Nikki Mulder is a PhD candidate and teacher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. Her dissertation 'Financing Afterlives' examines how racial inequality shapes the consumption and use of life insurance policies in New Orleans, USA. This project is part of the ERC funded project 'Moralising misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance'. Nikki teaches workgroups in the Bachelor’s program and supervises students writing their BSc thesis.

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Nikki Mulder is a PhD candidate and teacher at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University. Her research broadly explores the operation of financial and political institutions in people's everyday lives, within the historical context of postcolonialism in the United States, the pan-Caribbean region and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Her dissertation 'Financing Afterlives' examines how racial inequality shapes the consumption and use of life insurance policies in New Orleans, USA. It is situated at the crossroads of anthropological debates on finance, death, time, and value. This project is part of the ERC funded project Moralising misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance. 

Nikki previously worked as a journalist for newspaper De Ware Tijd in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 2016, she completed her research master in Cultural Anthropology (cum laude, Utrecht University) with a study of non-sovereignty and bureaucratic practices on Saba.

Nikki is also an editor of the anthropological journal Etnofoor and plays around with creative forms of ethnographic writing and fiction.

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