Emma Spruce - The Century Foundation

Emma Spruce is a lecturer in gender, sexuality, and identity in the Department of Politics at the University of Liverpool (UK). They research queer and feminist urban justice, with a particular focus on the racialized, classed, and sexual politics of housing, “regeneration,” and LGBT+ place-making.

AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 21: Demonstrators with a sign saying

Commentary Century International

Bringing Transnational Perspectives to Gender Studies

ERFURT, GERMANY - JANUARY 13: Bjoern Hoecke, head of the AfD (Alternative fuer Deutschland, or Alternative for Germany) in Thuringia, speaks to supporters at the first AfD Thuringia rally since the Cologne sex attacks on January 13, 2016 in Erfurt, Germany. Hoecke, who is on the far-right wing of the AfD, is demanding an immediate closure of Germany's borders to refugees and the expulsion of foreigners with criminal records. Over 500 women have filed charges including molestation, in some cases robbery and even rape following the gathering of hundreds of North African men, many of them were from Morocco and Algeria, at Cologne's Hauptbahnhof main railway station on New Year's Eve. The incident has caused heated discussion in Germany over the government's open-door policy for refugees. In 2015 Germany registered 1.1 million new migrants and refugees. (Photo by Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

Report Century International

The Politics of Moral Panics