Utrecht University

Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Distinguished University Professor, Humanities

Director of the Centre for the Humanities and Distinguished University Professor

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Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University.
She was the founding professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. She has successfully supervised 29 PhD dissertations and acts as an external examiner for top-ranked universities in the EU, North America and Australia.
In 2005–2006, she was the Leverhulme Trust, Visiting Professorship in the Law School of Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2001–2003, she held the Jean Monnet Visiting Chair at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European Institute in Florence. In 994-1995 she was a fellow in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.  She has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics; Birkbeck College; the University of the Arts in London; the Universities of Bologna; Tampere; Frankfurt; Buenos Aires; Melbourne and the European University Institute.
An active international net worker, she set up in 1989 the Network of Interdisciplinary Women's Studies in Europe (NOISE) within the Erasmus Programme. From 1997 to 2005 she was the founding scientific director of the SOCRATES Thematic Network for European Women’s Studies ATHENA, which was awarded in 2010 the Erasmus Prize of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Commission for outstanding contribution to social inclusion. In 2005- 2007 she was the founding Scientific Director of the Marie Curie Early Stage Training consortium  ‘Gender Graduates’,  funded by the Sixth Framework programme of the European Commission. In 2007-2008 she founded of the European Consortium for The Humanities in the Twenty-first Century; in 2009 she was elected to the Board of the International Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres (CHCI).

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