Experts
Meet the experts

Marja Spierenburg
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Anthropology, Energy and Water Systems, Environment, Ethnography, Sustainability
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Sub-Sahara Africa
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Jacques van der Vliet
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Coptic, Early Christianity, Egyptology
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Egypt, Nubia
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
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Human Evolution, Hunter-Gatherers Neolithisation, Later Stone Age, Middle Stone Age, Palaeolithic, Protection of Archaeological Heritage
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Northwest Europe, South Africa
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Abdourahmane Idrissa
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States and institutions, political Islam and political secularism, modern and premodern history
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Niger, Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Nigeria
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Loes Oudenhuijsen
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sexuality, gender norms, agenxy, political economy, Islam, secularity
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Senegal
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Tycho van der Hoog
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African history, Korean history, African-Korean relations, liberation wars, international relations
Region
Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe
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Lidewyde Berckmoes
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Conflict, children and youth, intergenerational transmission, resilience, violence
Region
Rwanda, Burundi
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Harry Wels
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Nature conservation, human-animal studies
Region
South Africa, Southern Africa
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Annachiara Raia
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African languages literatures, Islamic poetry in Africa, orality and literacy, Swahili literature and practices
Region
Eastern Africa, Kenya
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Carolien Jacobs
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Legal anthropology, law, governance, international development, conflict
Region
Congo, Mozambique
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Janine Ubink
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African law and governance, customary law, land law and policy, gender, transitional justice, legal empowerment
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Ghana, Namibia, Malawi, Somalia, South Africa
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Nadia Sonneveld
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Family law, Legal rights, Migration
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Morocco, North Africa
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Klaas van Walraven
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French Africa; French empire, decolonization, biography
Region
Niger, West Africa, Central African Republic
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Chibuike Uche
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Political economy, Business and financial history, Financial institutions regulation and regional integration
Region
Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone
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Rijk van Dijk
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Pentecostalism, globalization and transnationalism, migration, youth and healing
Region
Botswana, Ghana, Malawi
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Wouter van Beek
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Kapsiki-Higi people, Dogon, Folk tales, Oral history, Religion, Anthropology of religion, Tourism, Cultural ecology, Witchcraft, Holy places
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Cameroon, Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Azeb Amha
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Descriptive and documentary linguistics, Anthropological linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Omotic languages
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Ethiopia
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André Leliveld
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Frugal innovation, economy, informal insurance and social-support systems, labour protection
Region
East Africa
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Mayke Kaag
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Social anthropology, Islam, African transnational relations
Region
Senegal, Chad, Cameroon
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Maarten Kossmann
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Berber linguistics, Contact linguistics, Oral narratives, Language contact between Berber languages and Arabic dialects
Region
North Africa, Sahara, Sahel zone
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Felix Ameka
Expertise
African linguistics, anthropological linguistics, West African languages
Region
West Africa
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Annette Schmidt
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History, archeology, material culture, architecture, tourism
Region
West Africa
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Robert Ross
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Colonial South Africa, slavery, black consumption patterns, global homogenisation of world material culture
Region
South Africa
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Maarten Mous
Expertise
African linguistics
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Tanzania, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Senegal
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Marleen Dekker
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Development economy, human geography, land reform, social networks
Region
Zimbabwe, Togo, Ethiopia
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Mirjam de Bruijn
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT's), nomadism, youth and children, social (in)security, poverty, marginality/social and economic exclusion, violence, slavery, and human rights.
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Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Central African Republic, Sahel
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Akinyinka Akinyoade
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Demography, sociology, fertility dynamics and family planning, human trafficking and forced labor
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West Africa, Nigeria, Ghana
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Ton Dietz
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Economic geography, political ecology, agricultural dynamics
Region
Kenya, Ghana
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Jan Abbink
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Anthropology, political change and ethnicity, violence and culture, ethnic groups
Region
Northeast Africa, Ethiopia, Somalia
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Peter Pels
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Global Africa, Global Politics, Consumption, Diversity, Ethics, Heritage, Religion and Magic, Colonial History, Anthropology
Region
Tanzania, Africa
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Sabine Luning
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Goldmining, Economy, Religion and Religious Ideas, Corporate Social Responsibility, Resource Politics, Migration
Region
Burkina Faso, West Africa
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Erik Bähre
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Economic anthropology, conflict, emotions, methodology, emerging markets, Netherlands, South Africa
Region
South Africa
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Jan-Bart Gewald
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African history, technology and society, history of anthropology
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Ghana, Southern Africa
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