Gloria Wekker
Gloria Wekker is a social and cultural anthropologist with specializations in Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, African - American and Caribbean Studies. She worked as a Professor of Gender Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University and has been emeritus since 2012.
She wrote, among others, The Politics of Passion; Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora (Columbia University Press, 2006), for which she received the Ruth Benedict Prize from the American Anthropological Association in 2007. White Innocence came out in 2016. Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race in the Netherlands, which caused quite a stir at home and abroad.
She has held advisory positions for the Dutch government in the areas of minority, health care and emancipation policy. In 2015 and 2016, Wekker was a member of the Democratization and Decentralization Committee and chairman of the Diversity Committee at the University of Amsterdam. In 2017 she was named one of the ten most influential scientists in the Netherlands by Science Guide. She writes short stories and poetry.
She gives lectures and presentations in the Netherlands and abroad in the field of diversity, covering aspects of gender, race / ethnicity and sexuality. She also advises cultural, religious and commercial organizations in those areas.
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