Jasmijn Rana is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Her research is characterised by a critical look at the contemporary society in which discussions on gender, race-ethnicity, religion, embodiment and movement take centre stage. She has published on Muslim women, sports diversity in cultural heritage and decolonizing anthropology. Jasmijn is currently (2022-2023) a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.

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Short CV

Jasmijn Rana is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. She is also chair of the LOVA-Network for Feminist Anthropology and Gender Studies. She received her PhD in anthropology (magna cum laude) from Freie Universität Berlin in 2017. Jasmijn is currently (2022-2023) a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at University of California, Berkeley.

Research

Jasmijn’s research is characterised by a critical look at the contemporary society in which discussions on gender, race-ethnicity, religion, embodiment and heritage take centre stage. She has published on Muslim women, sports, diversity in cultural heritage, and decolonizing anthropology.

She is currently a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Global Fellow at University of California, Berkeley (2022-2023) and Leiden University (2023-2024) with the project Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging (EmbRace). This ethnographic research takes recreational running as an angle to investigate the effects of racialization on the relation to one’s own body, environment, and to other people.

Jasmijn is also a co-coordinator and senior researcher in the project At Home Otherwise: Rethinking Heritage Through Diversity, which investigates diversifying and democratizing heritage through practices of “home-making”.

Previously, she has collaborated in research projects on measuring diversity in the fields of museum and heritage, and race-ethnicity at Dutch universities. Her doctoral research focused on young Muslim women in kickboxing in the Netherlands, which resulted in the monograph Punching Back: Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women Only Kickboxing.

Publications