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Lise’s research focuses on the performance of modern war history in historical reenactment. She hereby analyzes how reenactors negotiate, mediate and experience contested histories, including (de/re-)colonisation in Indonesia, gender representation and the performance of suffering in relation to WWII in Europe. She works within the fields of visual and media anthropology, popular culture, and memory and heritage studies.

Loes Oudenhuijsen [Editor board member] 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.

Hamida is a PhD Candidate in Development and African Studies at the University of East Anglia and the University of Copenhagen. Her research centres around the experience of teenage mothers from religious communities in Sierra Leone. Through an ethnographic approach, she explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, religion and reproductive health.

Claire Delhumeau is a Junior lecturer in anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and a 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.

Paula is a researcher at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen and a junior lecturer at the Anthropology department of the University of Amsterdam. Paula researches informal support systems for survivors of partner violence. She focuses specifically on the role of hairdressers in the Netherlands in signalling and addressing partner violence amongst their clients. In September 2023, Paula will start a PhD position at the Anthropology Department of the Graduate Institute of Geneva, to do research on family (un)making in Uganda.