Meet our staff
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Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou
Full Professor | Key Themes: infrastructures (incl. labour), sustainability, democracy, anthropology of crisis and commons | Region: Greece
dr. Ellen Bal
Associate Professor | Key themes: Identity, ethnicity, indigenous peoples, migration, transnationalism, gender and sexuality | Region: Bangladesh and India
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
Prof. dr. Freek Colombijn
Full Professor and Co Research Coordinator | Key Themes: urban anthropology, environmental sustainability, violence, decolonization, social inequality, environmental history | Region: Indonesia
dr. Flávio Eiró de Oliveira
Assistant Professor | Key Themes: public administration, state-building, frontline workers, and anthropology in politics | Region: Brazil
dr. Giulia Sinatti
Assistant Professor | Key Themes: anthropology of migration governance and the anthropology of healthcare and biotechnology | Region: Africa and Europe
dr. Luisa Schneider
Assistant Professor | Key Themes: anthropology of intimacy, violence and law | Region: Sierra Leone and Germany
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. 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
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
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. 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. P.G.A. Versteeg
Assistant Professor | Key Themes: Religion, care, sustainability, ecology, ritual practices, film | Region: The Netherlands
dr. Wiebe Ruijtenberg
Assistant Professor | Key Themes: sustainability and ecology | Region: Egypt, the Netherlands
Anastasiia Omelianiiuk
Post Doctoral Candidate
André Bakker
PhD Candidate
Carole Rabemanantsoa
PhD Candidate
Daisy I. Yasmine
PhD Candidate
Georgios S. Serntedakis
PhD Candidate
Linxi Zhang
PhD Candidate
Linggar R. Putra
PhD Candidate
Nancy Jouwe
PhD Candidate
Nancy Hakizimana
PhD Candidate
Rachma Lutfiny Putri
PhD Candidate
Sakina Loukili
PhD Candidate
Thalia Lola Surányi Correll
PhD Candidate
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