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Adriana Zaharijević is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She writes at the crossroads of political philosophy, feminist and social theory. Zaharijević authored three monographs, Becoming a woman, Who is an individual? Genealogical inquiry into the concept of the citizen, and Life of bodies. Political philosophy of Judith Butler, all in Serbian. Her Butler and Politics will be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2023.

Alberta Giorgi is Senior assistant professor in sociology of cultural and communication processes at the University of Bergamo, Italy, and associate researcher of the research groups Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (CNRS - Paris, France), CRAFT – Contemporary Faiths in Transition (University of Turin, Italy), and the Centro de Estudos Sociais (University of Coimbra, Portugal). She co-founded the CREative MEthods open lab at the University of Bergamo. Currently, Alberta is the chair of the Research Network Political Sociology of the European Sociological Association and co-editor in chief of the Journal of Religion in Europe. Her work explores boundaries and classifications, especially at the intersection of politics, gender and religion.

Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho is an associate researcher of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He has been a Guest Assistant Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Coimbra since February 2017, where he has been lecturing at undergraduate and graduate programmes in International Relations, Development, Peace and Security Studies and in Journalism and Communication Studies, focusing on the areas of Media and Culture Studies and Political Communication.

Amila Ždralović is an associate professor and vice dean of research at the University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Law, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo (Department of Philosophy and Sociology) and obtained a PhD at the Faculty of Political Science in Sarajevo (Department: Sociology). She has worked as a journalist, a high school teacher, and a trainer on NGO projects and has published over fifty papers and research reports. She is a member of the Board for Sociological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a member of the Council for Gender Equality of the University of Sarajevo. Her area of research interest is the sociology of law.

Bilge Yabanci is a Marie Curie fellow at Northwestern University (USA) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy). She researches social movements and the transformation of civil society and civic space under autocratization. She carried out extensive fieldwork on youth, women, and diaspora organizations under the pressure of democratic decline covering both cooptation and resistance dynamics within civil society. Her research also extends into populism, the populism-religion-nationalism relationship, and the role of affect and performance in political mobilization. Previously, she was an Open Society fellow as a part of the human rights cohort and a Swedish Institute postdoctoral fellow. 

Chara Karagiannopoulou is Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Politics at Panteion University, Athens, Greece. In the past, she was Teaching Fellow at Universität Bielefeld, Germany and Member of the Scientific Committee of the Research Centre for Gender Equality. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. She specializes in identity politics, feminist International Relations, and Religion and International Relations. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Studies in Law on Religion, Journal of Balkans and Near East Studies, Frontiers in Human Dynamics and Culture and Research.

Chiara Maritato is postdoctoral fellow at the Cultures, Politics and Society Department at the University of Turin, Italy. Her research interests include women and gender issues in religious parties and organizations, secularism, politics and religion, diaspora institutions and diaspora governance, migration and religion. She has conducted field research on political Islam, diaspora organizations, transnational religious institutions in Turkey, Austria, Italy, France and Sweden. She is currently conducting research on the actors governing migrant mobility at the Greek-Turkish border. She has been postdoctoral fellow at the University of Graz, Centre for Southeast European Studies.

Cristiano Gianolla is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, where he integrates research thematic line on Democracy, Justice and Human Rights. Cristiano is the Principal Investigator of the UNPOP project (FCT, 2021-2024) and was a team member of the ECHOES (H2020, 2018-2021), ALICE (ERC, 2011-2016) and FRANET (2021-2022) European projects. He is a co-founding and co-coordinating member of the "Inter-Thematic group on Migrations" and co-coordinates the research programme "Epistemologies of the South" at CES. His current research interests focus on emotions and narratives in democratic processes.

Inês Amaral is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho, she is a researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies. She has been researching sociabilities in digital social networks, media and digital literacy, technologies and ageing, audiences and media consumption in the digital age, gender and media. Inês has published in journals such as the International Journal of Communication, El Professional de la Información, European Journal of Women's Studies, Media Studies and the European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults.

Jadranka Rebeka Anić works at the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar – Regional Centre Split, Croatia, as a research Advisor. She taught Religion and Gender as part of the MA Religious Studies program at the University of Sarajevo. As a visiting professor, she taught a course at the Department of Sociology, University of Zadar, at the Faculty of Theology Matija Vlačić Ilirik, University of Zagreb and at the Catholic Theological Faculty, University of Split. She has published a number of papers in the field of feminist theology, including books such as How to understand gender? The history of discussions and different understandings in the Church (2011), Mary Magdalene:From a Follower of Jesus to a Strumpet on the Silver Screen (2018). 

