Anthropologist and qualitative researcher with over a decade of experience conducting research with vulnerable populations. Specializing in participatory, ethical, and mixed methods research with lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ+) women and LGBTIQA+ groups; human rights; SOGI inclusion; intersectional data analysis; sexual and gender-based violence; sexual and reproductive health and rights; NGOs and community-based organizations; HIV/AIDS programming; and inclusive and diverse programming in development and nonprofit interventions.
LGBTQ, Child abuse, sexual abuse/assault, gender-based violence, forced marriage, FGC/FGM, human trafficking, Likelihood of destitution or homelessness, Ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution, Torture/Risk of political persecution/Risk from state actors, Risk from non-state actors, Risk of retaliation, Safe internal relocation, Sufficiency of Protection, Healthcare Access/Health systems capacity, mental illness, HIV/AIDS programming and access, sex work and prostitution, refugees, kinship, gender.
I have worked in LGBTQI issues in Ghana and Uganda, and directly with refugees: 1) qualitative research with LGBTIQ refugees from the DRC in Kampala, Uganda 2) education with Burma and Iraq refugees in San Diego, CA.
Tucker, H. (Forthcoming) “Vulnerability as a Method with Sexual and Gender Minorities in Transnational Research” New Tools for Transnational Analysis in Intersectional Feminist Research. Routledge: Abingdon
Tucker, H. (2019) “Masculinities, technologies, and counterpublics in urban Accra,” Routledge Handbook of Queer African Studies. Routledge: Abingdon
Nilson, M. et al (2019) “The Challenge of Unlearning: A Study of Gender Norms and Masculinities in Liberia,” Selima Consulting and the Centre for Peace and Justice Studies. Commissioned by the Embassy of Sweden in Monrovia, Liberia
Tucker, H. (2017) “Why Should There be Spaces for Queer Women, Led by Queer Women?”
Bliss: blog of ISS on Global Development and Social Justice. International Institute of Social Sciences: The Hague https://issblog.nl/2017/11/17/why-should-there-be-spaces-for-queer-wome…
King, R. (2016) “Planting Seeds: Funding Women’s Economic Empowerment, Abridged Report, 2016” Evaluation by Dr. Rudith S. King. African Women’s Development Fund: Accra http://awdf.org/wp-content/uploads/Planting-seeds-Funding-womens-econom…
Refugee Law Project (2012) Director and Producer. “Out of the Box”, A Refugee Law Project Film, 2012 http://youtu.be/V3C4z8M8998
Refugee Law Project (2012) Director and Producer. “Narratives of Change”, A Men Mobilizing Men Programme and Refugee Law Project Film, 2012 http://youtu.be/DbAr4gTa1kE