Board
Jasmijn Rana
Chair
Assistant professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University. Her research is characterized by a critical look at the contemporary society in which discussions on the embodiment, gender and race/ethnicity take centre stage.
Loes Oudenhuijsen
Editor-in-chief of Lova Journal
Loes is a PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre at Leiden University. Her research concerns transformations and continuations in gender norms in Senegal, through a focus on the positioning of sexually dissident women in society. Following the trajectories of a number of queer women, sex workers and feminist activists, she explores the debates that their agency engenders concerning the position of women and their sexual rights in society.
Tine Davids
General board member
Assistant professor at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research interests are Gender and Political Subjectivity, Gender Mainstreaming, Motherhood and Citizenship, Belonging and (Re) Migration, Feminist Ethnography, Narrative approach and Artistic Methods.
Ina Keuper
Treasurer
Retired in 2014 from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she has been lecturing and doing management tasks for nearly four decades.
Lise Zurné
Lova Journal Editor
Lecturer at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication in Rotterdam. Her PhD project on the representation of modern war history in re-enactment practices in Europe and Indonesia. One of the co-founders of Lova’s Working Group Safety in the Field and of ethnovision, a collective of five visual anthropologists who provide workshops on the use of visual methods in academic research.
Paula Vermuë
Lova Journal Editor
PhD candidate at the Anthropology and Sociology Department and research assistant in anthropology within the FamilEA project, both at the Graduate Institute of Geneva. Her research project focuses on family (un)making in Uganda. For her research master in Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam she did ethnographic research in South Africa. She also conducted a study on an informal support systems among clients of hairdressers as survivors of domestic violence in The Netherlands.
Claire Delhumeau
Lova Journal Editor
Junior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and textile artist. Her area of interest and research involves performing arts, dance, movement and processes of creation, with a focus on experiences of accuracy and alignment. Claire has a Bachelor and Master from …..
Ana Carolina de Assis Nunes
Lova Journal Editor
PhD candidate in anthropology at Oregon State University, working with cultures of computing and producing knowledge at the intersection of anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Her research interests include artificial intelligence, digital and data-driven technologies, and their makers in the US context. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from the Federal University of Goias, Brazil.