Michiel Baas

Imagined Mobility. Migration and Transnationalism among Indian Students in Australia.

Date of Ceremony: 13 October 2009

Advisor: Prof. dr. M.A.F. Rutten & Prof. dr. H.W. van Schendel

Christine Dedding

Delen in Macht en Onmacht. Kindparticipatie in de (alledaagse) diabeteszorg

Date of Ceremony: 30 September 2009

Advisor: Prof. dr. A.P. Hardon & dr. R. Reis

Inês Trigo de Sousa

Regional Integration and Differentiation in a Globalizing China. The Blending of Government and Business in Post-Colonial Macau

Date of Ceremony: 11 September 2009

Advisor: Prof. dr. M.A.F. Rutten

Diana van Bergen

Suicidal Behavior of Young Migrant Women in The Netherlands.

Date of Ceremony: 25 June 2009 (Free University, Amsterdam)

Advisor: Prof. dr. S. Saharso

Thu Anh Nguyen

Access to Comprehensive Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission Program: Obstacles and Implications.

Date of Ceremony: 23 June 2009

Advisor: Prof. dr. A.P. Hardon

Miranda van Reeuwijk

Because of Temptations - Children, Sex and HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.

Date of Ceremony: 22 June 2009

Advisor: Prof. dr. J.D.M. van der Geest

Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard

Coconuts, Gangsters and Rainbow Fighters. How male youngsters navigate situations of violence in Cape Town, South Africa.

Date of Ceremony: 12 June 2009

Advisor: Prof. dr. J.M. Richters.

Imrat Verhoeven

Burgers Tegen Beleid. Een analyse van dynamiek in politieke betrokkenheid.

Date of Ceremony: 11 June 2009

Advisors: Prof. dr. mr. C.J.M. Schuyt & Prof. dr. M.A. Hajer.

Eveline Buchheim

Passie en Missie. Huwelijken van Europeanen in Nederlands-Indië en Indonesië 1920-1958.

Date of Ceremony: 2 June 2009

Advisors: Prof. dr. F. Gouda, Prof. dr. H.G.C. Schulte Nordholt, Dr. E.B. Locher-Scholten.

Grace Akello

Wartime Children's Suffering and Quests for Therapy in Northern Uganda

Date of Ceremony: 20 May 2009 (University of Leiden)

Advisors: Prof. dr. J.M. Richters, Dr. R. Reis, Dr. C.B. Rwabukwali

Rosa Lehman

Struggling for Peace. Understanding Polish-Ukrainian Coexistence in Southeast Poland 1943-2007

Date of Ceremony: 14 May 2009

Advisor: Prof.dr. O.D. van den Muijzenberg

Eleftheria Vasileiadou

Working apart together : using ICTs in research collaboration

Date of Ceremony: 24 April 2009

Advisor: Prof.dr. S. S. Blume

Rüya Gökhan Koçer

Three Views of a Secret Containment of Industrial Conflict in Neo-Liberal Environments

Date of Ceremony: 31 March 2009

Advisor: Prof.dr. B. Kittel & Prof.dr. J. Visser

Katharina Paul

Safety: A Matter of Taste? Food Safety Policy in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and at the Level of the European Union

Date of Ceremony: 13 March 2009

Advisor: Prof.dr. M.A. Hajer & Dr. A. Freyberg-Inan

Maria José Alves de Abreu

In Midair: Breath, Media, Body, Space; a study of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement in Brazil

Date of Ceremony: 19 February 2009

Advisors: Prof.dr. B. Meyer & Prof.dr. P.T. van der Veer

Marcel Maussen

Constructing mosques. The governance of Islam in France and the Netherlands (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 12 February 2009

Advisors: Prof.dr. M.A. Hajer & Prof.dr. M. Fennema

Ward Berenschot

Riot Politics: Communal Violence and State-Society Mediation in Gujarat, India (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 30 January 2009

Advisors: Prof.dr. M.A.F. Rutten, Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Prof.dr. G. Shah

Peter van der Graaf

Emotional Ties to the Neighbourhood in Urban Renewal in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Date of Ceremony: 29 January 2009

Advisor: Prof.dr. W.G.J. Duyvendak

Trudie Gerrits

Clinical Encounters. Dynamics of patient-centred practices in a Dutch fertility clinic (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 10 December 2008

Advisors: Prof.dr. A.P. Hardon & Prof.dr. D.D.M. Braat (RUN)

Pauline Oosterhoff

Pressure to Bear Gender, Fertility and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in Vietnam

Date of Ceremony: 13 November 2008

Advisors: Prof.dr. A.P. Hardon & Prof.dr. F. Gouda

Hilje van der Horst

Materiality of Belonging: the Domestic Interiors of Turkish Migrants and their Descendants in The Netherlands

Date of Ceremony: 10 October 2008

Advisors: Prof.dr. G.W.J. Rooijakkers, Dr. H.C. Dibbits & Dr. J.T. Sunier

Daniel Mügge

Widen the Market, Narrow the Compitition: The Emergence of Supranational Governance in EU Capital Markets (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 23 September 2008

Advisor: Prof.dr. G.R.D. Underhill

John Kinsman

Pragmatic choices: Research, politics and AIDS control in Uganda

Date of Ceremony: 4 September 2008
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.D.M. van der Geest & Prof.dr. A.P. Hardon

