Gloria Wekker
Institute for Cultural Research (ICON) - Gender Studies
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Prof.dr. GD (Gloria) Alarm Clock is a social and cultural anthropologist (UvA 1981), with specializations in Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, African American Studies, and Caribbean Studies. Since 2001, she has occupied the Aletta (IIAV) Chair Gender and Ethnicity at the Faculty of Humanities. She is also the coordinator of the one-year Master of Comparative Women's Studies in Culture and Politics. She is also director of GEM, Expertise Center Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism in Higher Education. This organization advises, develops tools and conducts research in the area of ​​gender awareness and intercultural education of higher education.
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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Alarm clock, GD (2012). http://www.encyclopediaofafroeuropeanstudies.eu/ .
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Alarm clock, GD (2012). Book Review The History of Suriname . Public Management , No. 11, (pp. 30-31) (2 p.).
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Alarm clock, GD (2012). What's Identity Got To Do With It? Rethinking identity in light of the Mati work in Suriname. In Y. Hume & A. Kamugisha (Ed.), Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press.
