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Joanna Burke
Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, (retired) and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. Bourke is the Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled ‘SHaME’ (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters, which explores medical and psychiatric aspects of sexual violence). SHaME is Directed by Dr Ruth Beecher. Bourke is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence (also published
by Chicago University Press) and Oxford University Press published Birkbeck: 200 years of Radical Education for Working People. Her books have been translated
into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish and Greek.