Mangalika de Silva

Minor Tangles: The Prison House of Democracy in Southern Sri Lanka

Date of Ceremony: 2 July 2008
Advisor: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Lotte Hoek

Cut-Pieces: Obscenity and the Cinema in Bangladesh (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 18 June 2008
Advisors: Prof.dr. B. Meyer & Prof.dr. H.W. van Schendel

Marleen de Witte

Spirit Media: charismatics, traditionalists, and mediation practices in Ghana (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 21 May 2008
Advisors: Prof.dr. B. Meyer & Prof.dr. P. Geschiere

Miriyam Aouragh

Palestine Online. Cyber Intifada and the Construction of a Virtual Community 2001-2005

Date of Ceremony: 7 April 2008
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. Moors & Prof.dr. P. van der Veer (University College Utrecht)

Milena Veenis

Dromen van Dingen. Oost-Duitse fantasieën over de westerse consumptiemaatschappij (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 21 Februari 2008
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Verrips & Prof.dr. Thoden van Velzen

Floris Noordhoff

Persistent Poverty in The Netherlands

Date of Ceremony: 8 Februari 2008
Advisors: Prof. dr. G.B.M. Engbersen (EUR) & Prof. dr. T.V. Blokland-Potters (TU Delft)

Arjan Leerkes

Illegaal verblijf en veiligheid in Nederland

Date of Ceremony: 18 December 2007
Advisor: Prof. dr. G.B.M. Engbersen (EUR)

Marta Kahancová

Making the Most of Diversity.Social Interaction and Variation in Employment Practices in a Multinational Company

Dat of Ceremony: 16 October 2007
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Visser, Prof. B. Kittel (Universität Oldenburg) & Dr. M. van der Meer

Papreen Nahar

Childless in Bangladesh; Suffering and Resilience Among Rural and Urban Women

Date of Ceremony: 3 October 2007
Advisors: Prof. Dr. J.M. Richters, Prof. Dr. S. van der Geest & Dr. W. Koster

Sonja van Wichelen

Embodied Contestations; Muslim Politics and Democratization in Indonesia through the Prism of Gender

Date of Ceremony: 18 September 2007
Advisors: Prof. dr. F. Gouda, Prof. dr. P. Pattynama & Dr. Dubravka Zarkov

Graeme Reid

How to be a 'real' gay. Emerging gay spaces in small-town South Africa (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 22 June 2007
Advisors: Prof.dr. P.L. Geschiere, Prof.dr. C.A. Hamilton (WISER) & Dr. G. Hekma

Sarah DeMul

Yesterday does not go by. The Return to the Colonial Past in Women's Travel Writing and the Contingencies of Dutch and British Cultures of Remembrance

Date of Ceremony: 22 June 2007

Advisors: Prof. dr. P. Pattynama & Prof. dr. F. Gouda.

Marie-Louise Janssen

Reizende Sekswerkers; Latijns-Amerikaanse vrouwen in de Europese prostitutie

Date of Ceremony: 30 mei 2007
Advisors: Prof. dr. S. Leydesdorff & Dr. A.J.J. Aalten

Eelke Heemskerk

Decline of the Corporate Community. Network dynamics of the Dutch business elite 1976-2001

Date of Ceremony: 25 January 2007
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Visser & Prof.dr. M. Fennema

Ramón Spaaij

Understanding Football Hooliganism. A Comparison of Six Western European Football Clubs

Date of Ceremony: 16 January 2007
Advisors: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt & Dr. R. Stokvis

Christian Bröer

Beleid vormt Overlast. Hoe beleidsdiscoursen de beleving van geluid bepalen

Date of Ceremony: 19 December 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. M.A. Hajer & Prof.dr. P.J. Stallen (RUL)

Eric Schubert Ansah

Close Encounters between Afica and Asia. Ghana's Look East Policy and the Making of Malaysia's Overseas Investors

Date of Ceremony: 7 December 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. M.A.F. Rutten & Prof.dr. G.C.A. Junne

Damian Räss

Hidden Political Economy of Globalization: The Transformation of Industrial Relations in Germany and Brazil

Date of Ceremony: 5 December 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Visser, Dr. B. Burgoon & Prof.dr. G.C.A. Junne

Katja Rušinovic

Dynamic Entrepreneurship. First and second-generation immigrant entrepreneurs in Dutch cities

Date of Ceremony: 1 December 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. G. Engbersen (EUR), Prof.dr. R. Kloosterman (UvA) & Dr. Peter Achterberg (EUR)

Alexandra Schüssler

Wahnsinn auf Papier und Leinwand. Sublimation und Exploitation im Haus der Künstler in Gugging

Date of Ceremony: 10 November 2006
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Verrips

Kateryna Pishchikova

Lost in Translation. USAID assistance to democracy building in post-communist Ukraine

Date of Ceremony: 7 November 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. M. Hajer & Dr. A. Freyberg-Inan

Margreet van Till

Batavia bij nacht. Bloei en ondergang van het Indonesisch roverswezen in Batavia en de Ommelanden, 1869-1942

Date of Ceremony: 2 November 2006

Advisors: Prof. dr. H.W. van Schendel & Prof. dr. H.G.C. Schulte Nordholt

Peter Achterberg

Considering Cultural Conflict. Class politics and Cultural Politics in Western Societies

Date of Ceremony): 20 October 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. G. Engbersen (EUR) & Dr. D. Houtman (EUR)

