People

  • Kadri Aavik, Associate Professor of Gender Studies, School of Governance, Law and Society: sociology of gender, intersectionality, critical studies of men and masculinities, gender and work, gender and the neoliberal university, critical university studies from the gender perspective, vegan ecofeminism, critical animal studies, LGBTQ+ studies, feminist methodology and epistemology, qualitative methods.
  • Tiiu Kuurme, Associate Professor Emerita of Educational Sciences, School of Educational Sciences: gender in education, gendered socialisation, particularly in the school context, experiences of pupils from the gender perspective perspective.
  • Kadri Täht, Professor of Sociology of Work and Education, School of Governance, Law and Society: gender and the reconciliation of work and family life, gender, work and labour market participation, mobility in the labour market from a gender perspective, gender and time use in families, institutions (education, labour market) from a gender perspective, quantitative research methods.
  • Julia Kuznetski, Professor of English, School of Humanities: ecocriticism, ecofeminism, ecofeminist science fiction, transsectionalities, LGBTQ+ studies, trans studies, transecology, non-binary perspectives on gender, transcorporeality; women migrants, international mobility, gender and migration; gender, race, ethnicity, nationality and diaspora; gender and the body, female bodies; memory and trauma from a gender perspective, Herstory, mythology and symbolic language from a gender perspective, feminist perspectives on fairy tales. 
  • Birgit Poopuu, Associate Professor of International relations, School of Governance, Law and Society: feminist and decolonial perspectives in peace and conflict studies, intersectionality, gender in conflict resolution, the UN resolution 1325 "Women, peace and security", feminist and decolonial approaches to peace and anti-militarism, feminist and decolonial theories and methodologies in international relations.
  • Triin Roosalu, Associate Professor of Sociology, School of Governance, Law and Society: gender inequalities in the labour market.
  • Meril Ümarik, Associate Professor, School of Educational Sciences: gender perspectives on education, gender in vocational education and training. 
  • Maaris Raudsepp, Senior Researcher, School of Governance, Law and Society: gender and environmental psychology; gender, power and group relations (majority-minority relations, differences in perspectives etc.); gender in science and research: gendered research careers and research organisations.
  • Uku Lember, Head of School, School of Humanities: LGBTQ+ studies, history.
  • Paul Rüsse, Lecturer of American Literature, School of Humanities: ecocriticism, LGBTQ+ studies, gender and migration, diaspora studies. 
  • Pille Ubakivi-Hadachi, PhD Student in Sociology, Junior Researcher, Lecturer of Sociology, School of Governance, Law and Society: ethnic minorities from a gender perspective.
  • Katrin Tiidenberg, Professor of Participatory Culture, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School: self-presentation and identities in social media, visual culture and social media and their intersections with body normativity, mononormativity and heteronormativity.
  • Jaana Davidjants, Visiting Research Fellow, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School: gender, othering and Orientalism

  • Ksenia Shmydkaya, Lecturer of Slavic and Russian Studies, School of Humanities: women writers, gender and women's history (interwar period in particular), Eastern European feminisms, feminist literary criticism; historical genre, postmodern historiography, and literature/history relationship; digital humanities.