CGD People
Sharon Anyango
PhD Candidate
Gendered (transnational) migration, Gender and Diversity, Race and Segregation
Project: Gender citation biases in academia with FEM, Diversity and Inclusivity in the classroom working group, BPoC students working group in Global Studies; Gender in Motion: Evolving gender expectations amongst East African Refugees in the Netherlands
Public partners: Diversity and Inclusivity Office, Female Empowerment Maastricht (FEM), Maastricht University.
Sara Atwater
PhD Candidate
Projects: LIMES: Borders in Europe, EU Horizon 2020, Gender in Humour Studies, Gender Performance and Parody in Cabaret, Gender in Post-Industrial ''Regions
Vasiliki Belia
PhD Candidate
Feminist movement, collective memory, graphic narratives, comics, feminist historiography
PhD Project: Redrawing feminism: graphic narrative engagements with the feminist past
Public partner: IHLIA LGBTI Heritage
Marc Boas
Teaching fellow
Media studies, digital ethnograpy, popular culture, visual culture, memes
Francesca Colli
Assistant professor
NGOs and social movements; European politics; environment and climate politics
Sally Wyatt
Professor
Digital technologies; healthcare; AI; STS; knowledge production
Project: RAIDIO: Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Decision Making
Bilisuma Dito
Assistant professor
Migration, Gender, Wellbeing, Transnational families, Intrahousehold gender relations
Project: Well-being, Women, and Work in Ethiopia (3WE)
Public partner: Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
Christin Höne
Assistant professor
Postcolonial literature and theory; sound studies; word and music studies; queer theory
Annemieke Klijn
Assistant professor
History of psychiatry and sexuology in the Netherlands 20th Century
Project: A biography about Coen van Emde Boas (1904-1981), freethinker, psychiatrist and sexologist
Noah Littel
PhD Candidate
Queer history, Queer and Women's Archives, Intersectionality, Heritage and Culture
Project: The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces
Public partners: IHLIA LGBTI Heritage, Atria: Kennisinstituut voor Emancipatie en Vrouwengeschiedenis
Ana Isabel Lopez Garcia
Assistant professor
Migrant transnationalism, remittances, gender norms, intimate partner violence, Latin America, the Balkans
Liang-Kai Yu
PhD Candidate
Queer arts, museum studies, curatorial studies, queer and race studies
Project: The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces
Public partner: Van Abbe museum
Flora Lysen
Assistant professor
Feminist STS, women in the history of science and technology, neurogenderings network
Project: RAIDIO: Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Clinical Decision Making project
Ilya Malafei
Lecturer
Cultural memory, decoloniality in Eastern Europe, performativity, new materialisms, protest aesthetics
Projects: Research assistant within the ERC-funded project Conspiratorial Memory; MA research on visual politics and gender in the Belarusian protests of 2020
Brigitte le Normand
Associate professor
Labour migration, transnational history, intersectionality, the Mediterranean
Pieter du Plessis
PhD Candidate
Queer and race studies, decolonial theory, political ecology, memory studies
PhD project: ‘Belonging and Unbelonging in Amsterdam’s Het Zuid-Afrikahuis: A Decolonial Study of Dutch Whiteness in Relation to Afrikaner Whiteness’
Christoph Rausch
Associate professor
Cultural Anthropology; Sociology of Art and Finance; Heritage Studies; Economic Humanities; Artistic Research
Project: LAsting Legacies: Contemporary Artists’ Estates Between PUblic Heritage and Private INheritAncE
Public partner: Trends4FI
Annika Richterich
Associate professor
Information technology, technofeminism, digital expertise, qualitative methods
Project: Learning to make IT: An intersectional approach to communities of practice for information technology specialists
Joris Roosen
Research director Centre for the Social History of Limburg
Societal organisations, heritage, gendered language
Eliza Steinbock
Professor, Director of the Centre for Gender and Diversity
Transgender studies, Sexuality, Embodiment, Visual culture, cultural inclusion and exclusion mechanisms
Projects: The Critical Visitor: Intersectional Approaches for Rethinking & Retooling Accessibility and Inclusivity in Heritage Spaces, Rewind and Record: Preserving the People’s History, Perverse Collections: Building Europe's Queer and Trans Archives
Supervisor on Diversiteit & Inclusie onderzoek
Public partners: Research Centre for Material Culture & National Museum for World Cultures, IHLIA LGBT+ Heritage, Atria: Knowledge institute on gender equality and women’s history, Van Abbemuseum, Imagine-IC, Studio i Platform for inclusive culture, Amsterdam Museum, izi.travel.com, The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Eye Film Museum, Het Nieuwe Instituut, ARIAS, Amsterdam University of the Arts, University of Amsterdam, TU Delft, Reinwardt Academy, Bonnefanten Museum, Frans Hals Museum Haarlem, Schwules Museum Berlin, TranScreen Amsterdam Transgender Film Festival, The Alice Austen House, MU artspace Eindhoven
Sandro Weilenmann
Post-doctoral researcher
Modern and contemporary art, sound studies, archival art, artistic concepts of subjectivity and authorship, queer and trans heritage
Project: PERCOL: Perverse Collections. Mapping Europe's Queer and Trans Archives.