Nghiem Lien Huong

Work Culture, Gender and Class in Vietnam: Ethnographies of three garment workshops in Hanoi

Date of Cermony: 10 October 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. M. van der Linden, Prof.dr. A. Moors & Dr. J. Kleinen

Mara Yerkes

What Women Want: Individual Preferences, Heterogeneous Patterns? Women's labour market participation patterns in comparative welfare state perspective

Date of Ceremony: 6 October 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. F. Leijnse & Prof.dr. J. Visser

Basile Ndjio

Feymania: new wealth, magic money and power in contemporary Cameroon (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 8 June 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. P.L. Geschiere & Prof.dr. P.N. Nkwi (University of Yaounde)

Rachel Spronk

Ambiguous Pleasures. Sexuality and new self-definitions in Nairobi (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 7 June 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. P.L. Geschiere & Prof.dr. B. Meyer

Catelijne Akkermans

Aanspoelen aan de Achtergracht. Maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen, clientèlevorming en de psychiatrische patiënten van de Amsterdamse GG & GD (1933 - 1988)

Date of Ceremony: 16 May 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Dr. W.J. Gomperts

Martijn Oosterbaan

Divine Mediations. Pentecostalism, Politics and Mass Media in a Favela in Rio de Janeiro

Date of Ceremony: 10 May 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. B. Meyer & Prof.dr. J.M. Baud

J. Joost Beuving

Cotonou' s Klondike. A sociological analysis of entrepreneurship in the Euro-West African second-hand car trade

Date of Ceremony: 3 May 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. P.L. Geschiere & Dr. J.K. van Donge (RUL)

Roy Gigengack

Young, Damned and Banda. The World of Young Street People in Mexico City, 1990-1997

Date of Ceremony: 28 April 2006
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Verrips

Barak Kalir

Christian Aliens in the Jewish State. Undocumented Migrants from Latin America Striving for Practical National Belonging in Israel

Date of Ceremony: 28 February 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. P.T. van der Veer & Dr. G. Baumann

Esther Peperkamp

Being a Christian - "Being the same everywhere". Teenagers on religion, self, and society in post-socialist Poland

Date of Ceremony: 9 February 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. P.T. van der Veer & Dr. P.T. van Rooden

Francio Guadeloupe

Chanting down the New Jerusalem: the Politics of Belonging on Saint Martin and Sint Maarten

Date of Ceremony: 11 January 2006
Advisors: Prof.dr. B. Meyer & Prof.dr. P.L. Geschiere

Irfan Ahmad

From Islamism to Post-Islamism. The Transformation of The Jamaat-e-Islami in North India (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 29 November 2005
Advisor: Prof.dr. P.T. van der Veer

Harald Bekkers

Between Fixing and Forecasting. Provincial Ahmedabad Brokered into a Bridgehead for Globalization from Below

Date of Ceremony: 21 October 2005
Advisors: Prof.dr. O.D. van den Muijzenberg & Prof.dr. M.A.F. Rutten

Gianluca Carnabuci

A Theory of Knowledge Growth. Network analysis of US patents, 1975-1999

Date of Ceremony: 18 October 2005
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Visser & Prof.dr. W. van Rossum (UT)

Anouk de Koning

Global Dreams. Space, Class and Gender in Middle Class Cairo

Date of Ceremony: 21 September 2005
Advisor: Prof.dr. A.C.A.E. Moors

Getnet Tadele

Bleak Prospects: Young men, sexuality and HIV/AIDS in an Ethiopian Town

Date of Ceremony: 7 September 2005
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.D.M. van der Geest, Dr. G. Hekma & Dr. H. Kloos

Bowen Paulle

Anxiety and Intimidation in the Bronx and the Bijlmer. An ethnographic comparison of two schools

Date of Ceremony: 16 June 2005
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Prof.dr. N. Wilterdink

Lizzy van Leeuwen

Lost in Mall. An Ethnography of Middle Class Jakarta in the 1990's

Date of Ceremony: 9 June 2005
Advisors: Prof.dr. H.G.C. Schulte Nordholt & Prof.dr. P.E. Spyer (RUL)

Kamenko Bulic

Debts, Loans, and Refugee Regimes. A Compartive Study among Bosnian Refugees in Germany, The Netherlands, and Australia

Date of Ceremony: 20 May 2005
Prof.dr. P.T. van der Veer, Dr. G. Baumann & Dr. M. van de Port

Farsijana Adeney-Risakotta

Politics, Ritual and Identity in Indonesia. A Moluccan History of Religion and Social Conflict

Date of Ceremony (RUN): 18 May 2005
Advisors: Prof.dr. F. Hüsken (RUN), Prof.dr. L. Visser (WU) & Dr. P.M. Laksono (Indonesia)

Jaap Timmer

Politiegeweld. Geweldgebruik van en tegen de politie in Nederland

Date of Ceremony: 26 April 2005 (Free University Amsterdam)

Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Naeyé (VU) & Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Don Weenink

Upper Middle-class Resources of Power in the Education Arena. Dutch Elite Schools in an Age of Globalisation

Date of Ceremony: 11 February 2005
Advisors: Prof.dr J. Dronkers (EUI) & Dr. A.J. de Regt

Erwan Agus Purwanto

Ups and Downs in Rural Javanese Industry. The Dynamics of Work and Life of Small-Scale Garment Manufacturers and their Families

