Visiting Scholars

At Sciences Po, Gender Studies are organised through a gender studies cross-cutting programme bringing together researchers from all disciplinary research units. The visiting faculty is hosted in one of the Science Po research units benefiting from the dynamic of the researchers with diverse disciplinary backgrounds.

Sciences Po - Université Paris Cité | Gender Studies Visiting Faculty Programme

Every year, its Gender Studies Programme, with its partner Université Paris Cité, is calling for applications for visiting faculty from around the world.

Fall 2024

Shivani Gupta, Faculty Lecturer at the National University of Singapore College. 

Shivani Gupta is a feminist anthropologist interested in examining how everyday gendered experiences in urban settings are articulated and negotiated by gender minorities through precepts of violence, surveillance, mobilities, fear, morality, and honor rooted in social structures. She uses ethnographic, feminist, and phenomenology approaches to investigate social issues of gender, sexuality, violence, urbanism, spatiality, subversions, everyday, and pedagogy.

She received her PhD from the department of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS), following an MA from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India) and a BA (Honours) in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University (India). Prior to joining NUS College as a lecturer, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Communications and New Media department, at NUS, on a project that investigated campus sexual violence (including technology-facilitated) in Singapore.

At NUSC, she runs one of the impact experience programmes’ called Gender Matters Everyday. In this programme, she supervises students on service and experiential learning projects focused on issues of gender and sexuality in Singapore.

Read an interview with Shivani Gupta, visiting Sciences Po's Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE).

Leda Pérez, Associate professor of the Academic Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad del Pacífico. 

Leda Pérez, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad del Pacífico (Peru). She holds a PhD in International Studies with specialisation in comparative development and Latin American studies from the University of Miami, United States of America. Her research focuses on the intersection of labour and social rights with gender, ethnicity/race, social class, and migration, with particular interest in paid domestic workers and other special labour regimes. Prior to this line of inquiry, she conducted studies on health rights of marginalised populations and on prison policies in the United States and Peru.

Read an interview with Leda Pérez, visiting at Sciences Po's Centre for research on social Inequalities (CRIS).

Spring 2024

Brenda Rodriguez Alegre, Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, Hong Kong University

Brenda Rodriguez Alegre earned her BS, MA and PhD all in Psychology  at the University of Santo Tomas, in the Philippines. Brenda teaches in the Gender Studies Programme of the University of Hong Kong. She has always been among the most visible queer activists in Hong Kong, the Philippines and globally and has appeared on TV and radio. Her research work and interests is mostly on exploring trans and queer identities using interdisciplinary approaches. She was on the Executive board of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) Asia and ILGA World and currently the Society of Transsexual Women of the Philippines. She also serves as a mentor and expert adviser on Migrant workers. She delivered a statement in 2018 at the United Nations on Transgender Advocacy week and won the Hong Kong LGBTQ plus Public Champion and finalist of Women of Influence in Hong Kong 2022-23. 

• Read an interview with Brenda Rodriguez Alegre, visiting at Sciences Po's Center for international studies.
• Watch a discussion with Brenda Rodriguez Alegre on her research topics:

Vincent Wright Chair - Spring 2020

Nazand Begikhani, Vincent Wright Chair, UK

Nazand Begikhani is a leading researcher on gender-based violence and has conducted research on many aspects of violence and gender relations, including honour-based violence and honour killings in Iraqi Kurdistan Region and inside the UK Kurdish diaspora, rape and sexual violence in Iraq and Syria, domestic violence, and family policy and practice in Kurdistan. She is currently researching gender-based violence and displacement, theorising women and war, sexual violence and slavery in the Middle East, focusing on ISIS war strategies.

Read an Interview with Nazand Begikhani : "Investigating Gender-based Violence"

French Economic Observatory Visiting - Spring 2017

Fran Bennett, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University, UK

On April-May 2017, the French Economic Observatory (OFCE) hosted Oxford’s senior researcher Fran Bennett as part of the Oxford-Sciences Po programme.

Fran Bennett's research focuses on social security policy, gender issues, and poverty and income distribution. She is also an independent consultant, and has written extensively on social policy issues for the UK government, NGOs and others. She is one of the UK independent experts on social inclusion for the European Commission.