Potential PhD Superviors Social and Cultural Anthropology

dr. Pablo Ampuero Ruiz

Assistant Professor and Co Research Coordinator | Key themes: sustainable transitions, migrant labour, economic anthropology and global history | Region: China and Chile 

dr. Ellen Bal

Associate Professor | Key themes: Identity, ethnicity, indigenous peoples, migration, transnationalism, gender and sexuality | Region: Bangladesh and India 

Prof. dr. Freek Colombijn

Full Professor and Co Research Coordinator | Key Themes: urban anthropology, environmental sustainability, violence,  decolonization, social inequality, environmental history | Region: Indonesia 

Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou

Full Professor | Key Themes: infrastructures (incl. labour), sustainability, democracy, anthropology of crisis and commons | Region: Greece 

dr. Flávio Eiró de Oliveira

Assistant Professor | Key Themes: public administration, state-building, frontline workers, and anthropology in politics | Region: Brazil 

dr. Maaike Matelski

Assistant Professor | Key Themes: human rights, civil society, social justice, peace & conflict,  development. Research interest in issues of voice, representation and legitimacy within rights-based advocacy | Region: Myanmar and broader Southeast Asia; Kenya 

prof. dr. Pál D. Nyiri

Full Professor | Key Themes: International mobility of contemporary Chinese elites; Chinese nationalism; The politics of immigration in Eastern Europe; and Comparative approaches to Eastern Europe and China | Region: China and Eastern Europe 

dr. Marina de Regt

Associate Professor and MA Programme Director | Key Themes: gender, (forced) migration, displacement, social inequality, labour, development, life histories | Region: the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, in particular Yemen and Ethiopia 

dr. Eva van Roekel

Associate Professor and Bachelor's Programme Director | Key Themes: Violence, emotion, crisis, morality and ethics, human rights, visual anthropology, creative writing, and phenomenology | Region: Venezuela and Argentina 

dr. Wiebe Ruijtenberg

Assistant Professor | Key Themes: sustainability and ecology | Region: Egypt, the Netherlands 

dr. Luisa Schneider

Assistant Professor | Key Themes: anthropology of intimacy, violence and law | Region: Sierra Leone and Germany 

dr. Giulia Sinatti

Assistant Professor | Key Themes: anthropology of migration governance and the anthropology of healthcare and biotechnology | Region: Africa and Europe 

prof. dr. Marjo de Theije

Professor and Head of Department | Key Themes: anthropology of resources, gold mining, cultural and social dimensions of resource extraction, sustainability of resource extraction, related infrastructures and policies | Region: Amazon, in Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, Colombia, Bolivia and Peru 

dr. P.G.A. Versteeg

Assistant Professor | Key Themes: Religion, care, sustainability, ecology, ritual practices, film | Region: The Netherlands