PhD research

The African Studies Centre currently hosts about 15-20 resident PhD students who work on a variety of themes and regions. As of January 2012, the ASC has a new research programme entitled ‘African Dynamism amidst Global Restructuring’ that has four different fields of study and the PhD students’ research is reflected in these themes.

African trajectories of improved well-being and their impact on people and resources
Mediating identities of Africans in Africa and beyond
Constellations of governance in Africa: Historical and contemporary studies
Africa’s connections to the world: Africa negotiating an increasingly multi-polar world

The African Studies Centre in itself does not offer PhD-programmes for prospective students. On rare occasions the African Studies Centre offers a vacancy for a PhD-student.
PhD-students (with a grant) looking for a supervisor can contact a member of our research staff.

For the ASC PhD's there is an online forum: www.ascphd.pbworks.com. With this online forum we would like to bring together all PhD's linked to the ASC, wherever they may be at any point in time. Please contact Michiel van den Bergh and Inge Butter for more information.

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Adamou Amadou, The nomads and insecurity: From free “movers” to immobile and dependants or from mobile to displayed people?

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Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Aenne Post, Hippo-human conflict in Kenya

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Agnieszka Kazimierczuk, The impact of school feeding programmes on the well-being of the ultra poor in Ghana

PhD student:

Agnieszka Kazimierczuk

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Anika Altaf, Reaching the ultra poor: comparing NGO approaches in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Benin

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Arnold Pannenborg, The financial, political and prestigious reasons for administrators and clubofficials to run and sponsor football in Ghana and Cameroon

Supervisor:

Wouter van Beek

Bethuel Kinuthia, Comparing Malaysia’s and Kenya’s foreign direct investment and industrial development policies

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Blandina Kilama, Cashewnuts: comparing Vietnam and Tanzania

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Djimet Seli , Mobile Phone and its impact on the social relations in the marginalized regions and their diaspora

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Doreen Setume, Modernity: a gender based assessment of changed courtship patterns and cohabitation in Botswana: a case study of Bakwena of Molepole

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn, Rijk van Dijk

Evelyne Tegomoh, Human mobility, networks and institutions in the management of natural resources in Africa

PhD student:

Evelyne Tegomoh

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Fatimata Diallo, The technologies of information and the communication and the construction of the State under the rule of law in Senegal

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Harrie Leyten, Objects with power

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Wouter van Beek

Henrietta Nyamnjoh, Communication technologies, politics and mobility in the Bamenda Grassfields and amongst Bamenda Grassfielders in the South West Province of Cameroon and in the diaspora

PhD student:

Henrietta Nyamnjoh

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Inge Butter, The role of changing ‘connections’ in the formation of cultural and religious communal identities amongst marginal Muslims in post-conflict Chad

PhD student:

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn

Karin Nijenhuis, The mobility of farmers in relation to access to land and conflict in Mali

PhD student:

Karin Nijenhuis

Supervisor:

Han van Dijk, Mayke Kaag

Karin van Bemmel, Mental health and the conceptualization of illness in a post-conflict area

PhD student:

Karin van Bemmel

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Kiky van Oostrum, Urbanization of a Nomadic society

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk

Laguerre Djerandi, Chad-World Bank’s approach of establishing a legal framework guiding the management of oil revenues: A model of governance confronted to national practice

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn, Han van Dijk

Laurens Nijzink, Through the eye of time: Otommari society in temporal perspective, timescapes and action

Supervisor:

Wouter van Beek, Mirjam de Bruijn

Lotje de Vries, Transnational perspectives on regional fragility; the construction of a Southern-Sudanese state seen from the peripheral border regions

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Margot Leegwater, Land access and local conflicts in Rwanda

PhD student:

Margot Leegwater

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Marion Eeckhout, How to boost mediocre economic performance in the Sub-Sahara: a comparison of institutional processes of change in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania

Supervisor:

André Leliveld

Martin van Vliet, An in-depth empirical study of the democratic consolidation process in Mali

PhD student:

Martin van Vliet

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Maru Shete, Land grabbing in Ethiopia

PhD student:

Maru Shete Bekele

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Marcel Rutten

Melle Leenstra, Beyond the façade: instrumentalisation of the Zambian health sector

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Jan-Bart Gewald

Mercy Derkyi , Forest governance and conflict management in Ghana

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Michiel van den Bergh, Livelihood changes and their impact on land use, habitat and the survival of migratory bird species in Burkina Faso

PhD student:

Michiel van den Bergh

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken

Mirjam Schomaker, Knowledge network dynamics with regard to biofuels expansion

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Romborah Robert Simiyu, Gender dynamics of urban agriculture in Eldoret, Kenya

Supervisor:

Ton Dietz, Dick Foeken

Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo, Decentralized land governance and legal pluralism in Burundi

PhD student:

Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo

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Samantha Williams, Access conflicts at the Coast of the Western Cape in South Africa

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Samuel Ntewusu, Settling in and holding on: a socio-economic history of northern traders and transporters in Accra's Tudu: 1908-2008

Supervisor:

Mirjam de Bruijn, Jan-Bart Gewald

Sander Muilerman, Cocoa governance in Ghana

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Sebastiaan Soeters, How has the introduction of motorized transportation shaped the social and economic lives of Tamale's rapidly increasing, urban population?

Supervisor:

Jan-Bart Gewald

Serena Nasong’o, Ecological change and livelihood dynamics along Lake Victoria

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Verina Ingram, Non-timber forest product governance in Cameroon.

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Zulaiga Worth, Buchu in the Cape as a mirror of South Africa’s recent dynamics

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