Radboud University
Nisrine Chaer is a researcher whose interests lie at the intersection of queer & postcolonial studies, migration, Arab cultural studies, and anthropology. She graduated from the Gender & Ethnicity Master’s at Utrecht University where she wrote her thesis on the queer community in Lebanon based on methodologies at the crossroads of cultural studies and ethnography. She currently works at Radboud University on an anthropological research on trauma, identity and meaning-making among Syrian refugee youths in the Netherlands. She has published peer-reviewed articles in Women’s Studies International Forum, Kohl Journal for Body and Gender Research, and Global Dialogue, and three forthcoming chapters in edited volumes: Young Arab Women: Beyond Boundaries and Borders (McFarland Press), Women Rising: Resistance, Revolution, and Reform in the Arab Spring and Beyond (NYU Press), and Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (Charles Scribner’s Sons).