Dr. Rahil Roodsaz
🇬🇧 Rahil Roodsaz is the principal investigator of the Rhythms of Love project. Additionally, she conducts the sub-project in Amsterdam, using rhythm as an analytical lens to study the ebbs and flows of an enduring relationship at midlife. She is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. In 2015, she obtained her PhD, Sexual Self-Fashioning among the Iranian Dutch, at the Institute for Gender Studies of the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her current research and teaching revolve around the political potential of love from feminist, queer, and decolonial perspectives.
🇳🇱 Rahil Roodsaz is de hoofdonderzoeker van het project Ryhthms of Love. Daarnaast voert zij het sub-project in Amsterdam uit waarbij ze ritme als analytisch kader gebruikt om de eb en vloed van een langdurige relatie tijdens midlife te bestuderen. Zij is als univeristair docent werkzaam bij de afdeling Antropologie van de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Ze behaalde haar PhD, Sexual Self-Fashioning among the Iranian Dutch, aan het Instituut voor Genderstudies van de Radboud Universiteit van Nijmegen. Haar huidig onderwijs en onderzoek richten zich op de politieke potentie van liefde vanuit feministische, queer en decoloniale perspectieven.
Avery Franken
🇬🇧 Avery Franken is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She holds an RMSc in Social Sciences from the UvA and a BA in Political Science and Linguistics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Her previous work focused on queer life in Amsterdam, Avery’s sub-project within Rhythms of Love is entitled “Knowing Love Differently: A Multimodal Engagement with Enduring Romantic Love at Midlife in Malmö, Sweden.” It will pay particular attention to affect, and the use of experimental, collaborative methods in anthropological work on love, intimacy, and interpersonal memory.
🇸🇪 Avery Franken är doktorand i antropologi vid Universitetet i Amsterdam (UvA). Hon har en RMSc i samhällsvetenskap från UvA och en BA i statsvetenskap och lingvistik från McGill Universitetet i Montreal, Kanada. Hennes tidigare arbete har fokuserat på queerliv i Amsterdam. Averys delprojekt inom Rhythms of Love heter ”Knowing Love Differently: A Multimodal Engagement with Enduring Romantic Love at Midlife in Malmö, Sweden” (På svenska: Att känna kärlek på nytt: ett multimodalt engagemang i varaktig romantisk kärlek i medelåldern i Malmö, Sverige). Det kommer att fokusera särskild på affekter och användningen av experimentella, kollaborativa metoder i antropologisk forskning om kärlek, intimitet och interpersonellt minne.
Jasmine Bruce-Rogers
🇬🇧 Jasmine Bruce-Rogers (she/her) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She completed an integrated Master of Languages at the University of Southampton, UK, and her Master’s thesis investigated the intersection between disability and food. Within Rhythms of Love, Jasmine’s sub-project is entitled “The Nonsense of Enduring Love: Midlife Bodies Sensing Love in Kreuzberg, Berlin”. Thinking particularly about the temporal qualities of enduring love, The Nonsense of Love focuses on everyday sensations and the development and maintenance of rhythms for long-term romantic relationships.
🇩🇪 Jasmine Bruce-Rogers (sie/ihr) ist Doktorandin am Institut für Anthropologie der Universität Amsterdam (UvA). Sie hat einen integrierten Master-Abschluss in Sprachen an der Universität Southampton, Großbritannien, erworben und sich in ihrer Masterarbeit mit der Schnittstelle zwischen Behinderung und Ernährung befasst. Innerhalb von Rhythms of Love trägt Jasmines Teilprojekt den Titel „The Nonsense of Enduring Love: Midlife Bodies Sensing Love in Kreuzberg, Berlin” (auf Deutsch: der Unsinn der andauernde Liebe: Liebe spüren in der Lebensmitte in Kreuzberg, Berlin). Mit besonderem Blick auf die zeitlichen Qualitäten dauerhafter Liebe konzentriert sich Der Unsinn der Liebe auf alltägliche Empfindungen und die Entwicklung und Aufrechterhaltung von Rhythmen für langfristige romantische Beziehungen.
Luisa Voss
🇬🇧 Luisa Voss (she/her) is a junior researcher with a RMSc in Social Sciences, working between the departments of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. She engages with themes in the realm of social movements, love and body politics, cultural trauma and Iranian women’s resistance and activisms from the perspective of affect theory, feminist and critical theories, and gender studies. She is currently part of the projects “The Woman, Life, Freedom Uprising in Iran – Women’s Activism and the Shifting Grounds of Religion” (Dr. Ladan Rahbari) and “Rhythms of Love: Enduring Romantic Relationships at Midlife” (Dr. Rahil Roodsaz).
Dr. Tara Asgarilaleh
🇬🇧 Dr. Tara Asgarilaleh (she/her) will be taking up a postdoctoral position in September 2025, in the Department of Anthropology at UvA, as part of the project Enduring Romantic Love in Midlife in the Digital Society. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, where her research explored how involuntarily childless men in contemporary Iran engage with and access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) within the country’s socio-cultural, political, religio-legal, and medical frameworks.
Willeke Duijvekam
🇬🇧 Willeke Duijvekam is the professional photographer for Rhythms of Love project, where she works to capture the everyday rhythms and nuances of participants’ relationships.
Duijvekam is a documentary photographer working on long-term projects and commissions both in the Netherlands and abroad. Creating stories about people who follow a different path than most people do, her photographs focus on human relationships and everyday emotions. She graduated from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam in 2006. Her work has appeared in publications such as Vrij Nederland, de Volkskrant, NRC, and various international media. She has received several awards, including multiple PANL Awards, the Dutch Photo Academy Award, and a Silver Camera Award in the portrait category. In 2011, she received a World Press Photo Award for her series Eva (2007 – 2011), about a teenage girl experiencing gender dysphoria.
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