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Amy Abdou teaches sociology and cross Lida M. van den Broek, PhD, is organizational cultural management at Nyenrode New anthropologist and founder/director of Business School and Webster Kantharos (1983). Kantharos is the oldest University. She worked as a program consultancy for managing cultural diversity manager for the National institute for the in the . Lida published on study of Dutch slavery and its legacy, racism, the position of women, and on co-creating the Summer School on Black bullying, intimidation and discrimination Europe with Dr. Kwame Nimako. at work.

Miriyam Aouragh, PhD, was national Rebecca Parker Brienen is Vennerberg organizer of the Dutch anti-racism coalition Professor of Art and Head of the Department between 2004 and 2008. She currently lives of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History at in the UK where she studies and teaches Oklahoma State University. Dr. Brienen is a the political implications of the Internet at specialist in early modern Dutch visual culture Oxford University. See http://miriyamaouragh. with a focus on travel and cross-cultural blogspot.ncom for a comprehensive list of contact. The Dutch artists Frans Post and publications and activist campaigns in which Albert Eckhout, who both spent time in Brazil she is involved. in the seventeenth century, have been a particular focus of her research. Pooyan Tamimi Arab (b. 1983, Isfahan) is a PhD candidate at the Cultural Anthropology Esther Captain, PhD, is a historian department of Utrecht University. He holds and senior researcher at the National two B.A. degrees in Art History and Committee May 4 and 5 in Amsterdam, Philosophy from the University of the Dutch organization for the Amsterdam, and a M.A. degree in Philosophy commemoration of the Second World War. from the New School for Social Research, At present she is writing a book on New York City. His main research interests generations and their view on freedom in include political theories of secularism, the postwar Netherlands (due 2015). Her material religion, and the anthropology of specialisms are the heritage of the Second religion in general. He is currently writing his World War in the overseas territories of dissertation, which is on mosque aesthetics nowadays Indonesia, Surinam, Aruba and in the Netherlands. Curaçao, postcolonial memories and histories. The works she has written include Eltje Bos, PhD, is director of the school for Overseas War Legacy: The Legacy of World social cultural work at the University of War II in the Former Dutch Colonies (in Applied Science in Amsterdam. She is the Dutch, 2010) and Traces of Slavery in owner of Vaverra consult. As a consultant Utrecht: A Walking Guide (2012). (from 1998) she has worked in the Netherlands and South Africa as a Philomena Essed is professor of Critical researcher, advisor and manager in the Race, Gender and Leadership studies, sociocultural field. Until 1998 she held a Antioch University (USA), PhD in Leadership management position at the Dutch Ministry and Change Program. She has a PhD from of cultural affairs. Her dissertation the (1990) and an (University of Amsterdam, 2011) addresses Honorary Doctorate from the University of the issue of cultural policy and immigrants Pretoria (2011). Well known for introducing in the Netherlands. the concepts of everyday racism and

The Contributors | 417 gendered racism, her work has been Europe (with S. Alghasi and T.H. Eriksen, adopted and applied in a range of countries. 2009) and (with Haideh Moghissi) Muslim Books and edited volumes include Everyday diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Racism; Understanding Everyday Racism; Home and Belonging (2010). She has Diversity; Refugees and the Transformation published extensively on topics such as of Societies; Race Critical Theories; identity, diasporic positioning, cultural A Companion to Gender Studies (“outstanding” diversity, and emancipation. See also: 2005 CHOICE award); and, Clones, Fakes www.hallehghorashi.com and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication, (2012). Isabel Hoving is diversity officer at the Leiden University. She is also affiliated Evelien Gans is professor of Modern Jewish with the Department of Film and Literary History, University of Amsterdam and also Studies of Leiden University, with focus on affiliated to the Netherlands Institute for postcolonial theory (also in the Netherlands), War-Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD). cultural analysis, gender studies and Her publications include Gojse nijd & joods ecocriticism. Her study on Caribbean migrant narcisme (Goyish envy & Jewish narcissism); women writers, In Praise of New Travellers, De kleine verschillen die het leven uitmaken, was published in 2001 by Stanford UP, and a study of Dutch Jewish social-democrats she was the editor of Veranderingen van het and socialist-zionists in the 20th century alledaagse (SdU, 2005), a volume on post- (Henriëtte Roland Holst award); and a war Dutch migration. She co-edited several double biography on the Dutch-Jewish father other volumes on migration, Caribbean and son Ischa en Jaap Meijer (Henriëtte literatures, African literature and art, and Boas award). Since 2010 she leads the has just completed a monography on the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific intersections of postcolonial theory and Research funded project The Dynamics of ecocriticism. She is member of different Contemporary Antisemitism in a Globalising international editorial boards, for example of Context. Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex, and Race. In addition to her academic work, she is an David Theo Goldberg is Director of the awarded youth writer. system wide University of California Humanities Research Institute and Executive Dienke Hondius is assistant professor of Director of the MacArthurUCI Research Hub history at VU University Amsterdam and in Digital Media and Learning. The latter is Amsterdam University College, and staff the international center coordinating all member on international affairs at the research for the MacArthur Foundation House. She has published initiative in connected learning. He is a extensively on the history of antisemitism Professor in Comparative Literature, and race relations in the Netherlands. Anthropology, and Criminology, Law and Among her books are Return, a study of Society UC Irvine. He has written extensively post-Holocaust antisemitism; Mixed on race and racism, law and society, on Marriages, Mixed Feelings; Absent, a book critical theory, and digital media’s impact on about the segregation of Jewish school higher education. children in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation; and Oorlogslessen, about Halleh Ghorashi is professor of Diversity and educational memorial culture about the Integration in the Department of Sociology, Second World War and the Holocaust. VU University Amsterdam. She is the author Current research projects include of Ways to Survive, Battles to Win: Iranian “Mapping the European history and Women Exiles in the Netherlands and the legacy of slavery and the slave trade.” United States (2003). She co-edited among others the volumes Paradoxes of Cultural Joseph D. Jordan is an independent scholar Recognition: Perspectives from Northern who received master’s degrees in

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