Date of Ceremony: 9 September 2004
Advisors: Prof.dr J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. B.N.F. White (ISS)

Liora Sion

Changing from Green to Blue Beret. A Tale of Two Dutch Peacekeeping Units

Date of Ceremony (VU): 3 June 2004
Advisors: Prof.dr. D. Winslow (VU) & Prof.dr J. Soeters (UvT, KMA)

Bob van der Linden

Tradition, rationality and social consciousness: the Singh Sabha, Arya Samaj and Ahmadiyah moral languages from colonial Punjab

Date of Ceremony: 25 February 2004
Advisors: Prof.dr. D.H.A. Kolff (RUL) & Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Eileen Moyer

In the shadow of the Sheraton: Imagining localities in global spaces in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Date of Ceremony: 14 November 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Fabian & Prof.dr. P.L. Geschiere

Marcel Hoogenboom

Standenstrijd en zekerheid: een geschiedenis van oude orde en sociale zorg in Nederland (1880-1940)

Date of Ceremony: 2 September 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Prof.dr. J.Th.J. van den Berg (RUL)

Mathijs Pelkmans

Uncertain Divides. Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics in the Georgian Borderlands

Date of Ceremony: 25 June 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. Blok & Prof.dr. H. Driessen (RUN)

Marja Spierenburg

Strangers, spirits and landreforms. Conflicts about land in Dande, northern Zimbabwe

Date of Ceremony: 24 June 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen & Prof.dr. P. Geschiere

Shahaduz Zaman

Broken Limbs, Broken Lives. Ethnography of a Hospital Ward in Bangladesh

Date of Ceremony: 23 June 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr J. van der Geest & Prof.dr. P. Streefland

Daniel Kojo Arhinful

The Solidarity of Self-Interest. Social and Cultural Feasability of Rural Health Insurance in Ghana

Date of Ceremony: 23 June 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr J. van der Geest & Dr. B. Criel (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium)

Sean Chabot

The Gandhian Repertoire’s Transnational Diffusion to the American Civil Rights Movement

Date of Ceremoney: 28 May 2003
Advisors: prof.dr. J.W. Duyvendak, Dr. R. Rutten & Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Marina de Regt

Pioneers or Pawns? Women Health Workers and the Poltics of Development in Yemen

Date of Cermony: 22 April 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr. A.C.A.E. Moors & Prof.dr. J.D.M. van der Geest

Krystof Obidzinski

Logging in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The Historical Expedience of Illegality

Date: of Ceremony: 14 March 2003
Advisors: Prof.dr. F. Hüsken (RUN) & Prof.dr. L.E. Visser (UvA)

Laurent Chambon

Le sel de la démocratie. L'accès des minorités au pouvoir politique en France et aux Pays-Bas

Date of Ceremony: 21 November 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.W. Duyvendak & Dr. H. Schijf

Ruly Marianti

Surviving Spouses. Support for Widows in Malang, East Java

Date of Ceremony: 20 November 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. O.D. van den Muijzenberg

Song Ping

Transnational Social Practice from below: the Experiences of a Chinese Lineage

Date of Ceremony: 12 November 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. O.D. van den Muijzenberg, Prof.dr. H. Sutherland (VU), Dr. L.M. Douw & Prof.dr. M.A.F. Rutten

Marieke Riethof

Responses of the Brazilian Labour Movement to Economic and Political Reforms

Date of Ceremony: 6 November 2002.
Advisors: Prof.dr. G.C.A. Junne, Dr. A.E. Fernandez Jilberto & Dr. M.H. Marchand

Baz Lecocq

'That Desert is Our Country'. Tuareg Rebellions and Competing Nationalisms in Contemporary Mali (1946-1996)

Date of Ceremony: 6 November 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen& Dr. R.J. Ross (RUL)

Margaret von Faber

Maten van succes bij ouderen. Gezondheid, aanpassing en sociaal welbevinden

Date of Ceremony: 11 october 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. van der Geest, Prof.dr. D.L. Knook (RUL)& Dr. E. van Dongen (UvA)

Sikko Visscher

Business, Ethnicity and State. The Representational Relationship of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the State, 1945-1997

Date of Ceremony: 4 October 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. H. Sutherland (VU) & Dr. L. Douw

Erik Bähre

Money and Violence: Financial Mutuals among the Xhosa in Cape Town, South Africa

Date of Ceremony: 4 September 2002
Advisors: Dr. R. Ross (RUL) & Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Peer Smets

Housing Finance and the Urban Poor: building and financing low-income housing in Hyderabad, India

Date of Ceremony: 25 April 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. P. Kloos (VU), Prof.dr. O.D. van den Muijzenberg (AMIDSt) &
Prof.dr. I.S.A. Baud

Aspha Bijnaar

Kasmoni. Spaarzame levensgenieters in Suriname en Nederland

Date of Ceremony: 28 February 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. M. van der Linden & Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Hotze Lont

Juggling Money in Yogyakarta. Financial self-help organisations and the quest for security

Date of Ceremony: 10 January 2002
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Prof.dr. F.A.M. Hüsken (RUN)

Peter Keppy

Hidden Business: indigenous and Chinese entrepreneurs in the Majalaya textile industry, West Java, 1928-1974

Date of Ceremony: 4 December 2001
Advisors: Prof.dr. H. Sutherland (VU) & Prof.dr. F.A.M. Hüsken (RUN)