Júlia Garraio is researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal, where she co-coordinates the working groups Policredos – Religions and Society and GPS – Research Group on Sexualities. She develops the project Dis/entangling Rape: Sexual Violence in Portuguese literature and cinema in the 21st century. She is Co-PI of the project UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape. She is co-founder of the international research group SVAC-Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. She is book review editor of the European Journal of Women’s Studies. She integrated the Historical Research Group of the Independent Commission for the Study of Child Sexual Abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church.

Manuel Anselmi is a political sociology researcher at the University of Bergamo. He mainly deals with political ideologies and populism. He has been Visiting Professor at the Universidad de Kentucky, Flacso Ecuador, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, and visiting academic at the London School of Economics and the Universidad Loyola de Nueva Orleans. His publications include: Chavez's Children: Ideology, Education, and Society in Latin America (Lexington Books, 2015); Populism. An introduction (Routledge, 2017); with Paul Blokker, Multiple Populisms (Routledge, 2019).

Maria Elena Indelicato (she, her, hers) is a CEEC FCT researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the English Department of the University of Münster, and a team member of the FCT funded research project UNPOP and an associate editor of the Journal of Cultural Studies. With Alana Lentin, she is also co-editing the section 'Anti-Racism/Mobilisations and Resistance' of the online Routledge Encyclopaedia of Race and Racism. Besides her monograph 'Australian New Migrants: International Students' History of Affective Encounters with the Border (2018),' she has published in feminist, critical race and cultural studies journals.

Nahed Ashqar-Sharary is a post-doc at NYU and researcher who specializes in Islamic feminism, with an emphasis on Palestinian feminism in Israel. In 2020, she won the Dan David Prize for her research on the critical religious identities of Muslim women in Israel. Her research explores the ways in which the Islamic religious identities of women affect the woman herself, her relationship with her family, and the society in which she lives. Nahed holds a bachelor's and master's degree in social work, and a PhD from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, under the supervision of Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder. She was a visiting faculty member of the Mandel Program for Regional Leadership in Al-Kasum, Neve Midbar and Segev Shalom.

Niki Papageorgiou is Professor in Sociology of Religion at the School of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her scientific interests focus on Religion in modern Greek Society, Religious Identities in Greece and the Middle East, Migration and Religion, Gender and Religion. Her most recent publications are: Religion in Post-dictatorship period in Greece. Limits and ambivalences, Ed. Barbounakis, Thessaloniki 2018 (in Greek), Society, Religion and Law. Overlapping Relationships and Intersections (with assoc. Professor K. Papageorgiou), Ed. Papazisi, Athens 2020 (in Greek). She is the co-editor of the collective volume, Deaconesses, the ordination of Women and Orthodox Theology, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle 2017.

Teresa Toldy isFull Professor at Fernando Pessoa University, Portugal, where she teaches Ethics, and Citizenship, Gender and Religion. She is a researcher at the Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, where she currently co-coordinates the working group Policredos – Religions and Society. She integrates the Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Society of Women in Theological Research and she is co-editor of the ESWTR Studies in Religion. She also integrates the Advisory Board of the series Aletheia, from the Association of Spanish Feminist Theologians. Her focus of research is feminist theology, gender and religion.

Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her studies focus on marginality, inequality and agency from gender and racial perspectives among minority women in both private (family) and public spheres (Higher education and employment). Chosen as the sociologist of the month (July) for Current Sociology journal (2019), Sarab won several awards and prizes such as the Toronto Prize for Excellent Young Academic Scholars, Businesses for Peace, 'Project WEALTH - Promoting Local Sustainable Economic Development - SHIRAA's food processing plant in Bethlehem' (Jointly with SHIRAA association). 

Sofia José Santos is an Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the same university where she leads as PI the Project UnCoveR - Sexual Violence in Portuguese Mediascape. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations (University of Coimbra) and a specialisation in Communication (ISCTE-IUL). Since 2008, she has undertaken research on critical studies, media and international relations; media and masculinities; and internet and technopolitics. Sofia has published in journals such as the European Journal of Women's Studies and Contexto Internacional.

Zlatiborka Popov-Momčinović is an associate professor of political sciences at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of East Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, whose PhD thesis on the women's movement in Bosnia and Herzegovina was completed at the University of Belgrade. She teaches History of Political Ideas, Gender and Politics, and Political culture. She has participated in numerous scientific research projects about gender equality, civil society activism, and the role of religion in peace-building (in cooperation with the University of Edinburgh). She is a member of the Board for Political Sciences of the Academy Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

Zorana Antonijević is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of Novi Sad. The focus of her research interests is gendered institutions, gender mainstreaming in care and security policies, and critical studies on men and masculinities. Antonijević is working as a gender equality consultant, and she is the founder and director of the PolicySolutions research and consultancy firm.