Ph.D. Students

Ph.D. Thesis Completed

Marina de Regt: Pioneers or Pawns. Women Health Workers and the Politics of Development in Yemen. ASSR fellowship, with Sjaak van der Geest; defended University of Amsterdam, March 2003

Nahda Shhada: The politics of family law reform and everyday life in Gaza. ISS - Nuffic fellowship, with Bas de Gaay-Fortman; defended at ISS, August 2005

Anouk de Koning: Global Dreams. Space, Class and Gender in Middle Class Cairo. ASSR fellowship; defended University of Amsterdam, September 2005

Mareike Winkelmann: From Behind the Curtain. A Study of a Girls’ Madrasa in India. ISIM fellowship, 2001-2005; defended University of Amsterdam, December 2005

Samuli Schielke: Snacks and Saints. Mawlid Festivals and the Politics of Festivity, Piety and Modernity in Contemporary Egypt. ISIM fellowship 2001-2005, defended University of Amsterdam, 29 March 2006 (cum laude)

Huong Nghiem: Privatization and Clothing Production in Vietnam. ASSR fellowship 2001-2005, with Marcel van der Linden, defended University of Amsterdam, 10 October 2006.

Miriyam Aouragh: Palestine in Cyberspace. WOTRO fellowship at ASSR, with Peter van der Veer, 2001-2006, defended University of Amsterdam, 7 April 2008.

Nadia Sonneveld: Khul` in Egypt: Legal reform, Public Debate and Everyday Life. ISIM fellowship, with Leon Buskens, 2003-2007, defended University of Amsterdam, 16 April 2009.

Current Ph.D. Thesis Supervision

Shifra Kish: Translating Deafness and/in a Bedouin Community in Israel. ASSR fellowship, with Anita Hardon, 2002-2006. 

Tanya Husain – Sheikh: Love Marriages in Pakistan: Legal Decision-Making, Public Debates, and the Family. ISIM fellowship, with Leon Buskens, 2003-2008.  

Yuniyanti Chuzaifah:Indonesian Domestic Workers in the Gulf. ISIM fellowship, 2004-2008.

Muhammed Waked: Mediating Global Development Models in Cairo, ASSR fellowship, with Mario Rutten, 2005-2009.

Loubna al-Mourabet: Muslim Student Organisations in Europe. NWO fellowship at ISIM, with Thijl Sunier, 2006-2010.

Arzu Unal: Islamic fashion and the Turkish Diaspora: transnational ties, class and generation. NWO fellowship at ISIM, 2008-2010. 

Previous and Current Post-docs

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.

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.