Gloria Wekker
Professor Gloria Wekker holds the Aletta-chair in gender and ethnicity in the Faculty of the Arts at Utrecht University and is the director of GEM, the Center of Expertise on Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Higher Education, at the same university.
Her research interests include the following themes: constructions of sexual subjectivity in the Black Diaspora; the history of the black, migrant and refugee Women’s Movement in the Netherlands; gendered and ethnicized knowledge systems in the Dutch academy and society; and Higher Education in the Netherlands. In April 2006, Columbia University Press published The Politics of Passion: Women’s sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora for which she received the Ruth Benedict Prize of the American Anthropological Association (2007).
Wekker participates in the development of multicultural and anti-racist gender theory in the Netherlands. Within Women's Studies, she situates herself as a representative of intersectional and transnational gender theory. In addition, Wekker writes poetry and prose and is on the editorial board of several international journals in the fields of the Social Sciences, Queer and Feminist Studies.