Karlien Strijbosch
PhD Candidate
Gendered (Return) Migration, Masculinities, Ethnography, Sexuality and intimate relations, West-Africa (Senegal), gendered and racialized border regimes
Project: Challenging masculinities? The institution of marriage for young Senegalese migrant men under conditions involuntary return to Senegal. PhD in the Humanities.
Public partners: Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Faces of Science (KNAW)
Aagje Swinnen
Professor
Age and aging studies; cultural gerontology; critical dementia studies; literature and arts; intersections of age; gender, sexuality, and disability; the "age-friendly" university
Lauren Wagner
Associate professor
Mobilities, new materialism, interaction, ethnomethodology, belonging
Project: Care Matters: The making and valuing of homes in mobility
Yiming Wang
PhD Candidate
Media studies, popular culture, fandom, participatory censorship, internet literature
Project: Fandom and Participatory Censorship: Boys’ Love fiction and globalized activities across the Great Firewall of China (CSC funded)
Sophie Withaeckx
Assistant professor
Transnational adoption - diversity & decolonisation in higher education - gender-based violence
Projects: Normative understandings of 'humanity' in Western institutions (cases: higher education/transnational adoption), Intimate Partner Violence: Impact, processes, evolution and related public policies in Belgium
Levin Stein
Teaching fellow
Ethnographic Research, Participatory arts-based research, Performance Art, Cultural Studies
Daniella Pauly Jensen
PhD Candidate
Project: Ethnographich study of the data scientists at RTL, looking at how issues of “diversity” and “bias” are dealt with in every step of the process of designing, implementing, and evaluating AI systems for media
Public partners: RTL, UvA
Jaime (Jay) Simons
Creative Lab Technologist
Learning through play, critical making, digital storytelling, queer sound & soundscapes, augmented and extended reality
Anna Villarica
Teaching fellow
Media studies, critical making, creative pedagogies, social justice, online movements, popular culture
Project: Research assistant, working on OERs on Social justice in the Digital Humanities for #dariahTeach
Faisal Hamadah
Assistant Professor
Critical theory, postcolonial studies, marxism, Middle East studies, performance and visual cultures
Mauro Giordano
Teaching fellow
Project: Spread of online anti-feminism and misogyny, specifically about (italian) "Manosphere" and "Incel" communities (how the frames of those communities are made relevant to men and how they related to ongoing conceptualizations of masculinity)
Alice Wellum
PhD Candidate
Gender based violence, sexual violence, empowerment, self-defense, rape myths, academic writing
Project: Sexual violence prevention in higher education.
Sara De Vuyst
Assistant Professor
Ageing, feminism, cultural studies, arts, journalism
Project: (Queer) ageing in media, arts and culture / Hacking gender and technology in journalism
Daan Hovens
Assistant Professor
Sociolinguistics, journalism studies, border regions, (de/re-)industrialisation, posthumanism
Felix Bui
Teaching fellow
Amatonormativity, mediatization, queer representations in media, sexuality and intimacy, intersectionality
Laudy van den Heuvel
Teaching fellow
Environmental philosophy, political philosophy, human ecology, neurodivergence, political ecology
Shirin Ardalan
Teaching fellow
LGBTQIA+ interest representation in the EU, EU anti-discrimination policy, queer media representation
Ink Caanen
Teaching fellow
(Trans)gender theory, intersectionality, (international) politics, migration, journalism
Susan Schreibman
Professor
The intersections of computationally-based teaching and research in the interplay of the digital archive, cultural innovation, and participatory engagement design, processes and projects
Projects: PURE3D, Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, #dariahTeach, IGNITE
Willian Oliveira
Teaching fellow
Symbolic boundaries, cultural repertoires, gender, class, diversity, inclusion, stigma, migration, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism
Timo Makori
Assistant Professor
Coloniality, surplus populations, postcolonial sovereignty, gendered forms of exploitation, social reproduction
Project: Rich soils, empty hands: artisanal mining, historical generals and wageless life in the Congo Copperbelt
Public partners: The Rearrangement Collective; Urban Institute at Sheffield University
Emmanuelle Poinas
Teaching fellow
Contemporary literature and arts, critical mental health, (anti)capitalism studies, intersectionality
Mauro Giordano
Teaching fellow
Reactionary Social Movements, Manosphere, Masculinity, Online Misogyny and Anti-feminism, Social Phenomenology
Greta Carlevaro
Teaching fellow
Intersectionality, queer studies, critical dementia studies, contemporary literature & arts, engaged humanities
Kate Maguire-Rosier
Assistant Professor in Disability Studies and the Arts
Care; care ethics, care aesthetics, disability aesthetics, digital performance
Josje Weusten
Senior lecturer and Writer of Fiction
Creative Writing, Literary Fiction, Short Story, Utopian Fiction, Dystopian Fiction, Feminist Fiction
Sarah Kuhail
PhD candidate in Literature and Art
feminist arts and culture, feminist social movements
Léna Silberzahn
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
feminist political ecologies, decolonial reparations, care, antinuclear thought and activism