Eric Vermeulen

Een proeve van leven. Praten en beslissen over extreem te vroeg geboren kinderen

Date of Ceremony: 15 November 2001
Advisors: Prof.dr. S. van der Geest & Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Marianne Franklin

The Internet and Postcolonial Politics of Representation: Pacific Traversals

Date of Ceremony: 8 November 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. G. Junne

Marieke Bloembergen

Koloniale Vertoningen. De verbeelding van Nederlands-Indië op de wereldtentoonstellingen (1880-1931)

Date of Ceremony: 5 September 2001
Advisors: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer & Prof.dr. H. Schulte Nordholt

Margit van Wessel

Modernity and Identity. An ethnography of moral ambiguity and negotiations in an Indian middle class

Date of Ceremony: 22 June 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Maria Téresa Brancaccio

"But Fidgety Phil/He won't sit still...". From instability to hyperactivity, 1980's - 1990's

Date of Ceremony: 21 June 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Sandra Evers

Constructing History, Culture and Inequality: The Betsileo in the Extreme Southern Highlands of Madagascar

Date of Ceremony: 19 June 2001
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman, Prof.dr. M. Bloch (France) & Dr. H. Streefkerk

Margaret Sleeboom

I. Academic Nationalism: Its categorization and consequences explored in China and Japan. II. Academic Nationalism with Chinese Characteristics: The institutional role of CASS in the formation of the Chinese nation-state (with honours)

Date of Cermony: 13 June 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Jeroen de Kloet

Red Sonic Trajectories - Popular Music and Youth in Urban China

Date of Ceremony: 30 May 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Pujo Semedi

Close to the stone, far from the throne. The story of a Javanese fishing community, 1820-1990

Date of Ceremony: 6 March 2001
Advisors: Prof.dr. F.A.M. Hüsken (RUN), Prof.dr. P.M. Laksono (Indonesia) & Dr. H.M.C. de Jonge (TU Delft)

Damián Zaitch

Traquetos. Colombians involved in the cocaine business in the Netherlands (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 16 February 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. F. Bovenkerk (UU)

Gerda van Roozendaal

Social Challenges to Trade. Trade unions and the debate on international labour standards

Date of Ceremony: 13 February 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Visser

Giselinde Kuipers

Goede humor, slechte smaak. Een sociologie van de mop. (Good Humor, Bad Taste: a Sociology of the Joke) (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 18 January 2001
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Goudsblom

Abdoulaye Kane

Les caméléons de la finance populaire au Sénégal et dans la diaspora

Date of Ceremony: 16 January 2001
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Prof.dr. P. Geschiere

Ferdinand de Jong

Modern Secrets. The power of locality in Casamance, Senegal

Date of Ceremony (VU): 11 January 2001
Advisors: Prof.dr. W.M.J. van Binsbergen & Prof.dr. H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen

Clementine van Eck

Door bloed gezuiverd. Eerwraak bij Turken in Nederland

Date of Ceremony: 14 November 2000
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. Blok & Dr. H. Driessen (RUN)

Matthijs van den Bos

An exploration of comparitive social development and cultural performance. Sufi orders in the Pahlavi Dynasty and the Islamic Republic of Iran

Date of Ceremony: 6 September 2000
Advisors: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer & Dr. B. Radtke (UU)

Michael Chai

A Sense of Space. Land Struggles of the Semai of Peninsular Malaysia

Date of Ceremony: 30 May 2000
Advisors: Prof.dr. P. Kloos (VU) & Prof.dr. J. Breman

Oussama Cherribi

Imams d' Amsterdam. A travers l' exemple des imams de la diaspora marocaine

Date of Ceremony: 12 May 2000
Advisors: Prof.dr. M. Arkoun (France) & Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Nguyen Van Chinh

Work Without Name. Changing patterns of children's work in a Northern Vietnamese village

Date of Ceremony: 11 January 2000
Advisors: Prof.dr. O.D. van den Muijzenberg, Prof.dr. B. White (ISS) & Dr. J. Kleinen

Oscar Salemink

Beyond Complicity and Naiveté: Contextualizing the Ethnography of Vietnam's Central Highlanders, 1850-1990

Date of Ceremony: 17 December 1999
Advisors: Prof.dr. P. Kloos (VU) & Prof.dr. J. Pluvier

Oskar Verkaaik

Inside the Citadel. Fun, Violence and Religious Nationalism in Hyderabad, Pakistan (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 11 November 1999
Advisor: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Erwiza Erman

Miners, Managers and the State; A Socio-Political History of the Ombilin-coalmines, West Sumatra, 1892-1996

Date of Ceremony: 28 October 1999
Advisors: Prof.dr. H. Sutherland (VU) & Dr. H. Schulte Nordholt

Wu Xiao An

Chinese Family Business Networks in the Making of a Malay State: Kedah and the Region c. 1892-1941

Date of Ceremony: 30 September 1999
Advisors: Prof.dr. H. Sutherland (VU) & Prof.dr. Cheah Boon Kheng (Malaysia)

Wilma Aarts

De status van soberheid. Een onderzoek naar status en milieuvriendelijke zelfbeperking (The Status of Sobriety. A Study on Status and Environmentally Friendly Self-Restraint)

Date of Ceremony: 10 September 1999
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Goudsblom

