Anna Aalten

Anna Aalten studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her PhD at the Rijks Universiteit Groningen. She held postions at the Rijks Universiteit Leiden and at the Vrije Universiteit and is currently working as an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.
From 2004-2008 she also holds a job as senior researcher at Codarts, the Professional University for the Performing Arts in Rotterdam, where she directs a research program on 'Excellence and well being in the performing arts', which is financed by the Stichting Kennisontwikkeling (SKO). She is a staff member of the ASSR.
Her research is in the field of the sociology and anthropology of the body.
She works in Europe. Her main interest are body theory, health, gender and the life history approach. She is a board member of the Vereniging voor Dansonderzoek (VDO) and of the Stichting Dansers Gezondheidszorg (SGD). She has published two books (Zakenvrouwen. Over de grenzen van vrouwelijkheid in Nederland sinds 1945 (1991) and De bovenbenen van Olga de Haas. Achter de schermen van de Nederlandse balletwereld (2002)) and co-edited several special issues of journals. Her articles on gender, dance, the body and methodology appeared in the Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift, Medische Antropologie, the European Journal for Women's Studies, Discourses in Dance and in The Sociological Review.