Philomena Essed

Philomena Johanna Maria Essed (born Utrecht, 1955) is a professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies at Antioch University Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Philomena Essed
Picture of Philomena Essed in 1984
Essed at the beginning of her career (Amsterdam, 1984)
Born1955 (age 67–68)
Utrecht, Netherlands
NationalitySurinamese / Dutch
Occupation(s)Writer, academic
Years active1990–present
Notable workEveryday Racism

Biography

Essed's parents are Surinamese. Her father Max Essed was a pediatrician. She grew up in Suriname and the Netherlands. From the age of fifteen she lived in Nijmegen, until moving in 1974 to Amsterdam.[1]

Career

In 1983, Essed passed her doctoral exams in cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and received her PhD cum laude in the social sciences in 1990 under the supervision of Chris Mullard.[2][3]

She worked at the University of Amsterdam from receiving her doctorate until 2003. She was a member of the Dutch Tijdelijke Expertise Commissie Emancipatie in het Nieuwe Adviesstelsel (Temporary Expert Committee on Emancipation in the New Advisory System) from 1998 to 2001, appointed by the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.[4] She served as a deputy member of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (College voor de Rechten van de Mens) from 2004 to 2016.[5][6] Between 2001 and 2005, she was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine. In 2005, she became a professor at Antioch University. She has also held visiting positions at Umeå University and the University of Johannesburg, and has served as faculty at the Black Europe Summer School since 2008.[6]

Everyday Racism

Essed is primarily known for her books Alledaags racisme (1984) and Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (1990). The latter, following its Dutch translation in 1991 (as Inzicht in alledaags racisme), created a strong reaction in the Dutch public debate.[1][7]

Recognition

Essed received honorary doctorates from the University of Pretoria in 2011 and Umeå University in 2015.[6]

In 2011, she was made a knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau.[7]

Published works
  • Alledaags racisme, 1984
  • Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (Inzicht in Alledaags Racisme), dissertation, 1990
  • Everyday Racism. Reports From Women of Two Cultures. Hunter House, 1990
  • Diversity. Gender, Color and Culture, University of Massachusetts Press, 1996
  • Refugees and the Transformation of Societies, with David Theo Goldberg, 2004
  • A Companion to Gender Studies, with David Theo Goldberg, 2009
  • Clones, Fakes and Posthumans: Cultures of Replication, Rodopi/Brill, 2012
  • Dutch Racism, with Isabel Hoving, 2015

References
  1. "Philomena Essed". Encyclopedia of Afroeuropean Studies. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  2. Arian, Max (28 April 1999). "IJskoud waar". De Groene Amsterdammer. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  3. "Professor Dr. Philomena Essed krijgt eredoctoraat". Starnieuws. 17 October 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  4. "Instelling Tijdelijke Expertise Commissie Emancipatie in het Nieuwe Adviesstelsel". Overheid.nl, een initiatief van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  5. "Prof. dr. Ph. Essed". College voor de Rechten van de Mens. Retrieved 18 July 2018.
  6. "Philomena Essed, PhD". Antioch University. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  7. Rasit Elibol en Jaap Tielbeke (24 April 2019). "'Het alledaagse was een blinde vlek'; De herwaardering van Philomena Essed". De Groene Amsterdammer. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
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