Prof. Dr. Stefanie Boulila is a transdisciplinary social scientist with a background in gender studies and sociology. As a feminist researcher, Stefanie is passionate about using critical theories and emancipatory research methods to advance understandings of intersectional inequalities in their material and symbolic dimensions. In 2021, Stefanie received an Emma Goldman Award and a grant of 50.000 Euro for her contribution to feminist research in Europe. She has been selected as an inaugural member of the Swiss Young Academy (2020-2025), a transdisciplinary network of excellent early-career scholars who advance the dialogue between science and society.
Stefanie is head of research at the Institute of Sociocultural Community Development at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). She is currently co-investigator and work package leader on the Horizon Europe project “RESIST - Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics”.
Her expertise extends into the following areas:
Race and racism in Europe
Intersectionality
Gender and LGBTQ Equalities
Cultural Politics
Her work has been published in the journals Ethnic and Racial Studies, Leisure Studies, EuropeNow, ACME: An International Journal of Critical Geographies, the European Journal of Women’s Studies and in various anthologies. She is currently co-editing the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Sexualities and Space.
Her monograph ‘Race in Post-racial Europe: An Intersectional Analysis’ (2019, Rowman & Littlefield International) explores how racial inequalities in Europe are maintained through the claim of being beyond them. Arguing against the analytical separation between post-racialism and post feminism, Stefanie proposes the notion of post-imaginaries, to study them intersectionally.
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