How do people study the world to change it?
And how do people struggle against oppression across borders?
I collaborate with many people to learn about international solidarity, transnational social movements, and liberation struggles.
I teach courses on sociology, politics, human rights, transnational feminism, Black internationalism, the politics of Africa, education, social research, and transformative justice (in collaboration with incarcerated people at a maximum security prison).
My goal is to support working-class, incarcerated, and other underrepresented students as they share their knowledge and visions for a better world.
Jonneke Koomen
photo: Yasmine Genena and Jonneke Koomen by Frank Miller
Current research & teaching projects
Angela Davis
image credit: Shephard Fairey's Angela Davis (Boston, MA) by takomabibelot
Love/Study/Struggle
Thomas Sankara
recent writing
Black Internationalism: Relentless Struggle, Deep Study, and Critique with Salome Ayuak. In: The Palgrave Handbook of the Pedagogy International Relations Theory (2025) Lespiki mi: Respect for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people in Suriname with Carla Bakboord. In: Suriname: Land of Diversity, edited by Jack Menke (2024)Land of the freed people in Africa is a Country 2022International relations as if people matter in Journal of Narrative Politics 2021(Most publications available at willamette.academia.edu/JonnekeKoomen or send me an email)
