My latest book was published by Lannoo and titled 'Een zachte anarchist', a political biography of my own father, Jan Peumans.

My previous book, 'Queer Muslims in Europe: Sexuality, Religion and Migration in Belgium' was published by IB Tauris (London/New York), a leading publisher in Islam and Middle-Eastern studies, in a new series on 'Gender & Islam'. The paperback will be released in november 2019 by Bloomsbury.

I am a research associate at the African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In 2016 I was a post-doctoral research fellow at the same centre, as a member of the Andrew Mellon funded project ‘Governing Morality: Sexuality, Gender and Asylum in South Africa’.

As a fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO - Vlaanderen), I obtained my PhD in social and cultural anthropology at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (KULeuven, 2015). My dissertation was titled ‘Unlocking the Closet – Same-sex Desire among Muslim Men and Women in Belgium’. I was a visiting trainee fellow at the School of Anthropology and Conservation (University of Kent – Canterbury) in 2014 – 2015. My master’s thesis on sexual migration to Belgium won the Marguerite Lefèvre Award for Genderstudies (Academische Stichting Leuven, 2010) and was published as a book (Acco Leuven, 2011, ‘Seks en Stigma over Grenzen heen’).

Wim is available for consultancy, lectures and seminars. Contact details via his personal website.