The Fellow conducted 9 research trips (Veracruz, Mexico, March 2022 & May 2022; Guerrero, Mexico, April 2022; Cali and Cúcuta, Colombia, June 2022; Bogotá and Cúcuta, Colombia, December 2022; San Salvador, March 2023 & July 2023; Sonsonate, El Salvador, November 2023; Mexico City and Tepoztlan, Mexico, March & April 2024), interviewing over 100 individuals in organizations in Mexico, El Salvador, and Colombia. She used 43 of the interviews to develop an interview guide and then created an online questionnaire, which was completed by (an additional) 113 women leaders in seven countries (Mexico, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Venezuela, and Ecuador). The Fellow now has a unique database that contains information about leadership factors, risk factors and protection needs, which will form the basis of a book (proposal under review).
The Fellow has published three peer-reviewed, open access articles in international journals. She has 2 additional articles awaiting decisions, and 4 more in the process of writing.
-Zulver, J. (2023). Complex Gendered Agency in Mexico: How Women Negotiate Hierarchies of Fear to Search for the Disappeared. European Journal of Gender and Politics.
-Stallone, K. & Zulver, J. (2024). The Gendered Risks of Defending Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Evidence from Colombia. Journal of Peace Research. [authors listed alphabetically].
-Zulver, J. M., Turiño, E., Córdova, E., Reyez López, A. M., & Zelmanovitz Axelrod, I. (2024). Connecting, Venting, and Doing the "Behind the Scenes" Work: Bringing Feminist and Decolonial Insights to a Comparative Digital Data Collection Project. Qualitative and Multi-method Research, 22(1), 41–52.
Furthermore, she has 1 forthcoming book chapter, 1 forthcoming book, and was a co-Editor for a forthcoming special issue in Global Studies Quarterly (in which she will also co-author the Introduction). Finally, she has a book proposal under review with Cambridge University Press.
-Zulver, J., and Stallone, K. (forthcoming). Brave Women: Fighting for Justice in the 21st Century. Palgrave Macmillan.
The Fellow undertook a wide variety of dissemination activities, including at multiple international conference participation. She additionally organized multiple panels androundtables, where she also participated, as well as invited academic experts from around the world to join her. She also presented her research in nine book talks, eighteen guest lectures, eight podcasts, and one keynote lecture. She published summaries of her research in four prestigious academic blogs. She wrote ten opinions, analyses, commentaries that were published in world-renowned outlets. She organized a special event about Mexico and feminist politics at the UNAM, where she invited world-ranking academics to participate. She co-organized and ran a three-day conference at the UNAM that compared high-risk feminist organizing in global perspective, and which culminated with a high-level, policy side event with members of the Canadian and Mexican Governments. Finally, she held a four day workshop for 17 high-risk women leaders from 11 countries (+7 facilitators) in Tepoztlan and Mexico City.