Leadership

Program Director

Dr. Iveta Jusová is Associate Professor of Women's Studies and Director of Antioch's Women's and Gender Studies in Europe program, which she has led since 2004. She received her Ph.D. in English and Cultural Studies, in 2000, from Miami University of Oxford, Ohio and her M.A. from Palacky University, Olomouc, the Czech Republic.

Dr. Jusová's research interests include Continental feminist philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminist epistemology, and post-colonial and global feminisms. Her book The New Woman and the Empire (the Ohio University Press, 2005) examines the ways in which late nineteenth-century British women writers approached national, racial, and ethnic difference.

Her articles on European women writers, actresses, and film directors have appeared in Women's Studies International Forum, Social Text, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Theatre History Studies, Slavic and East European Journal, English Literature in Transition, Zadra: Pismo Feministyczne (in Polish), and Divadelní revue (in Czech). Her current research project examines the possibilities and challenges entailed in the present-day encounters between European feminist discourses and the growing immigrant population into Europe from former colonies.

As the WGSE Program Director, Dr. Jusová leads seminars in feminist theory and feminist methodology, guides the students' independent research projects, and evaluates their work. She also team-teaches the WGSE situated feminisms course with local feminist scholars and activists (see WGSE Affiliated Faculty below). She is assisted in her duties by Resident Coordinators in each country visited and by a Program Assistant, who is usually a program alumna/us.

WGSE Affiliated Faculty

The Netherlands: Dr. Rosi Braidotti (University of Utrecht), Dr. Rebecca Gomperts (Women on Waves), Dr. Rosemarie Buikema (University of Utrecht), Dr. Gloria Wekker (University of Utrecht), Dr. Marta Zarzycka (University of Utrecht), Iris van der Tuin, ABD (University of Utrecht), Mariska Majoor (Prostitution Information Center), Joanna Semeniuk, M.A. (European Feminist Forum), Marijke Huisman, ABD (Roterdam University)

The Czech Republic: Dr. Jirina Siklova (Charles University & Gender Center), Vera Chytilova (film director), Dr. Vera Sokolova (Charles University), Gabriela Hrabanova, M.A. (Roma Information Project), Michaela Marksova-Tominova (Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs), Petra Burcikova, M.A. (LaStrada), Dr. Denisa Kera (Charles University), Katerina Jonasova, M.A. (freelance journalist)

Poland: Dr. Slawomira Walczewska (Efka), Beata Kozak, M. A. (Efka), Dr. Justyna Wlodarczyk (University of Warsaw), Dr. Anna Gruszczynska (Campaign against Homophobia), Dr. Marta Raczek (Jagiellonski University), Julie Land, ABD (Jagiellonski University), Marzena Konopka, M. A. (Auschwitz), Natalia Sarata, M. A. (Efka).

Germany: Nivedita Prasad (Ban Ying), Dr. Sabine Grenz (Humboldt University), Julia Ehrt, ABD (Transgender Network Berlin), Dr. Laura Meritt (sex workers' activist), Patricia Schneider (Big Project), Koray Yilmaz-Gunay and Ipek Ipekcioglu (Gays and Lesbian aus der Turkei), Karin Heisecke, M.A. (United Nations Population Fund), Ilona Bubeck (Querverlag), Carolyn Gammon and Katharina Oguntoye (Joliba), Dr. Eva Gerlach (Paula-Panke)

Turkey: WGSE works with the following organizations in Istanbul, rather than specific lecturers: Mor Cati (women's shelters organization), Lambda Istanbul (LGBTQ organization), Gokku (Kurdish women's organization), Helsinki Citizen's Assembly (minority rights organization), Kadin Kapisi Consultation Center (sex workers' organization), Filmmor (feminist film group)

Administrative Support

The Antioch Education Abroad (AEA) office at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio provides primary administrative and financial support for the planning and execution of the program. Questions involving application, preparation, program content and crediting may be addressed to Professor Jusová at AEA.