Social and Cultural Anthropology

dr. Pablo Ampuero Ruiz, MA
- p.i.ampueroruizvunl
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Social and Cultural Anthropology - Assistant Professor
- Mobilities, Beliefs and Belonging: Confronting Global Inequalities and Insecurities (MOBB) - Assistant Professor
Person: Academic
Lisa Ausic
- l.ausic2vunl
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Social and Cultural Anthropology - External PhD Candidate
Person: Academic
dr. Ellen Bal
- ellen.balvunl
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Social and Cultural Anthropology - Associate Professor
- Amsterdam Sustainability Institute - Associate Professor
- Mobilities, Beliefs and Belonging: Confronting Global Inequalities and Insecurities (MOBB) - Associate Professor
Person: Academic
dr. Edien Bartels
- e.a.c.bartelsvunl
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Social and Cultural Anthropology - Visiting Fellow
Person: Academic
drs. Alexander Chaplin
- a.i.chaplinvunl
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Social and Cultural Anthropology - External PhD Candidate
Person: Academic

9 Active
28 Finished

Bureaucratic Debris: Governance After Policy Termination in São Paulo
Eiró de Oliveira, F. (Principal Investigator)
1/09/26 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
NIU: New Imperial Utopias: State-Building, Intervention, and the Politics of Governance in Crisis
Eiró de Oliveira, F. (Principal Investigator), van Roekel, E. (Project Researcher) & Ruijtenberg, W. (Project Researcher)
1/01/26 → 31/12/30
Project: Research
Life Long Learning Climate in Healthcare
Sinatti, G. (Project Researcher)
1/01/25 → 31/12/28
Project: Research
ERC Advanced Grant for "Unpacking confined lives: Generating a global research agenda on the intersection of urban marginality, displacement, and incarceration" (PI Steffen Jensen, Aalborg University),
Schneider, L. T. (Project Researcher)
2/09/24 → 31/08/29
Project: Research
Re-Relating: : Dutch Ministry of Education Research Funding for: "Rethinking the Conceptual Divide Between Intimate Lives and Legal Systems for Sociolegal Justice. (PI Dr. Luisa T. Schneider)
Schneider, L. T. (Project Researcher)
1/07/24 → 31/08/28
Project: Research

ECO-ISLAM: Environmental crisis, Islamic reasoning, and alternative Islamic authorities
Sunier, T., 2027, Anything but Orthodox: Anthropological Observations of Islam in the 21st Century. Routledge, p. 268-286 19 p. (Anthropology of Now).
Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
Koerdische diaspora: één lichaam, twee hoofden: Een etnografische studie naar de dagelijkse praktijk van Koerdische activisten in Nederland
Translated title of the contribution: Kurdish diaspora: one body, two heads: An ethnographic study of the everyday practices of Kurdish activists in the NetherlandsIgdi, E., 11 Nov 2026, 178 p.
Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal

Open Access
File
"Yemen is not safe": Yemeni asylum seekers worried about the future (blog)
Hall, B. & de Regt, M., 19 Sept 2026
Research output: Web publication or Non-textual form › Web publication or Website › Professional

Open Access
Maternal care burdens: An ethnography of Socio-Cultural Factors to Child Malnutrition and Mortality in Eastern Ethiopia
Begna, K., 7 Sept 2026, 149 p.
Research output: PhD Thesis › PhD-Thesis - Research and graduation internal

Open Access
File
48 Downloads (Pure)
The past of our future: How a Southern attitude can help Dutch academia
de Regt, M., 1 Sept 2026, Southern Attitudes in the Social Sciences: Pathways toward a Renewed Professional Ethos. Pinheiro, C. & Levitt, P. (eds.). Sage, p. 113-127 24 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Academic Skills Lab
Koemar, E.
1/09/26 → 31/08/27
Course
ADVANCED METHODS I
Vrabiescu, I. & Andrikopoulos, A.
8/01/24 → 2/02/24
Course
Anthropology for Society
de Jong, W.
1/09/26 → 31/08/27
Course
Anthropology of Development: Decolonial Perspectives
Eiró de Oliveira, F.
1/09/26 → 31/08/27
Course
AudioVisual Anthropology
van Roekel, E.
1/09/26 → 31/08/27
Course

Lezing troost geven en ontvangen
de Jong, W. (Speaker)
9 Apr 2026
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Unbearable Lightness of Agency: Eritrean Unaccompanied Refugee Minors from Flight to Arrival in the Netherlands
de Regt, M. (Examiner)
2 Jun 2026
Activity: PhD thesis Examination › PhD thesis examination
International Summer School “Documentary and Multimodal Ethnographic Approaches
Dalakoglou, D. (Organiser)
1 Jul 2026 → 14 Jul 2026
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Other event › Academic
Screening of 'Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar'
Matelski, M. (Organiser)
6 Feb 2026
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Other event › Academic
Why the world needs anthropologists
Matelski, M. (Organiser)
2 Jun 2026
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar › Academic

Active8-planet: People-centred development approaches in practical and learning environments
Sinatti, G. (Recipient), 1 Jan 2021
Prize / Grant: Grant › Academic
AIGHD fellowship
Sinatti, G. (Recipient), 1 May 2024
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
Ambassador for Childhood of the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI, http://www.acei.org/ )
Evers, S. J. T. M. (Recipient), 15 Jun 2014
Prize / Grant: Prize › Societal
Amsterdam Open Science Community Award
Schneider, L. (Recipient), 2023
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic
Amsterdam Sustainability Institute Seed Money: Visions of VU's Green Campus
Schut, T. (Recipient), 2022
Prize / Grant: Prize › Academic

Interactive Map of racist attacks in Greece
Dalakoglou, D. (Creator), Brekke, K. J. (Creator) & Filippidis, C. (Creator), crisis-scapes , 2012
http://map.crisis-scape.net
Dataset / Software: Dataset
Indonesian Migrant Communities in Malaysia
Dewanto, P. A. (Creator), VU, 2024
DOI: 10.48338/vu01-nqfr3e, https://publication.yoda.vu.nl/full/VU01/NQFR3E.html
Dataset / Software: Dataset
Interviews with key stakeholders in Bolivia on plurinational state-building (2013-2023)
Barie, C. G. (Creator), Faculty Social Sciences, VU Univeristy, 1 Nov 2023
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10179103, https://portal.yoda.vu.nl/research/browse?dir=%2Fresearch-fsw-sca-plurinationality-rights-nature-bolivia%2FData_Base_Audio_Records
Dataset / Software: Dataset
Women, diaspora and peacebuilding in Yemen
Strzelecka, E. K. (Creator), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2024
DOI: 10.48338/vu01-l03qj5, https://publication.yoda.vu.nl/full/VU01/L03QJ5.html
Dataset / Software: Dataset
Dataset on infrastructural contestation in Greece (2008-2017)
Giovanopoulos, C. (Creator), Kallianos, Y. (Creator), Athanasiadis, I. (Creator) & Dalakoglou, D. (Creator), Zenodo, 1 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3567750, https://zenodo.org/record/3567750#.XfubDa2B1E4
Dataset / Software: Dataset

De oplaaiende oorlog in Jemen
de Regt, M.
22/09/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Hoe sterk zijn de Houthis?
de Regt, M.
22/09/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Hoe de Houthi's profiteren van het machtsvacuum in Jemen
de Regt, M.
22/09/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
De inname van Bab Al-Mandeb door de Houthis
de Regt, M.
14/09/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
De inname van Bab Al-Mandeb door de Houthis
de Regt, M.
11/09/26
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment

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