Research at Aletta

Aletta’s archives and collections provide extraordinary information and resources for scholars who are studying women and the women’s movement or who are conducting other research with a gender perspective. Would you like to be associated as a scholar or researcher with Aletta? Or are you interested in doing a research internship? Please contact our director, Saskia Wieringa.
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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 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.

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 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.

AFFILIATED RESEARCHERS

Professor Francisca de Haan, PhD

Francisca de Haan has been associated with Aletta since 1998. She is a professor of Gender Studies in the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Her research is focused on the comparative history of the transnational women’s movement in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Gisela Dütting, MA

Gisela Dütting is currently associated with Aletta as an adjunct researcher. She is conducting research on the European labor market trend of encouraging women’s entrepreneurship. She is looking at this subject within the context of globalization and the increase in informal work in the labor market. She is currently working on a publication emerging from the European Feminist Forum.
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Susanne Neugebauer, MA

Susanne Neugebauer is a professor of archival science at the University of Amsterdam as well as the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. She is also affiliated with Aletta, where she is conducting her PhD research on the archive of E.C. Van Dorp (1872-1945). Neugebauer poses the question whether or not Van Dorp consciously created her archive in order to remain remembered by posterity. The research on the process of archiving will together with parts of the virtual archive be presented in an interactive manner.
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Sunita Steenbakker, MA

Sunita Steenbakker is a medical anthropologist, who is affiliated with Aletta as a researcher. Her research focuses on perceptions of sexual behaviour and the construction of sexual identity among women from ethic minorities. An important aspect of this research is the ‘need assessment’ of sexual and mental health.

DAPHNE project researchers

Sara R . Farris, PhD

Sara Farris is currently Coordinating researcher of the Institute for Women's History (Aletta), Amsterdam, for the EC funded project Daphne III, Neskak Gora, which researches forms of violence and discrimination against adolescent girls and young women born and raised in the European Union, but belonging to migrant families from South Asia and North Africa. She is also Lecturer at the Graduate School of Social Sciences and at the Amsterdam University College, University of Amsterdam and a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. Her main research interests include: Classical and Contemporary Social and Political Theory, Migration Studies, Marxism and Feminism.
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Sara de Jong, PhD

Sara de Jong is a researcher on the EC funded project Daphne III, Neskak Gora working on the sociological dimension of violence and discrimination against adolescent girls and young women born and raised in the European Union, but belonging to migrant families from South Asia and North Africa. She is also assistant research manager of Aletta, Institute for Women’s History. Her main research interests include: Feminist theory, Postcolonial theory, Global citizenship, NGOs, Critical Pedagogy and Critical theory.
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