Dr. Agathangelou teaches in the areas of international relations and women and politics. Some of her areas of expertise are time and temporality in global politics, the body, time and ecology, international feminist political economy and feminist/postcolonial and decolonial thought. She is the co-director of Global Change Institute, Cyprus and was a visiting fellow in the Program of Science, Technology and Society at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard (2014-2015). She is currently involved on two multinational SSHRC partnership research projects focusing on sexual violence and human security, global governance, and biotechnology. She has researched ethnic conflict in Cyprus, as well as reconstruction in post-conflict societies with a focus on sexual violence, displaced peoples and the missing.

Dr. Sanober Umar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at York University. Dr. Umar is interested in the histories and politics of “racing” and gendering Islam as a religion and how these understandings in turn informs the figure of the Muslim in world politics. Her upcoming manuscript examines the relationship between caste hierarchies and racializing projects via the site of the Indian Muslim after the Partition, bringing multiple theories and understandings of gender, caste, race, and neoliberalism in conversation with one another. Dr. Umar completed her PhD as an Ontario Trillium scholar at Queen’s University in the Department of History and holds an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and an MA in International Politics and History from the Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development (Geneva, Switzerland). In addition to academia, Umar has worked with transnational organizations such as the International Organization of Migration (UN), World Vision, and the Centre for Migration Policy and Society at Oxford University. Her recent works have been published in the Journal of Cultural Anthropology, Religion and Gender, and Journal of Caste and Global Exclusion.

Dr. Nergis Canefe (PhD & SJD) is a Turkish-Canadian scholar of public international law, comparative politics, forced migration studies and critical human rights. She has held posts in several European and Turkish Universities and is a faculty member at York University, Canada since 2003. She regularly serves at the executive board of several international organizations, including International Association of Forced Migration Studies, and is the co-editor of Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security. She penned close to 100 scholarly articles and several books, Transitional Justice and Forced Migration (edited volume, 2019, Cambridge University Press), The Syrian Exodus (monograph, 2018, Bilgi University), The Jewish Diaspora as a Paradigm: Politics, Religion and Belonging (edited volume, 2014, Libra Press –Jewish Studies Series), Milliyetcilik, Kimlik ve Aidiyet (monograph, 2006, Nationalism, Identity and Belonging], Istanbul: Bilgi University Publishing House), and Turkey and European Integration: Accession Prospects and Issues (2004, edited volume with Mehmet Ugur, Routledge). Her most recent book is Limits of Universal Jurisdiction: A Critical Debate on Crimes against Humanity (University of Wales, International Law Series, 2021), to be followed by a volume on Unorthodox Minorities in the Middle East (Lexington Press) and Comparative Politics of Administrative Law in the Middle East. Her scholarly work appeared in Nations and Nationalism, Citizenship Studies, New Perspectives, Refugee Watch, Refuge, South East European Studies, Peace Review, Middle Eastern Law and Governance, Journal of International Human Rights, Globalizations, and, Narrative Politics. Professor Canefe is also a trained artist and her designs and murals have been showcased regularly since 2008.

Massarah Dawood is a PhD Candidate at York University, Canada. As well as a contract lecturer at Lakehead University, Canada. Her research interests include Decolonial thought, Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms, Social Reproduction theory, Gender Based Violence and anticolonial movements in the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on Iraq. She is in the process of completing her dissertation entitled: Land Dispossession, Violence and Social Reproduction: The Making and Unmaking of Iraq. She is deeply interested and invested in anti-colonial feminist solidarities.