Dr. Catrien Notermans

Catrien Notermans is an anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She worked for both the Anthropology Department and the Institute for Gender Studies at Radboud University when completing her PhD research on Christian polygyny in Cameroon (1999) and her post-doctoral research on child fosterage and motherhood in that same country (2001). Her research activities have expanded to Francophone West Africa (Guinea) and Europe (Netherlands and France) with a focus on migration, family dynamics, and transnational kin networks of African migrants in Europe. Another field of specialization is religious mobility: pilgrimage in Europe, religious practices of migrants, and journeys to sacred landscapes in India. Her most recent research is on gender and religion in human-nature entanglements in urban and rural India.