Mariecke van den Berg

Mariecke van den Berg studied Theology (BA) and Gender Studies (RMA) at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). After obtaining her PhD in Public Administration at the University of Twente she has been involved in the research project “Contested Privates: the oppositional pairing of religion and homosexuality in public debates”, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and carried out at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her most recent research project has been on the representation of transgender people in the media in the Netherlands and was conducted at Atria, Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History.