An Van Raemdonck

Centre for Research on Culture and Gender , Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Phone: +32 9 264 41 31
Email: An.Vanraemdonck@UGent.be

Research themes: Identity || Civil society, social work and solidarity || Participation, integration and transnational relations || Discrimination, racism and prejudice

An is a social anthropologist and Arabist with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East and Belgium. Her research interests include contemporary social and cultural debates that revolve around globalization, diversity, identity, gender and religion/secularism. She holds a PhD in Comparative Science of Cultures from Ghent University (2016) and was guest professor at the Department of Middle East Studies (2017-2018). Her doctoral research investigated campaigns against Female Genital Cutting in Egypt in relation to religion. An worked in a collaborative anthropological research project on the shifting meanings and contexts of early marriage and pregnancy among Syrian refugees in Jordan (VU Amsterdam, NWO) and a comparative European project on Islamophobia and radicalisation in Belgium (Bilgi, EUI - ERC). She currently investigates Islamic ethics and conviviality in Western superdiverse societies. She is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt).

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