Ger Duijzings

Religion and Politics of Identity in Kosovo

Date of Ceremony: 28 May 1999
Advisors: Prof.dr. M. Bax (VU) & Prof.dr. H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen

Dienke Hondius

Gemengde Huwelijken, gemengde gevoelens. Aanvaarding en ontwijking van etnisch en religieus verschil sinds 1945 (Mixed marriages, Mixed Feelings. Acceptance and Avoidance of Ethnic and Religious Differences since 1945)

Date of Ceremony: 22 April 1999
Advisor: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Ingmar Westerman

Authority and Utility: John Millar, James Mill and the Politics of History c. 1770-1836

Date of Ceremony: 21 April 1999
Advisor: Prof.dr. S. Stuurman

David Bos

In dienst van het Koninkrijk. Beroepsontwikkeling van hervormde predikanten in negentiende-eeuws Nederland (In the Service of the kingdom. Professional Development of Protestant Ministers in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century)

Date of Ceremony: 8 April 1999
Advisor: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Mieke Komen

Gevaarlijke kinderen - kinderen in gevaar. De justitiële kinderbescherming en de veranderende sociale positie van jongeren, 1960-1995. (Dangerous Children-Children in Danger. The Official Child Welfare System and the Altered Social Position of Youngsters, 1960-1995)

Date of Ceremony: 19 January 1999
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Dr. A. de Regt

Yolanda van Ede

House of Birds. A Historical Ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist Nunnery in Nepal

Date of Ceremony: 12 January 1999
Advisor: Prof.dr. P. van der Veer

Li Minghuan

"We need two worlds!" A study of the Chinese Organisational Movement in the Netherlands

Date of Ceremony: 15 December 1998
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. S. Leydesdorff

Marc van der Meer

Vaklieden en Werkzekerheid: kansen en rechten van insiders en outsiders op de arbeidsmarkt in de bouwnijverheid. (Skilled Workers and Employment Security. Opportunities and Rights of Insiders and Outsiders on the Construction Labour Market)

Date of Ceremony: 9 December 1998
Advisors: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt & Prof.dr. J. Visser

Elies Eydems

Werken voor weinig. Loyaliteit en uitkeringsnijd onder laag betaalde werkenden. (Working for Peanuts. Loyalty and Welfare Envy among Poorly Paid Workers)

Date of Ceremony: 19 November 1998
Advisor: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Marion van San

Stelen en steken. Delinquent gedrag door Curaçaose jongens in Nederland. (Stealing and Stabbing. Curaçaoan Juvenile Delinquency in the Netherlands)

Date of Ceremony: 4 September 1998
Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt & Dr. A. de Regt

Tom Pfeil

'Tot redding van het vaderland'. Het primaat van de Nederlandse overheidsfinanciën in de Bataafs-Franse tijd 1795-1810. ('To the Rescue of the Mother Country'. The Primacy of Dutch State Financing in the Batavian/French period 1795-1810)

Date of Ceremony: 23 June 1998
Advisors: Prof.dr. P. de Rooy & Prof.dr. S. Stuurman

Remco Ensel

Saints and Servants. Hierarchical Interdependence between Shurfa and Haratin in the Moroccan deep South

Date of Ceremony: 15 June 1998
Advisors: Prof.dr. A.. Blok & Prof.dr. W.H.M. Jansen (RUN)

Talja Blokland-Potters

Wat stadsbewoners bindt. Sociale relaties in een achterstandswijk

Date of Ceremony: 2 March 1998
Advisor: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Joanna Swabe

The Burden of Beasts. A Historical Sociological Study of Changing Human Animal Relations and the Rise of the Veterinary regime

Date of Ceremony: 5 December 1997
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Goudsblom & Dr. B. van Heerikhuizen

Minna Säävälä

Child as Hope. Contextualizing Fertility Transition in Rural South India

Date of Ceremony: 13 October 1997
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. P. Streefland

Maaike Hendriks

Vegetable Trade in the Central Philippines. An Anthropological Study of Exchange and Credit in a Modernizing Economy

Date of Ceremony: 17 September 1997
Advisors: Prof.dr. O.D. van den Muijzenberg & Prof.dr. W.G. Wolters (RUN)

Kutut Suwondo

The Emergence of Civil Society in Rural Java. Socio-Political Change under the New Order in a Central Javanese Village

Date of Ceremony: 16 September 1997
Advisors: Prof.dr. F.A.M. Hüsken, Dr. N.L. Kana (Indonesia), Dr. N.G. Schulte Nordholt & Dr. L.E. Visser

Juliette Koning

Generations of Change. A Javanese Village in the 1990s

Date of Ceremony: 30 June 1997
Advisors: Prof.dr. F.A.M. Hüsken & Prof.dr B. White (ISS)

Geertje van Os

De vrouwen van de doden. Betekenis en beleving van het weduwschap in Extremadura (Spanje)

Date of Ceremony: 27 May 1997
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. Blok & Prof.dr. W. Jansen (UU)

Stefan Dudink

Deugdzaam liberalisme. Sociaal-liberalisme in Nederland 1870-1901 (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 16 May 1997
Advisor: Prof.dr. S. Stuurman

Tibor Dessewffy

The Seductions of Communism

Date of Ceremony: 15 April 1997
Advisor: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Maruska Svasek

Styles, Struggles, and Careers. An Ethnography of the Czech Art World, 1948-1992 (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 17 December 1996
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Fabian & Prof.dr. B. Kempers

