Presenters
Dr. Jacquelyn Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf Chair and a Professor in the Johns
Hopkins University School of Nursing with a joint appointment in the Bloomberg
School of Public Health. She has conducted advocacy policy work and research
on violence against women since 1980 and has published numerous articles and
books on the topic. Dr. Campbell has been Principal Investigator on major NIH,
NIJ and CDC research grants and co-chaired the Steering Committee for the
WHO Multi-country Study on Violence against Women and Women’s Health.
She served on the US Department of Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence
and the Board of Directors of the House of Ruth Battered Women’s Shelter and
the Family Violence Prevention Fund.
Ana Carcedo is a Costa Rican feminist, activist and academic. She is the
president of CEFEMINA (Feminist Center for Research and Action), a professor
of women’s studies and a researcher on violence against women. She is also the
co-author and co-investigator for the study “Femicide in Costa Rica 1990-1999”
and is coordinating a forthcoming study on femicide in Central America.
Dr. Rebecca Emerson Dobash is Professor of Social Research and Dr. Russell
P. Dobash is Professor of Criminology in the School of Law, University of
Manchester. They have co-authored several books, government reports and
articles on violent men and violence against women. The main focus of their
research is the policies and interventions relating to violence. They undertook the
first national study of Murder in Britain and other studies including on violence
against women; child sex abusers; evaluation of criminal justice based treatment
programs for violent men; bodybuilding, steroids and violence; and men’s and
women’s responses to televised violence.
Dr. Julia E. Monárrez Fragoso is a researcher at the Colegio de la Frontera
Norte in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. She has a doctorate in social sciences with a
specialty in women’s studies and gender relations from the Universidad
Autónoma Metropolitana. Her area of specialization is feminism, gender and
violence. She has published various articles on feminicide in Ciudad Juárez and
is co-author of the books Violence against women along the Northern Mexican
border and the forthcoming Violence against women and public insecurity, and
the author of Serial sexual feminicide in Ciudad Juárez 1993-2004.
Rana Husseini is a human rights advocate and award winning journalist at The
Jordan Times who has focused on violence against women and the brutal crimes
committed against Jordanian women in the name of family honor. Her coverage
of and dedication to ending this unjustified practice helped raise national
awareness on a topic traditionally considered taboo. Until The Jordan Times
began reporting on so-called crimes of honor, the local press shied away from
the issue. The government responded by introducing legal changes imposing
tougher punishments for perpetrators of such crimes.
Dr. Virendra Kumar is a Professor and Head of Forensic Medicine at Aarupadai
Veedu Medical College, in Pondicherry, India. He has co-authored several
papers and studies related to dowry deaths and bride burning in India, including
a chapter in the book Violence and aggression around the globe. He also served
as Head of the Forensic Unit in the Department of Pathology at the University
Malaya, Malaysia and the external examiner of Forensic Medicine in Rangsheit
University, Thailand.
Dr. Glendene Lemard is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. She has her PhD in International Relations from the
University of Miami and her postdoctoral training in Health Policy and
Management from Harvard School of Public Health. Her current research
interest is violence prevention in developing countries. She has conducted
research on crime and violence in Jamaica, including on homicides of women, for
the past ten years.
Shanaaz Mathews is a researcher with the Gender and Health Unit of the South
African Medical Research Council. She holds a Masters in Public Health and is
currently a PhD candidate. Her research interests include gender based violence
with specific reference to intimate femicide and child sexual abuse. She was a
co-researcher and co-author of Every six hours a women is killed by her intimate
partner: a national study of female homicide in South Africa and the forthcoming
“Intimate femicide-suicide in South Africa.”
Dr. Diana Russell is a Professor Emerita of Sociology at Mills College, Oakland,
California, and the co-author/ co-editor of seventeen books, mostly on sexual
violence. She first used the term femicide when she testified about this crime at
the International Tribunal on Crimes against Women in Brussels in 1976. She
also co-edited the first book ever published on femicide: Femicide: The politics of
woman killing, co-edited with Jill Radford, in 1992. A book she co-edited with
Roberta Harmes, Femicide in global perspective, was published in 2001.