PhD projects Social and Cultural Anthropology

Current PhD projects Social and Cultural Anthropology

• M.P. Adinolfi Msc; Exhibiting the other, exhibiting the self: Afro-Brazilian objects, memorials, temples and the politics of cultural heritage in Brazil.
• D. Alinejad Msc; Diaspora identities and the Internet: How Iranian Migrant Communities are Imagined Online and Offline.
• Drs. A. Bakker; Streaming Meditations. Traditional Cosmology, Pentecostal Christanity and Modern Mass Media in an Indigenous Community in Brazil. 
• Drs. M. Balkenhol; Memory work. Trauma, Truth and Slavery in the Netherlands.
• Drs. D. Beekers; Dutch Christians and Muslims: a comparative study of religious youth in a liberal consumer society.
• Drs. L. Berckmoes; Burundian Youth’s Social Navigation in Fragile Contexts.
• Drs. M. van der Brug; Losing parents to AIDS: grief, bereavement and well-being among orphans in Namibia.
• S. Dalby Msc; Cosmopolitanising and Politicising Falun Gong Membership and Practices: Processes of incorporation/Universalizing and Authenticating Falun Gong Cultivation: The Incorporation of Overseas Chinese and non-Chinese in Falun Gong Cultivation and Contestation. 
• Caroline Grillot; When Vietnamese women encounter Chinese men at the border. Alliances as a tactic in the context of social liminality.
• Johanes Herlijanto; The Imagination of China in and for Indonesia.
• Drs. A. Jansen; tba
• D. Jethro Msc; Between a Hill and a Horn: The Politics and Poetics of Post-Apartheid Heritage Formation.
• Drs. L.J. van de Kamp; Brazilian Pentecostalism in Mozambique: exploring the transnational dimensions of Pentecostal conversion in Maputo. 
• Drs. M. Klaver; Conversion and commitment in two new evangelical churches in the Netherlands. 
• P. Koh Msc; Vietnam’s Familiair Strangers – Narratives of returning Overseas Vietnamese and the synmbolic construction of homeland and nation.
• Drs. P. Lapanun; Transnational Marriage: Negotiation of Local Women and Men in the Rural Northeaster Thai Village.
• Drs. M.E. Leegwater; Ethnic antagonism and land competition. A comparative study of Burundian and Rwandan national land policies and local practices.
• M. Matelski Msc; The conceptualisation of human rights and democracy by Burmese activists in Thailand in interaction with local and international actors.
• Drs. I. Melchior; Europe’s contested pasts: remembering Nazism and Communism within Estonian families. 
• Drs. J.C. Minkjan; Neo-paganism in the Netherlands.
• *Ngo, T.Drs. T.T.T. Ngo; Transnational Religios Networks and Protestand Conversion among the Hmong in Northern Vietnam.
• Drs. E. van Ommering; The dual nature of education in contexts of violent conflict: a classroom-based analysis of the violence inducing and -averting capacities of primary schools in Lebanon.
• Daiva Repečkaitė; 'Russian', therefore 'Western': the acquisition and maintenance of 'ex Soviet' identity among FSU immigrants in Israel.    
• Drs. M. de Waardt; Identity construction of organizations of victims of political violence in Peru.
• Drs. J.M.M.L. van Wijk; Domestic Violence in a Mexican Tourist Area: a Study of Masculinities, Violence and Substance Abuse in an Era of Social Transformations.   
• Drs. R. Woets; Palette of Power Relations and the Boundaries of Globalization: Contemporary Visual Artists from Ghana. 

Completed PhD projects Social and Cultural Anthropology

2011

• Dr. I.M. Ruigrok; Negotiating Governance: Politics, Culture and the State in Post-war Angola; 27 January 2011.
• Dr. K. van der Velde; Flirten met God. Religiositeit zonder geloof; 10 May 2011.

2010

• Dr. W. Reedijk; Roots and Routes: Identity Construction and the Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue; 9 February 2010.
• Dr. T. Salverda; Sugar, Sea and Power, How Franco-Mauritians Balance Continuity and Creeping Decline of their Elite Position; 5 March 2010.
• Dr. Nguyen Tuan Anh; Kinship as Social Capital: Economic, Social and Cultural Dimensions of Changing Kinship Relations in a Northern Vietnamese Village; 22 April 2010.
• Dr. J. Rickli; Negotiating Otherness in the Dutch Protestant World: Missionary and Diaconal Encounters between the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and Brazilian Organisations; 11 October 2010.

2009

• Dr. B.E Büscher; The politics and governance of linking conservation and development in Southern Africa; 14 January 2009, Cum Laude.
• Dr. E. Grassiani; Reasoning on Moral Issues on Non-Conventional Conflict: Israeli Soldiers’ Views on Moral Dilemma’s; 10 June 2009.
• Dr. J.H. Roeland; Selfation. Nederlandse evangelicale jongeren tussen subjectivering en onderschikking; 10 September 2009.
• Dr. B. Tasew; Metaphors of Peace and Violence in the Folklore Discourses of South-Western Ethiopia: A comparative study; 14 December 2009.

2008

• Dr. M.J.M. de Koning; Zoeken naar een ‘zuivere’ islam. Geloofsbeleving en identiteitsvorming van jonge Marokkaanse moslims; 17 April 2008.
• Dr. A. Berhe; A political history of the Tigray people’s liberation front (1975-1991): Revolt, ideology and mobilisation in Ethiopia; 2 September 2008.

2007

• Dr. K.E. Knibbe ; Faith in the Familiar: Continuity and Change in Religious Practices and Moral Orientations in the South of Limburg, The Netherlands ; 22 March 2007; Cum Laude.
• Dr. L.R. Matias Cruz; Repressions and rebellions in Southern Mexico: The search for a political economy of dignity ;11 September 2007.
• Dr. F. Krijtenburg; Cultural ideologies of peace and conflict: a socio-cognitive analysis of Giryama discourse (Kenya); 13 December 2007.

2006

• Dr. A. Claver; Commerce and capital in colonial Java – Trade fiancé and commercial relations between Europeans and Chinese, 1820s-1942; 1 December 2006.

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology