Connie Christiansen

Dr. Connie Carøe Christiansen is a visiting associate professor in Gender Studies. She was an associate professor at Roskilde University in Denmark and a senior advisor at KVINFO, the Danish Centre for Research and Information on Gender, Equality and Diversity, where she managed academic programs in the Arab region, including a program which established an M.A. program on International Development and Gender at Sanaa University in Yemen. She has published research on gender, migration and Islam in Denmark, Turkey, Morocco and Yemen. She has her M.A. in Cultural Sociology and Ph.D. in Anthropology from Copenhagen University, Denmark.
Publications:

Teaching Gender in a transnational perspective – challenges, resistances and strategies. Women, Gender and Research 2016 no. 2, 7-19 (with Diana Højlund Madsen)
“To this day I cannot believe the abuse.” (Interview with Zainah Anwar, Head of Musawah). KVINFO’s Web Magazine, Jan. 16th 2016 http://kvinfo.org/web-magazine/day-i-cannot-believe-abuse