PhD Students

Vinicíus Borges Garcia Fonseca is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University. His PhD project is entitled 'Cancelling as a Postcolonial Strategy for Repairing Cultural Heritage'.  The project will delve into the meaning and applications of canceling practices within antiracist and decolonial movements. The specific focus [...]

Christl de Kloe is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender Studies at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the mediation of sexual subjectivities in relation with femtech technologies. Drawing from postphenomenological theory, critical- and feminist phenomenology, and feminist technoscience, she critically investigates how technologies co-shape the body, self-knowledge, [...]

Robyn Ausmeier is a PhD candidate in the Department of Gender & Diversity at Radboud University. Her research focuses on doing Gender Studies in changing political climates in the Netherlands, examining the particular experiences of educators and researchers working in Gender Studies as well as related fields. The research employs qualitative [...]

Sharon Anyango is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University. She holds an MA in Globalization and Development Studies and an MBA in Project Management. Prior, she was a Teaching Fellow at FASoS and a staff representative in the University Council. Her research, funded [...]

Antonella Buono PhD project conduts a study on the consolatory reading of Christine de Pizan's Le Livre de la Cité des Dames (1405) at Philosophy department of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Christine's work has yet to be acknowledged as significant within the academic sphere and continues to be excluded from the established [...]

Rana Kuseyri (she/they) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University. Her project is tentatively titled, “Data Subjects: Algorithmic Imaginaries and Legal Consciousness of Welfare Recipients in the Dutch Datafied Welfare State.” Seeking to understand the everyday experiences of navigating the digital and datafied [...]

David Lyons is a joint PhD candidate at Utrecht University and the University of Bologna within the programme of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Diversity and Inclusion, specifically being part of the EDGES curriculum (women's and gender studies). The preliminary title of his project is Painting with Words: Re-Envisioning Gender Discourse and [...]

Weronika Zielińska-Klein is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM). Trained as an artist (BA, Willem de Kooning Academy, RUAS) and researcher (MAR, University of Amsterdam), she has been running Upominki, a project space in her family home [...]

Lisa Burghardt is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and part of the NWO funded project Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine:  Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. Within the project, she conducts research on how we can assess the experience of audiences being immersed in VR [...]

Laurence Herfs is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies and part of the NWO funded project Virtual Reality as Empathy Machine:  Media, Migration and the Humanitarian Predicament. She conducts research into the representation of refugees, migrants and the suffering Other within immersive and VR media technologies. For [...]

María Auxiliadora (Auxi) Castillo Soto is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, more specifically in Literary and Gender Studies; and she is part of the EUTERPE Project: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. For this project, she analyzes how European belonging and [...]