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Dr. Mariske Westendorp is an Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University. She specializes in the anthropology of religion, urban deathscapes, and migration studies. Her work examines intersections of religion, urbanization, and cultural practices, particularly focusing on burial spaces, migrant communities, and religious materiality. She co-authored New Perspectives on Urban Deathscapes (2023) and contributed to research on Islamic burial practices in Europe and translocal cemetery dynamics.
Research Interests: Her research explores lived religion in urban contexts, including death rituals, religious materiality, and public contestations over sacred spaces. She investigates how urbanization shapes religious practices and vice versa, with a focus on Hong Kong, Europe, and Asia.
Teaching: She teaches courses on Anthropology of Death, Cultural Anthropology theory, and scientific writing methods. Her pedagogy emphasizes ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative research.
Publications: Her recent work analyzes burial policies in Luxembourg, Islamic cemetery adaptations in Northern Europe, and Buddhist activism in Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. She has published in journals like Culture and Religion and Religions, focusing on ethnographic studies of urban religious practices.
Awards: No specific prizes mentioned, though her research has been cited widely in migration and urban studies literature.
