Zuleika Sheik

Dr. Zuleika Sheik is an Assistant Professor of Decolonial Approaches, Gender, and Black Studies at Utrecht University's Faculty of Humanities. She is affiliated with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry and teaches in the MA programs in Arts and Society and Gender Studies. Her work bridges academic scholarship, poetry, and activism, particularly focused on Palestine solidarity.

• PhD cum laude from Utrecht University

Research Interests: Decolonial methodologies, non-extractive research practices, social justice, and collective liberation. Her scholarship emphasizes relational ethics, the politics of knowledge production, and sensory emancipation.

Publication Trends: Her recent articles explore decolonial resistance through interdisciplinary lenses, including pandemic ethics, poetic storytelling, and critiques of global knowledge hierarchies. Key themes include relationality, anti-colonialism, and embodied resistance.

Scientific Contributions:

• 2024: Poetry in OneStateCollective anthology for Free Palestine
• 2023: Special issue co-edited on pandemic narratives
• 2023: Peer-reviewed articles on decolonial research ethics
• 2022: Chapter on knowledge production myths
• 2021: Decolonizing the senses in African writing
• 2020: Decolonial pedagogy in education