Gloria Wekker

Gloria Wekker is a socio-cultural anthropologist (PhD UCLA, 1992), and professor emerita in gender studies at Utrecht University. Besides her academic work, including The Politics of Passion (2006) and White Innocence (2017), she also writes poetry and prose. She is the 2025 recipient of a Distinguished Achievement Award of the Association of Queer Anthropology, a section of American Anthropological Association.