I am an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-director of the Amsterdam Center for the Study of Lived Religion at the same university. I hold the position of a research fellow and a member of the management team at the PACS (Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). I am widely published with 16 (co-) authored or edited books and over 60 journal articles and book chapters. Furthermore, I serves as the managing editor of Palgrave Studies in Lived Religion and Societal Challenges (Palgrave Macmillan). My primary research focus is on lived religion from both theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. I also research and write on theory and method in the study of religion. My interdisciplinary research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including religion and sexuality, war-related trauma, religion and extreme violence, religion and film, material culture/religion, religion and heritage, visual ethnography, and post-conflict reconciliation studies. I also teach at Amsterdam University College.   

Teaching Innovation

My current work focuses on visual theses, documentary filmmaking and multimodal assesment in higher education.

Current Teaching

Religion, Violence and Trauma (AUC)

Seeing is Believing (Visual Evidence Minor)

Filmmaking in Practice 

Conflict and Peacebulding (Peace and Conflict Minor)

Lived Religion and Trauma

Unmaking Man: Maculinities and Denial of Gender Plurality (NOG- Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies)

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