Part 1 & 2
Dr. Marie-Louise Janssen is a Cultural Anthropologist and senior lecturer in gender and sexuality studies at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She is one of the Academic Directors of the summerschool ‘Introduction to Sexuality Studies’, as well as a module coordinator in the ‘Summer Institute on Sexuality, Culture and Society’. Marie-Louise Janssen has published extensively on sex work, migration and human trafficking and lectures in the areas of gender and sexuality studies, migration and human trafficking and ethnographic research methods and techniques at the department of Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Her current research interests include, among others, Chinese massage parlours in the Netherlands, student sex workers and currently sex work in the former Dutch colony of Curacao in the Caribbean region.
Part 1
Eddy Chouity (MSc) is a junior lecturer at the bachelor and pre-master sociology program at the University of Amsterdam and is the Associate Academic Director of Introduction to Sexuality Studies. In 2017, he graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a master of science in social sciences from the gender and sexuality track. His dissertation handled the situation of Arab LGBTQI refugees coming from the Middle East and North Africa to the Netherlands. His interest lies at the heart of gender theories and sexualities and his ambition is to pursue a further in-depth exploration of sexuality, with a particular attention to the Arab world.
Part 3
Dr. Peter S Miller is a social anthropologist, ethnographer and educator specialised in the fields of Gender, Sexuality, Anthropology, Queer African Studies and Qualitative Methods. They have taught and lectured extensively at the University of Amsterdam on the subjects of gender, sexuality and qualitative methods, and were awarded their PhD in 2024 for their thesis entitled "In the Shadows of Respectability: Gendered Trajectories of Marital Dissidence amongst Dakarois Professionals". They hold a particular research interest in queerying normative structures and ideas, decolonial theories, and the empirical study of gender and sexuality, with a current focus on the intersectionality of sexual pleasure.