Jos E. Mooij

Food Policy and Politics. The Public Distribution System in Karnataka and Kerala, South India

Date of Ceremony: 29 November 1996
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. F. von Benda-Beckmann (LUW)

Wang Hongsheng

From Revolutionary Vanguards to Pioneer Entrepreneurs. A Study of Rural Elite in a Chinese Village

Date of Ceremony: 14 December 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. P. Kloos (VU) & Dr. L. Douw

Darshini Anna de Zoysa

The Great Sandy River. Class and Gender Transformation among Pioneer Settlers in Sri Lanka's Frontier

Date of Ceremony: 21 December 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. C. Risseeuw

Paul Baak

Plantation Production and Political Power. Plantation development in southwest India in a long-term historical perspective, 1743-1963

Date of Ceremony: 26 October 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. H.A. Sutherland (VU) & Dr. D. Kooiman (VU)

Gerrit Burgwal

Struggle of the Poor. Neighborhood Organization and Clientelist Practice in a Quito Squatter Settlement

Date of Ceremony: 12 October 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. G.A. Bank & Dr. J.J. van der Linden (IISG)

Josine van der Horst

'Who is he, What is he doing?' Religious Rhetoric and Performancew in Sri Lanka during R. Premadasa's Presidency (1989-1993)

Date of Ceremony: 29 September 1995
Advisor: Prof.dr. P. Kloos

Christiaan Heersink

A Socio-economic History of an Indonesian Coconut Island c. 1600-1950: Perspectives from a Periphery

Date of Ceremony: 26 June 1995, Free University
Advisors: Prof.dr. H. Sutherland (VU) & Dr. H.C.G. Schule Nordholt

Birgit Meyer

Translating the Devil. An African Appropriation of Pietist Protestantism. The Case of the Peki Ewe in Southeastern Ghana, 1847-1992 (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 15 June 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Fabian & Prof.dr. H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen

Don Kalb

Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, North Brabant Illustrations, ca. 1850-1950 (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 9 June 1995, University of Utrecht
Advisors: Prof.dr. G.H. Jansen & Prof.dr. J.A. Righart

Anne Gevers

Façades. Oostenrijkers en het oorlogsverleden

Date of Ceremony: 21 April 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. Blok & Prof.dr. S. Stuurman

Gabriël van den Brink

De grote overgang. Een lokaal onderzoek naar de modernisering van het bestaan Woensel 1670-1920. (The great transition. A local study into the modernization of life Woensel 1670-1920) (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 12 April 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. W.T.M. Frijhoff (EUR) & Prof.dr. S. Stuurman

Kathinka Kerkhoff

Save ourselves and the girls! Girlhood in Calcutta under the Raj (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 24 February 1995
Advisors: Prof.dr. C. Risseeuw & Prof.dr. W. van Schendel

Karin Fierke

Excavating the Ruins of the Cold War: Recovering the Contours of a Changing Security Culture.

Date of Ceremony: 5 January 1995, University of Minnesota, USA
Advisors: Prof.dr. H. Righart & Prof.dr. D. Sylvan

Sonja van 't Hof

Anorexia nervosa: the historical and cultural specificity. Fallacious theories and tenacious facts

Date of Ceremony: 2 December 1994
Advisor: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Gerrit van Vegchel

'We hebben Emmen met subsidie groot gemaakt'. Beheerste modernisering in Zuidoost-Drenthe: 1945-1965

Date of Ceremony: 1 December 1994
Advisors: Prof.dr. S. Stuurman & Dr. H. de Liagre Böhl

Arjan de Haan

Unsettled Settlers; Migrant Workers and Industrial Capitalism in Calcutta

Date of Ceremony: 27 October 1994
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. H.W. van Schendel

Mattijs van de Port

The end of the World. Civilization, unreason and Gypsy taverns in Serbia (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 25 October 1994
Advisor: Prof.dr. H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen

Ine Vanweesenbeeck

Prostitutes' well-being and risk

Date of Ceremony: 30 June 1994
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. Komter (UU) & Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Herman Tak

Zuiditaliaanse Festivals. Een lokale geschiedenis van ritueel en verandering. (South Italian Festivals. A local history of rituals and change)

Date of Ceremony: 26 May 1994
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Boissevain

Pieter Gorter

The rise of a new class of industrialists. Economic and Political Networks on an Industrial Estate in West India

Date of Ceremony: 26 May 1994
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Dr. H. Streefkerk

Anita van Velzen

"Who's the boss?" Marginalisation and Power in Food-Processing Household Enterprises, West Java, Indonesia

Date of Ceremony: 28 March 1994
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman & Prof.dr. E. Postel-Coster

Irwan Abdullah

The Muslim Businessmen of Jatinom. Religious Reform and Economic Modernization in a Central Javanese Town

Date of Ceremony: 16 February 1994
Advisors: Prof.dr. F.A.M. Hüsken & Prof.dr. J.C. Breman

Maarten van Bottenburg

Verborgen competitie. Over de uiteenlopende populariteit van sporten. (Hidden Competition. The differential Popularization of Sports) (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 11 February 1994
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Goudsblom & Dr. R. Stokvis

Hannie te Grotenhuis

Bijstandskinderen. Opgroeien aan de rand van de verzorgingsstaat. (Welfare Children. Growing Up on the Fringes of the Welfare State)

