Our People
Executive Committee
For many years Sephis’ coordination has been shared between scholars based in the North and in the South, fostering equal gender and racial representation. Our present team has scholars based in South America, Europe and the Middle East, allowing us to foster global initiatives without overlooking the complexity of regional experiences.
Cláudio Pinheiro
Chair
Marina De Regt
Co-Chair
Alain Kaly
Co-Chair
Eloísa Martín
Co-Chair
Vinicius Kauê Ferreira
Coordinator
Jacqueline Rutte
Treasurer
Former Board Members
Mamadou Diouf
Columbia University, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, USA
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Universidad de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia
Jan Breman
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School for Social Sciences, Centre for Asian Studies, The Netherlands
Lilia Schwarcz
Universidade de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Verene Shepherd
University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Peter Geschiere
Leiden University, Institute of Cultrual and Social Studies, The Netherlands
Gyanendra Pandey
University of Delhi, India and Johns Hopkins University, USA
Willem van Schendel
University of Amsterdam, Department of Modern Asian History, The Netherlands
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
University of Malaysia, Faculty of Economics and Administration, Malaysia
Heather Sutherland
Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Maria Serena I. Diokno
University of the Philippines, Quezon City, The Philippines
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Shamil Jeppie
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Hanan Sabea
The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Erwiza Erman
Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia
Asef Bayat
Leiden University , International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), The Netherlands
Michiel Baud
University of Amsterdam, Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), The Netherlands
Takyiwaa Manuh
University of Ghana, Ghana
Carlos Degregori
Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, Peru
Matthias Pandian
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India
Abdul Sheriff
University of Dar Es Salaam, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Hilary McD. Beckles
University of the West Indies, Department of History, Barbados
Dora Schwarzstein
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina