Geena Carlisle is a doctoral researcher on the DEMFAM project, funded by the ERC and led by Dr. Jana Tschurenev. She received a BA (hons.) in History and Politics from Newcastle University in the UK, also studying for one year at Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2024, she graduated from Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with an MA in Global History (thesis titled: “Negotiating Race and Gender under Settler Colonialism: Case Studies from Twentieth-Century Aotearoa New Zealand”). Geena has also worked for the 1914-1918-Online project at Freie Universität and on the PhD team at the Hertie School. Her main interests are global gender history, (post)colonialism, and feminist approaches. In 2023, she published an article on “Contesting Assumptions of Second-Wave Feminism: Māori Women’s Action in 1970s Aotearoa New Zealand” (Lilith: A Feminist History Journal no.29 (2023), 51-71.).