PHD STUDENTS: PAST AND PRESENT (NEEDS UPDATE)
Ph.D. Thesis Completed
Marina de Regt: Pioneers or Pawns. Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen, defended University of Amsterdam, March 2003 (with Sjaak van der Geest)
Nahda Shhada: The politics of family law reform and everyday life in Gaza, ISS, defended August 2005 (with Bas de Gaay-Fortman)
Anouk de Koning: Global Dreams. Space, Class and Gender in Middle Class Cairo, defended University of Amsterdam, September 2005
Mareike Winkelmann: From Behind the Curtain. A Study of a Girls’ Madrasa in India, defended University of Amsterdam, December 2005
Samuli Schielke: Snacks and Saints. Mawlid Festivals and the Politics of Festivity, Piety and Modernity in Contemporary Egypt, defended University of Amsterdam, 29 March 2006 (cum laude)
Nghiem Lien Huong: Privatization and Clothing Production in Vietnam, defended University of Amsterdam, 10 October 2006 (with Marcel van der Linden).
Miriyam Aouragh: Palestine in Cyberspace, defended University of Amsterdam, 7 April 2008 (with Peter van der Veer).
Nadia Sonneveld: Khul` in Egypt: Legal reform, Public Debate and Everyday Life, defended University of Amsterdam, 16 April 2009 (with Leon Buskens).
Shifra Kisch: Translating Deafness and/in a Bedouin Community in Israel. ASSR fellowship, with Anita Hardon, 2002-2006, defended University of Amsterdam, 17 December 2012.
Arzu Unal: Wardrobes of Turkish-Dutch Women. The Multiple Meanings and Aesthetics of Muslim Dress, defended University of Amsterdam, 5 July 2013.
Vanessa Vroon-Najem: Sisters in Islam. Women's conversion and the politics of belonging: A Dutch case study, 2011-2014, defended University of Amsterdam, 9 April 2014.
Willemijn Krebbikx, Making sex, moving difference: An ethnography of sexuality and diversity in Dutch schools, defended University of Amsterdam, 26 January 2018 (with Amade M'Charek and Rachel Spronk).
Ilka-Susanna Eickhof: Pretty Interventions: Foreign Funding, Cultural Politics and Cultural Productions in Cairo in the Frame of the so-called Arab Spring, 7 June 2019 (with Ramy Ali)
Dina Zbeidy: Marriage and displacement among Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, defended University of Amsterdam, 1 May 2020 (with Julie McBrien)
Annerienke Fioole: -Publicity, discretion, and secrecy through becoming a Moroccan couple, 8 June 2021 (with Julie McBrien)
Jaafar Alloul, ‘Leaving Europe, navigating access: Status migration, travelling habitus, and racial capital in Euro-Maghrebi mobilities to the Unitedd Arab Emirates' 2 July 2021 (with Nadia Fadil and Karel Arnaut, KULeuven)
Mirjam Shatanawi, Making and unmaking Islam: legacies of colonialism in museums in the Netherlands, 13 May 2022, cum laude (with Marieke Bloembergen)
Ibtisam Sadegh: Convivencia, Crossing Borders and Boundaries'. About Muslim-Christian Couples in Ceuta, one of two Spanish exclaves in North Africa, 20 September 2023 (with Julie McBrien).
Ph.D thesis supervision (to be updated):
Yuniyanti Chuzaifah: Indonesian Domestic Workers in the Gulf
Loubna al-Mourabet: Entering into marriage, celebrating a wedding: Moroccan-Dutch couples (with Julie McBrien)-
Fouzia Outmany: Muslim activism and gender in the Netherlands after 1989 (with Martijn de Koning),
Rahma Bavelaar: Coptic-Muslim marriages in Egypt (with Julie McBrien)
Iris Kolman, Non-marriage in Tunis (with Julie McBrien)
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu Yalçın, Islam, marriage and divorce in Istanbul (with prof Nukhet Sirman)
Post-docs and affiliated researchers:
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar: Idols of the Past:The construction of World Heritage and Islamic Intolerance. ISIM fellowship, 2002-2005.
Marina de Regt: Gendered Transnationalism: Women Migrants and Domestic Labour in Yemen . WOTRO fellowship at ASSR, 2003-2006.
Dorothea Schulz: Islamic Revival, Mass-Mediated Religiosity and the Moral Negotiation of Gender Relations in Urban Mali , 2005
Nahda Shhada: Transformations in Iraqi Family Law: Public Debatesand Everyday Practices. WOTRO fellowship at ISIM, 2006.
Jeannette Jouili: The Ethics of Islamic Arts: Normativity, Creativity and 'Fun' in the Muslim Diasporas in the West, ISIM fellowship 2006-7; currently participating in Cultural Dynamics research programme.
Jessica Carlisle: After the Enactment of the 2004 Moroccan family law: Public Debates, Legal Practices and Women's Strategies, WOTRO fellowship at ISIM, April 2007- August 2008.
Martijn de Koning: Muslim activism, NWO 2013-2017
Martijn de Koning: ERC Muslim Marriages, 2014-2018
Vanessa Vroon-Najem: ERC Muslim Marriages, 2014-2017
Shifra Kisch: ERC Muslim Marriages, 2014-2017
Miriyam Aouragh, ERC Muslim Marriages
Eva F. Nisa, ERC Muslim Marrriages