Patricia Schor is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Art & Culture, History, and Antiquity at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with the project entitled “Figures of Race in Dutch Modernity: Blacks, Jews and Muslims,” for which she was awarded a Talent Scheme Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Ethics and Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen (RU). She remains a member of the Race-Religion Constellation Project (RU) and of the Race, Religion and Secularism Network (RU and University of Amsterdam).
She was previously a lecturer of Humanities and Social Sciences courses at Amsterdam University College, such “Race, Class and Gender Intersectionality” and “Sociology of the Other.”
Patricia obtained her MA at the International Institute of Social Sciences of Erasmus University Rotterdam and worked subsequently at Oxfam-Novib as Programme officer Lusophone Africa.
She received her PhD from Utrecht University on the afterlife of colonialism in Portuguese postcolonial literature and theory. In her dissertation she critically analysed the imagination of Portuguese colonialism as a benevolent encounter with “the African” (racialised other).
Patricia has published on gendered antiblackness, the afterlife of slavery, coloniality and the articulation of race and space, security and public order, across the Atlantic. She is a recipient of the 2017 Endowed Chair in Portuguese Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and of a 2009 Prince Bernhard Scholarship.