I teach and write about how people study the world to change it.

I collaborate with many people to learn about world politics. I’m particularly interested in the ways people struggle against oppression across borders.

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.

Photo of Jonneke Koomen and Yasmine Genena sitting around a messy table by Frank Miller

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

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 2022
International relations as if people matter in Journal of Narrative Politics 2021

(Most publications available at willamette.academia.edu/JonnekeKoomen or send me an email)

Email: jkoomen @ willamette.edu