The Sexual Knowledge Unit research network involves scholars from disciplines across the University of Exeter.
Unit directors:
Professor Kate Fisher, Department of Archaeology and History
Professor Rebecca Langlands, Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion, and Theology
Professor Jana Funke, Department of English and Creative Writing
Dr Ina Linge, Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
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:
Chloë Edwards, Art History and Visual Culture
Unit members:
Dr Alexandra (known as Sandy) Allan, School of Education
Professor Manuela Barreto, Department of Pyschology
Dr Susannah Cornwall , Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion, and Theology
Dr Jennifer Farrell, Department of Archaeology and History
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, Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
Dr Katie Natanel, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Professor Hugh Roberts, Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies
Dr Emily Selove, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Dr Felicity Thomas, Department of Health and Community Sciences
Prof. Rebecca Flemming, Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion, and Theology
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 Helen Birkett
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
Dr Hannah Young, University of Greenwich
Dr Elisa Groff, Institute of Classical Studies
Dr Ting Guo, University of Liverpool
Dr Thekla Morgenroth, Purdue University
Dr Sarah Jones, University of Bristol.
Dr. Katie Snow University College Dublin