Project Leader: Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi

Sandra Ponzanesi is Chair and Professor of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies, at the Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, NL. She has published in the field of media, postcolonial studies, digital migration and cinema with a particular focus on Postcolonial Europe from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

She has led the ERC project ‘Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging’ CONNECTINGEUROPE and the PIN project “Postcolonial Intellectuals and their European Publics” funded by NWO (Dutch Research Council)  in collaboration with many European partners. 

She is coordinator of the Special Interest Group ‘Games and VR for Inclusion’ for the Focus Area Game Research. She is also co-coordinator of the IOS Platform Gender, Diversity and Global Justice and board member of the UU Focus area Migration and Societal Change and involved in the UU Centre for Environmental Humanities. 

She is the founding director of the PCI (Postcolonial Studies Initiative)

Research Assistant: Kathi Ammann (she/her)

Kathi Amman is a second-year research master’s student in the Gender Studies program at Utrecht University. She has a background in Social and Political Sciences and focuses academically on critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and politics of care in times of precarity.