Nisrine Chaer is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at Utrecht University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, migration studies, transgender studies, and Middle East studies. Her PhD project is an ethnographic study about geographies of home with a focus on queer & trans migration in the Netherlands and in Lebanon. This NWO-funded project is supervised by prof. dr. Berteke Waaldijk and dr. Layal Ftouni.
Previously, Nisrine graduated from the Gender & Ethnicity Master’s at Utrecht University where she wrote her thesis on queer activism in Beirut based on methodologies at the crossroads of cultural studies and ethnography. Nisrine also worked at Radboud University on an anthropological research on trauma and memory among Syrian refugees in the Netherlands. Her work has appeared in Kohl Journal for Body and Gender Research (2015), Global Dialogue (2016), Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2019), ZemZem (2020), Women Rising: Resistance, Revolution, and Reform in the Arab Spring and Beyond (NYU Press, 2020), and Crisis Magazine (2022).
