Sophie Withaeckx is assistant professor in philosophy (UD1) at Maastricht University. Previously, she held post as coordinator and post-doc researcher at RHEA (Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel), and as lecturer and researcher at Odisee University College. She holds master degrees in African Languages [...]
Adriano José Habed works as an Assistant Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW), Utrecht University. He has been investigating the notion of queer critique and the discontents with it, focusing on the work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Eve K. Sedgwick, [...]
Maaike Muntinga (she/they) works as an assistant professor at the department of Ethics, Law and Humanities at Amsterdam UMC. Her research centers on diversity, equity and inclusion in health care. She specifically focuses on gender and sexuality, and the application of theoretical frameworks, such as intersectionality and queer theory, to everyday [...]
Sarah Bracke is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Amsterdam and the director of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, ARC-GS.Before joining the Sociology Department at the UvA in 2017, she worked as a senior researcher at the Center of Expertise on Gender, Diversity, [...]
Marieke van den Brink is Full Professor Gender & Diversity at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen and scientific director of Radboud Gender and Diversity Studies. The central themes of her research and teaching are gender and diversity in organizations, organizational learning and change, power and resistance and [...]
Annemie Halsema is Socrates professor of Philosophical Anthropology and the Foundations of Humanism, on behalf of the Socrates Foundation of het Humanistisch Verbond at Leiden University and Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research project is entitled: ‘Hermeneutics of the gendered, racialized and ageing body’. Most [...]
Liesbeth Minnaard is Assistant Professor of Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University. Her research focuses on the manifold cultural effects of migration and globalization, from a comparative & gender perspective. Current research projects explore exoticist configurations in fin-de-siècle literature and ambivalent notions of community in contemporary Dutch literature. Her publications [...]
Sarah De Mul is Professor of Literature, Culture and Diversity at the Open University in the Netherlands. Her publications and research interests are situated in the field of comparative postcolonial and gender studies with a particular focus on literatures in Dutch and English. Her projects explore adaptations of postcolonial theory in [...]
Liedeke Plate is Professor of Culture and Inclusivity in the Department of Literary and Cultural Studies of Radboud University. She publishes internationally on the subject of women, reading and rewriting, the material turn in literary and cultural studies, cultural memory, and gender and urban space. One of her current projects explores literature [...]
Eliza Steinbock is Chair in Transgender Studies, Art and Cultural Activism based in the Literature and Art Department at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. As chairholder, Eliza investigates inclusion and exclusion mechanisms operative in the art, culture, media, and heritage sectors and studies a range of [...]
Fleur Renkema is a PhD candidate at the department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University. Her project aims to write a cultural history of the gay and lesbian left in the Netherlands in the period of 1970-1990. Her research mainly focuses on the ideologies and cultural practices of leftist gay [...]
Kathrin Thiele is Professor of Gender, Culture & Ecologies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW) at Utrecht University. Since 2023, she directs the Graduate Gender Programme (GGeP). Trained transdisciplinarily in Gender Studies, Sociology, Literary Studies and Critical Theory, her research engages with questions of critical inquiry, ethics [...]
