Dr Mathura Umachandran, Classics and Ancient History.
Dr Eliana Maestri, Modern Languages and Cultures.
Amelia Morris, Media and Communications.
Woori Han, Media and Communications.
Haili Li, Media and Communications.
Cecilia Neil-Smith, Postgraduate Researcher in Art History and Visual Culture.
Chloë Edwards, Postgraduate Researcher in Art History and Visual Culture.
Sam Godfre, Postgraduate Researcher in Art History and Visual Culture.
Polly Lowe, Postgraduate Researcher in History.
Maria Teresa Maragoni, Postgraduate Researcher in History.
Sonia Wigh – PhD candidate in the Department of History, Centre for Early Modern Studies, and Centre for South Asian Studies.
Kazuki Yamada – PhD Candidate in the QUEX Institute for Global Sustainability and Wellbeing.
Jack Sargent – PhD candidate in the Department of English.
Mehrdad Alipour – PhD candidate in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
Alexis Davin, PhD candidate, in Department of History, Exeter, Department of Philosophy, Bristol.
Meg Kanazawa, PhD Student, Exeter South Asia Centre.
Prashant, PhD Student, Exeter South Asia Centre.
Sexual Knowledge Unit Associates