Meet The Collaborators
Dr. Susan Marine
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Susan Marine, Ph.D. is Associate Professor and Program Director in the Higher Education Master’s Program at Merrimack College.
For 25 years, Susan has led initiatives in higher education to respond to sexual violence, to educate others toward its prevention, and to advocate for survivors. Dr. Marine teaches courses in higher education history, theory, and practice, and her research centers on examining feminist and queer social justice praxis in higher education. Seeing the classroom as a mutually transformative enterprise, she is deeply committed to preparing future leaders to transform culture and to continually advance social justice in higher education and beyond. She is the author of Stonewall’s Legacy: Bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender students in higher education. Dr. Marine's work has been supported by grants from NASPA and ACUHO-I, among other organizations. Her recent publications have appeared in the Review of Higher Education, Women's Studies International Forum, the Journal of College and University Student Housing, Feminist Formations, and the Journal About Women and Gender in Higher Education. Susan and her wife live outside of Boston, where she is an avid hiker, supporter of folk music, and turophile |
Ruth Lewis is an Associate Professor in Sociology at Northumbria University in the UK.
Her work has been about gender-based violence (GBV) and includes the first UK evaluation of perpetrators programmes, an examination of women and men's experience of domestic violence and the law, a study of feminists' experiences of online abuse, and an exploration of feminism amongst university students. Her work about GBV and higher education includes edited books (Collaborating for Change: Transforming Culture to End Gender Based Violence, with Susan Marine, and Gender Based Violence in University Communities: Policy, prevention and educational initiatives, with Sundari Anitha) and, with Susan Marine, an edited special issue of Violence Against Women entitled Transforming Campus Cultures: Activism to end Gender-Based Violence. Ruth has been involved in activism around GBV for decades. This has included helping to run domestic violence charities, raising funds for CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) events, campaigning against lap-dancing clubs and for services for women, organising the North East Feminist Gathering, and designing and delivering training about GBV at university. She lives on the coast near Newcastle upon Tyne where she enjoys running on the beach and, occasionally, braving the North Sea. |
Dr. Ruth Lewis
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