Loes Oudenhuijsen

Loes Oudenhuijsen is a PhD candidate at the African Studies Centre Leiden. She holds a BSc in International Development Studies from Wageningen University, and an MA in African Studies (research) from Leiden University. At the ASCL she works on her own PhD-project about transformations and continuations in gender norms in Senegal, through a focus on the positioning of sexually dissident women in society. At the ASCL, she is furthermore involved in teaching in the (Res)MA African Studies. Loes is also an editorial board member of Lova, the Dutch association for feminist anthropology and gender studies. Additionally, she is a member of its working group Safety in the Field, which seeks to explore and discuss how ethnographic fieldwork can be taught and practiced in safer, inclusive and ethical ways. Loes has also been involved in the Voice4Thought foundation, and has published with Prof. Dr Mirjam de Bruijn on women in slam poetry.

Loes is currently (temporarily) also a Communications Officer at the African Studies Centre Leiden. She is responsible for the organisation of ASCL events, press information, and the ASCL annual report.