In-Between Spaces

Biographical notes

Christiane Timmerman (Volume editor) Johan Leman (Volume editor) Hannelore Roos (Volume editor) Barbara Segaert (Volume editor)

The Editors: Christiane Timmerman holds a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology. As head of the Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), she co-ordinates research on Ethnic Minorities and Migration at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She is also Director of Academic Affairs at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp. She is co-editor of How to Conquer the Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2005) and Faith-based Radicalism (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2007). Johan Leman holds a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology. He is Director of the Interculturalism, Migration and Minority Research Centre (IMMRC) in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is also the President of Foyer, a regional integration centre for minorities in Brussels. Hannelore Roos holds a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Policy Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. She is a junior member of the academic staff at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minority Research Centre (IMMRC) at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where she is writing a Ph.D. on the Asian Indian diaspora in Europe. Barbara Segaert holds a Master’s degree in Arab Philology and Islamic History from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a Postgraduate Diploma in the Social Sciences from the Open University in the UK. Since 2002 she has been scientific coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp where she develops academic programmes on interreligious and intercultural topics. She is co-editor of How to Conquer the Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2005) and Europe and the Historical Legacies of the Balkans (P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008).