Date of Ceremony: 19 November 1993
Advisor: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Ido de Haan

Zelfbestuur en staatsbeheer. Het politieke debat over burgerschap en rechtsstaat in de twintigste eeuw. (Self government and the Management of the State. The Political Debate on Citizenship and the State in the Twentieth Century)

Date of Ceremony: 28 October 1993
Advisors: Prof.dr. S. Stuurman & Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Jan Willem Gerritsen

De politieke economie van de roes. De ontwikkeling van reguleringsregimes voor alcohol en opiaten. (The Political Economy of Intoxication; Changes in the Regimes of Social Regulation for Alcohol and Opiates)

Date of Ceremony: 7 October 1993
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Goudsblom & Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Annet Mooij

Geslachtsziekten en besmettingsangst: een historisch-sociologische studie (1850-1990). (Venereal Disease and Fear of Infection. A Historical Sociological Study (1850-1990)

Date of Ceremony: 30 September 1993
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan & Prof.dr. P. de Rooy

Rob van Ginkel

Tussen Scylla en Charybdis. Een etnohistorie van Texels vissersvolk (1813-1932). (Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea. An Ethnohistory of Texelian Fisher Folk (1813-1932) (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 23 September 1993
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Verrips

Sjerp van der Ploeg

The Expansion of Secondary and Tertiary Education in the Netherlands

Date of Ceremony: 19 February 1993, University of Brabant
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.A.M. van Wezel & Prof.dr. J. Dronkers

Peter Pels

Critical Matters. Interactions Between Missionaries and Waluguru in Colonial Tanganyika, 1930-1961 (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 15 January 1993
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Fabian & Prof.dr. H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen

Rosalia Sciortino

Care-takers of Cure. A study of Health Centre Nurses in Rural Central Java (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 11 November 1992, Free University Amsterdam
Advisors: Prof.dr. J.W. Schoorl, Co-advisors: Dr. K. v.d. Veen & Dr. P. Quarles van Ufford

Ruud Koopmans

Democracy from Below: New social Movements and the Political System in West Germany

Date of Ceremony: 23 October 1992
Advisors: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt & Prof.dr. H.P. Kriesi

Jan-Willem Duyvendak

The Power of Politics: New Social Movements in an Old Polity. France 1965-1989

Date of Ceremony: 23 October 1992
Advisors: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt & Prof.dr. H.P. Kriesi

Fred Spier

Religious Regimes in Peru. Religion and State Development in a Long-term Perspective and the Effects in the Andean Village of Zurite (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 12 October 1992
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Goudsblom & Prof.dr. M.M.G. Bax

Els van der Borg

Vroedvrouwen: Beeld en Beroep. Ontwikkelingen in het vroedvrouwschap in Leiden, Arnhem, 's Hertogenbosch en Leeuwarden, 1650-1865. (Midwives: Images and Occupation. Development in Midwivery in Leiden, Arnhem, 's Hertogenbosch and Leeuwarden, 1650-1865)

Date of Ceremony: 26 May 1992
Advisors: Prof.dr. A. Blok & Prof.dr. N. Wilterdink

Nico den Tuinder

Population and society in Kheda district (India), 1819-1921. A Study of the Economic Context of Demographic Developments

Date of Ceremony: 22 May 1992
Advisor: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman

Harry Oosterhuis

De smalle marges van de Roomse moraal. (The Narrow Margins of Roman Catholic Morals)

Date of Ceremony: 9 January 1992
Advisor: Prof.dr. A. de Swaan

Karin van Nieuwkerk

A Trade Like Any Other. Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt. An Anthropological Study of the Relation between Gender and Respactability in the Entertainment Trade

Date of Ceremony: 18 December 1991
Advisor: Prof.dr. J. Boissevain

Rob Schwitters

De risico's van de arbeid. Het ontstaan van de Ongevallenwet 1901 in sociologisch perspectief. (The Risks of Work. The Making of the 1901 Accident Law in Sociological Perspective)

Date of Ceremony: 4 December 1991, University of Utrecht
Advisors: Prof.dr. A.J. Hoekema & Prof.dr. A.A.G. Peters

Leny de Groot-van Leeuwen

De rechterlijke macht in Nederland. Samenstelling en denkbeelden van de zittende en staande magistratuur. (Judges in the Netherlands. Composition and Ideas of the Public Prosecution and the Court)

Date of Ceremony: 1 November 199, University of Utrecht
Advisor: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Mario Rutten

Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Economic Diversification. Social Profile of Large Farmers and Rural Industrialists in Central Gujarat, India (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 24 June 1991
Advisor: Prof.dr. J.C. Breman

Godfried Engbersen

Publieke bijstandsgeheimen. Het ontstaan van een onderklasse in Nederland. (Public Welfare Secrets. The Emergence of an Underclass in the Netherlands)

Date of Ceremony: 23 January 1990, University of Leiden
Advisor: Prof.dr.mr. C.J.M. Schuyt

Sophie de Schaepdrijver

Elites for the Capital? Foreign Migration to Mid-nineteenth-Century Brussels

Date of Ceremony: 21 December 1990
Advisors: Prof.dr. J. Goudsblom & Dr. H. Diederiks

Robert Pool

There Must Have Been Something... Interpretations of Illness and Misfortune in Cameroon Village (with honours)

Date of Ceremony: 6 December 1989
Advisor: Prof.dr . J. Fabian