News from Aletta's affiliated professors
Prof. Dr. Saskia Wieringa designed the African Gender and Development Index (AGDI);
Prof. Dr. Mieke Aerts gave an interesting, inspiring and entertaining inaugural lecture on the 22nd of January 2010;
Prof. Dr. Renée Römkens is currently working on 'Realising Rights', a European research project; mapping the legislation on violence against women and studying best practices' in the application of this legislation. She also conducts a 'Feasibility Study on Standardization EU legislation on violence against women, children and sexual identity based violence' (both financed by the EC).
Prof. Dr. Gloria Wekker published, among other things, 'The Arena of Disciplines: Gloria Anzaldúa and Interdisciplinarity'. In: Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture. New York: Routledge; 'Another Dream of a Common Language. Imagining Black Europe'. In: Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press; and 'You May Be Able to Hide Your Grandmother, But You Cannot Hide Her Coughing... Reflections on Gender and Race in Higher Education in the Netherlands'. In: Gender Delight. Science, Knowledge, Culture and Writing… for Nina Lykke. Linkoping University, 99-113.
PROFESSORS
Aletta wants to promote and be a resource for academic study and research in the area of women’s and gender studies. Aletta currently has four affiliated professors.Professor Saskia Wieringa, PhD
Saskia Wieringa is Aletta’s director and holds the chair ‘Gender and Women’s Same-Sex Relations Cross-culturally’ at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences. Saskia Wieringa’s research deals with women’s relationships in the Global South, particularly in Asia and Africa.
Professor Mieke Aerts, PhD
Mieke Aerts holds the Wilhelmina Drucker chair (for research in the political history of gender in the Netherlands) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Faculty of Social Sciences. Previous to this appointment, Mieke Aerts was one of Aletta’s affiliated researchers. Since 2002, she has conducted research to determine how Aletta’s collections can be made optimally useful to academic researchers.
Professor Renée Römkens, PhD
Renée Römkens is professor ‘Interpersonal Violence, in particular Violence in Intimate Relationships’ at the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Her research especially focuses on the connections and intersections between sexuality and violence. The research programme receives financial support from Aletta. Renée Römkens is also a member of Aletta’s academic advisory council.
Professor Gloria Wekker, PhD
Gloria Wekker holds the Gender & Ethnicty chair at Utrecht University. The IIAV established this chair in 2002. Wekker is also the director of GEM, the expertise center in Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism. GEM is active in a variety of areas of study, including the sexual subjectivity of Afro-Surinamese women, the history of black, migrant and refugee women in the Netherlands, and gender and ethnicity in Dutch multicultural society.