Editorial Team

The editorial team comprises of people with different disciplinary backgrounds, and from different status groups as well as institutional contexts. With this the inter-/transdisciplinarity and diversity within gender studies is to be reflected. In addition to the permanent members of the editorial team, other scholars support Open Gender Journal as temporary Collection Editors.

Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Kathrin Ganz (Margherita von Brentano Center, Freie Universität Berlin) is a political scientist and sociologist. Her main research interests are theories of hegemony, intersectionality, digitisation and Open Access. She is a founding editor of the Open Gender Journal. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Editorial Management

Sabrina Schotten M.A. (Margherita-von-Brentano-Zentrum, Freie Universität Berlin) is a research associate in the DFG project „Open Gender Journal – Expansionshilfe“. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Sara Tewelde-Negassi (GeStiK, Universität zu Köln) is a doctoral candidate in English Philology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Cologne and a fellow at the a.r.t.e.s.-Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. She is a research associate in the DFG project „Open Gender Journal – Expansionshilfe“. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Academic Editors

Giul Andrighetto (they/them) is a multilingual and internationally educated queer researcher. Born and raised in working-class suburban northern Italy, Giul holds a master's degree in Gender Studies from the University of Louvain and is currently enrolled in a PhD programme at the University of Vienna. Giul’s autoethnographic work explores lived experiences of queerness, whiteness, social class and mental health to understand the messy entanglement of reproduction and resistance to capitalism and heteronormativity. | E-mail | Website

Dr. Bojan Bilić (Department of Political Sociology, University of Vienna) is psychologist and sociologist. His work focuses on anthropology of activism, LGBT movements, queerness, intersectionality, alternatives to psychiatry/democratic psychiatry. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Dr. Käthe von Bose (Institute of Sociology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) is a sociologist and gender researcher. Her work focuses on the sociology of gender and labor, intersectionality, ethnography, and theories of affect and space. She is a board member of the professional society Gender Studies. | E-mail | Website

Prof. Dr. Bettina Brockmeyer (Historical Institute, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen) is a historian. Her main areas of work are gender history, body history, (post)colonialism and praxeological approaches. | E-mail | Website

PD Dr. Tanja Carstensen (Department of Socioeconomics, Hamburg University & Department of Sociology, LMU Munich) is sociologist and gender researcher. Her main research areas are sociology of technology, internet research, sociology of digital transformation, and sociology of work. She is a founding editor of the Open Gender Journal. | E-mail | Website

Dr. Gabriele Jähnert (Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) is a German literature scholar. Her current research focuses on institutional, knowledge and gender history. She is a founding editor of the Open Gender Journal. | E-mail | Website

Dshamilja Adeifio Gosteli, MA., MSc. (lecturer at the Gender Research Office, University of Vienna) is an educational scientist (specialising in educational psychology), lecturer at the University of Education in Fribourg (Switzerland) and the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (sponsored by the federal government, Switzerland). They design and lead further education formats at LGBTQAIP+ conferences and for (prospective) school social workers and social pedagogues, including at the Alice Salomon Hochschule (Berlin) on the topic of intersectionality, and publishes for the psychological community. | dshamilja.gosteli@univie.ac.at | Website | ORCID

Dr. Christa Klein has been working in the Comparative Cultural and Social History of Modern Europe at the Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig since 2020. Main research focuses are body history, gender, postcolonial and intersectionality history, science and intellectual history as well as popular culture and memory culture. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Prof. Dr. Bettina Kleiner (Goethe University Frankfurt) is professor of educational science, gender studies and qualitative methods. Her main areas of work are: Educational subjectivation research, inequality, and difference in the context of educational biographies and institutions, educational theories and methods of qualitative educational research, intersectionality and queer studies. | E-mail | Website

J.-Prof. Dr. Katrin Köppert (Institut of Theory, Academy of Fine Art Leipzig) is an art and media scholar. Her current research interests are queer media theory and affect studies, post- and decolonial (media) theories of the anthropocene, digital feminism and art, popular culture, photography theory and history. | E-mail | Website

Ksenia Meshkova (Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) | E-mail 

Dr. Sushila Mesquita, Gender Research Office, University of Vienna | E-mail | Website

Dr. Kaye Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She has research interests in women’s writing, feminist theory, queer theory, and experimental literature. She is Co-Editor of the Oxford University Press journal, Contemporary Women’s Writing. | E-mail | Website

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Palm (Department of History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) is a biologist and cultural scientist. Her work focuses on the history of biology, gender epistemology, theories of materiality and new biological body concepts, theory and practice of trans- and interdisciplinarity. | E-mail | Website 

Dr. Anita Runge (Margherita von Brentano Center, Freie Universität Berlin) is a founding member of the editorial bord of  OGJ and editor of "querelles-net. Rezensionszeitschrift für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung". Her main focus is on recent German literature, philosophy and literary gender studies. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Prof. Dr. Eva Sänger (Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Cologne) is a sociologist and gender researcher. Her work focuses on praxeological, material-semiotic technology research, ethnographic methods and the biopolitics of pregnancy and birth. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Dr. Dirk Schulz is a cultural scientist and managing director of the central academic institution GeStiK (Gender Studies in Cologne) at the University of Cologne. His main areas of research and teaching are Gender/Queer Studies/Theories, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Poststructuralist/Critical Theories, Semiotics and Popular/Celebrity Culture.| E-mail | Website

Marcel Wrzesinski (Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) is a philosopher and scholar in cultural studies. His work focuses on social movements, political aesthetics, pop culture, electronic publishing and Open Access. He is a founding editor of the Open Gender Journal. | E-mail | Website | ORCID

Collection Editors

Dr. Sabina García Peter (Margherita von Brentano Center, FU Berlin) for the section "Debata Feminista x Open Gender Journal: Gender-specific and Sexual Harassment, Discrimination and Violence in Higher Education Contexts" | E-mail | Website

Editorial Assistance

The editorial process was/is also supported by Peter Bofinger, Jacob Ginster (GeStiK, Uni Köln), Caroline Jebens (MvBZ, FU Berlin), Japhet Johnstone, Lydia Romanowski (ZtG, HU Berlin), Kerstin Rosenbusch (ZtG, HU Berlin), Hannah-Sophie Schüz (MvBZ, FU Berlin), Isabell Strobl (ZtG, HU Berlin), Dr. Neha Vyas, qwir text + design.

Former Members of the Editorial Team

Boka En, Prof. Dr. Urmila Goel, J.-Prof. Dr. Irina Gradinari, Ass.-Prof. Dr. Sabine Grenz, Dr. Japhet Johnstone, Dr. Mike Laufenberg, Dr. Anja Michaelsen, Dr. Julia Scholz, Prof. Dr. Susanne Völker, Dr. Tanja Wälty