Academic staff
Sociology: Gender, Sexuality and Society (MSc)
The programme Gender, Sexuality and Society is organised by the Graduate School of Social Sciences of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam.
The academic staff of this programme is actively involved in research most of them at UvA's Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR).
Dr. Marie-Louise Janssen
Marie-Louise Janssen is the Track Coordinator of Gender, Sexuality and Society (MSc Sociology).
Marie-Louise Janssen lectures in the areas of gender and sexuality studies, migration and human trafficking and ethnographic research methods and techniques at the department of Cultural Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. She has published on prostitution, the sex industry and human trafficking, and her research activities are mainly centered on the way how processes of exclusion and inclusion, as well as the intersection between gender, ethnicity, class and citizenship take place and shape the experiences of (migrant) sex workers in society.
Margriet van Heesch
'Students want to be fed with new ideas about making sense of this world. To me lecturing for the Master's track Gender, Sexuality and Society is about the exchange of questions, fascinations, hopes, erudite analysis, and most important: asking questions.
- How are our capabilities of falling in love evaluated within our societies?
- How do people explain their pleasures, desires or hurt?
- How do intersections of sex, gender and sexuality humanize us or exclude us?
I use my interdisciplinary background to inspire students that find their way to Master's track Gender, Sexuality and Society at the University of Amsterdam. I start from Sociology and include for example Cultural Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, Philosophy, Queer Studies and Post Colonial Studies. Feminism, New Materialism, Post Structuralism, Discourse Analysis, Reparative Reading, Affect theory, Epistemology, and Genealogy. I am convinced that analysing the dominant hetero-normative discourses, the gender binary and the coital imperative generates hope and chance.'
Lecturers
Below is a list of lecturers in this programme. Click the name of a lecturer for more information (if available).