My research focuses on diversity politics, the dynamics of whiteness, and institutional change within academic contexts, with a focus on the intersections of ethnic-racial and gender inequalities. To that end, I combine critical race, feminist and decolonial perspectives to understand the academy as a key site where ethnic-racial and gender inequalities are being (re)produced. For my dissertation (PhD degree in Sociology, obtained in 2023 at VU) and postdocs (department of Sociology, VU, 2022-2024), I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in and across Dutch universities where I conducted observations of diversity events, critical discourse analysis of diversity policy documents, and interviews with diversity practitioners as well as academics marginalized on the basis of gender, ethnicity/race, religion, sexuality and body-ableness. In my work, I draw attention to the limitations of diversity policies for enacting structural and meaningful change while also exploring the possibilities for reimagining and being in academia otherwise. Some of my publications discuss embodying a diversity problem, white time politics in diversity policies and diversity as complaint work. Currently, I am working on how the intersection of gender, race/ethnicity and religion shapes the experiences of academics of colour and Muslim academics in higher education
