Meet the Leadership
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Co-Directors
Emily Bent, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies. Her research explores how girl-activists engage in social justice movements within transnational contexts. Over the last fifteen years, she has conducted fieldwork with more than 100 girl-activists engaged in the girls’ rights movement at the United Nations.
Marcella Szablewicz, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies. Her research focuses on youth and digital media, with a dual emphasis on moral panics about new technology and the ways that digital media can empower or exclude marginalized voices. Szablewicz conducts fieldwork in China, where she lived for a number of years.
