Amsterdam

Anouk de Koning
Anouk de Koning is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University, where she leads the Reproducing Europe project. During her PhD, she conducted anthropological research on the middle class in Cairo. She subsequently carried out social historical research in Suriname and anthropological research in Amsterdam’s Diamantbuurt. She is the author of Global Dreams: Class, Gender and Public Space in Cosmopolitan Cairo (AUC, 2009) and Introducing Urban Anthropology (Routledge, 2016). Besides leading the project, she also researches how professionals working in the domain of parenting in Amsterdam negotiate notions of good citizenship in encounters with their diverse clientele.
a.dekoning@maw.ru.nlwww.ru.nl/caos/vm/koning/

Wiebe Ruijtenberg
Wiebe Ruijtenberg is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, Radboud University. As part of the Reproducing Europe project, his research explores experiences of fatherhood among Egyptian fathers in Amsterdam, focusing in particular on the ways in which Egyptian fathers deal with social expectations regarding their parenting. Wiebe graduated from the Research Master Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with a thesis on social life in gated communities in Cairo, Egypt.
w.ruijtenberg@maw.ru.nl