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Researcher in the research group Violence in relations of dependency at Avans University of Applied Sciences in ‘s-Hertogenbosch on the impacts of various forms of interpersonal violence, such as domestic and gender-based violence, and the professionalisation of care for victims of these forms of violence. In 2025 she completed a PhD at African Studies Centre at Leiden University on the positioning of gender and sexually dissident women in Senegal, exploring how feminist activists, sex workers and same-sex desiring women relate to public debates and representations of gender and sexuality, and how they shaped their own sexually dissident lives.

Lecturer at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication in Rotterdam. Her PhD project explored how historical re-enactors engage with sensitive pasts of violence and colonialism in Europe and indonesia.. Lise is one of the co-founders of Lova’s Working Group Safety in the Field and ethnovision, a collective of visual anthropologists who provide workshops on the use of visual methods in academic research.

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.

Postdoctoral researcher in the Crafting Resilience project at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses primarily on the evolving relationship between the government and citizens in the Dutch welfare state, with a focus on the tensions between community-based work and traditional policy processes.  Janne is one of the co-founders of Lova’s working group Safety in the Field.