I am a cultural anthropologist from the Netherlands with a thematic expertise in Islam, aesthetic practices, politics of belonging, and migration. My regional expertise centers on Morocco. My PhD dissertation, which I defended in 2016 at Radboud University, examined the political usages of Islam-inspired music in Morocco. During my PhD, I was also a lecturer at the Departments of Cultural Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University. Between 2016 and 2020 I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University. There, as a member of the Religious Matters research team (led by professor Birgit Meyer) I studied home making practices and belonging among Dutch and Flemish Muslim converts who emigrated to Morocco. As of 1 November 2020, I work as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cologne and the Collaborative Research Center Media of Cooperation (CRC) on a project focusing on Digital Public Spheres and Social Transformation in Morocco. I am also affiliated as a guest researcher with the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University.
