Soodeh Mansouri is a PhD Student in the Department of Sociology. She will study Arabic during her IGI Language Fellowship.
Asmaa Elsayed is a PhD Student in Global Studies in Education. She will study Arabic during her IGI Language Fellowship.
Seung Deok Seo is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science. Seung Deok Seo’s research examines how shared organizational identity among women’s rights NGOs in Jordan fosters cooperation despite donor-driven competition. Using interviews, it investigates mechanisms linking identity formation to inter-NGO cooperation.
Azifah (Ina) Astrina is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Political Science. Ina’s research examines women’s live experiences on the island of Belakang Padang, Indonesia, within the securitized maritime border, using participatory mapping and interviews to analyze how gender norms and security governance shape women’s livelihoods, mobility, and space.
Jianing (Ginny) Lu is a PhD Student in the School of Information Science. Ginny's research examines how three major data-privacy regimes, regulate women's biometric and health data, asking why gender-neutral laws continue to produce gendered privacy harms.
Soodeh Mansouri, a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a GRID student, recently made a publication in Journal of Feminist Anthropology & Gender Studies, Issue 46 titled “Ink Against Erasure: Women’s Letters, Embodied Resistance, and the Iranian Green Movement." Click...-
Soodeh Mansouri, a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a GRID student, recently presented "From Sidewalk to Global Feed: Women's Video Activism and the Politics of the Body in Iran" at the 2026 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, in the session "Body Politics, State Power, and Resistance," organized by the Sociology of the Body and...
Joanna Adewunmi, a PhD Candidate in the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a GRID student, published a conference proceeding with the Information Research journal where she presented at the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Conference held in McGill University, Canada over the past summer 2026. Click...
Shaimaa Khanam, a PhD Candidate in the department of Communication at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a GRID student, has recently completed her first publication about communication and meaning-making related to ambiguous experiences of sexual violence. Click here to learn more.
Urooba Fatima, a PhD Student in the department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a GRID student, co-published an article “ Who is a responsible woman? Understanding the scope and characteristics of responsible womanhood amongst women in Karachi.” Feminist Anthropology e70060 this past July 2026. Click...