Nina ter Laan
Dr. Nina ter Laan is a member of the Mediterranean Liminalities Research Lab. As a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne, she is part of the CRC research program 'Media of Cooperation' within a subproject focusing on (digital) publics and social transformation in Morocco, directed by Martin Zillinger. She holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her dissertation, "Dissonant Voices: Islam-inspired Music in Morocco and the Politics of Religious Sentiments" (December 2016), explored the political instrumentalization of Islam-inspired music in Morocco. From 2016 to 2020, Nina was a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University, where she studied the hijra (Islamic migration) of Dutch and Flemish Muslim women to Morocco, as part of the 'Religious Matters in an Entangled World' research team led by Birgit Meyer. She is currently investigating the circulation of (post)colonial memory practices and digital media in the Rif, Morocco, and its diaspora in Europe. She is also involved in the conceptualization of art forms as a research method within participatory action research. Her research interests include aesthetic practices, material religion, migration, and the politics of belonging, with a particular focus on Morocco. She has published in several journals, including Religion and Contemporary Islam, and is co-editing a volume on Moroccan Islam. As a lecturer, Nina has taught and coordinated various courses at Leiden University and Utrecht University.
Contact: nterlaan[at]uni-koeln.de