Honours & awards

2018 – Core Fellowship Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (as Research Director) – declined

2018 – Elected board member of the International Association for the Study of Religion and Gender

2017 – Prize awarded by the Belgian Institute for Equality between Women and Men 

2017 – Visiting Professor: Institut für Diversitätsforschung, Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen

2016-2017 – Visiting Professor: Zentrum für Transdisziplinäre Geschlechterstudien, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2016 – Staff mobility grant ‘Lotus Unlimited: Erasmus Mundus Action Two Partnership (EMA2) of European and South-East Asian Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and Associations’, visiting fellowship at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia – declined

2015 – Visiting Professor: School of Social Sciences, University of Hull

2009-2011 – Postdoctoral Award – Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders

2009 – Laureate of the Dr. Schamelhout Prize for Anthropology 2005-2009, Royal Academy for Medicine of Belgium

2009 – Visiting scholar: Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp

2006 – Visiting scholar: SOAS, University of London

2005-2009 – Postdoctoral Award – Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders

2005 – The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Research Award for the project ‘Life Stories of Orthodox Jewish Women in Antwerp: Negotiating Identity, Autonomy and Belonging’, Brandeis University, USA

2002 – Visiting scholar: Women’s Studies in Religion, Harvard University

2002-2005 – Postdoctoral Award – Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders

1998-2002 – PhD scholarship – Research Foundation Flanders

Award ceremony Institute for Equality between Women and Men, Brussels, 2017