Research Associate CAVA University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT 0113 343 1867 natalia.gerodetti@iepi.unil.ch

An Associate Researcher with CAVA, Natalia is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Lausanne working on a project on Eugenics and Politics: Social and Political Implications of Eugenics in Switzerland in a Comparative Perspective. It is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF).

Her wider research interests are in the area of gender, sexuality, identity, politics and more specifically their intersection with eugenics and new genetic politics. She holds a PhD from the University of Leeds where she has written a thesis entitled Modernising Sexualities: Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of Sexualities in the Swiss Nation.

Natalia is also a co-editor of _thirdspace_, an online journal for emerging feminist scholars.

Forthcoming Publications

(forthcoming, 2004) "Lay Experts": Women's Social Purity Groups and the Politics of Sexuality in late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Switzerland", Women's History Review.

(forthcoming, 2004) "From Science to Social Technology - Eugenics and Politics in Twentieth Century Switzerland", Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society