Nikki Mulder
PhD
- Name
- N. Mulder MSc
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3451
- n.mulder@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3670-5884
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.
PhD
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
Lecturer
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Mulder N. (2024), Game over. In: Roekel E. van & Murphy F. (Eds.), A collection of creative anthropologies: drowning in blue light and other stories. Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology (PSLA). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 221-225.
- Mulder N. & Roekel E. van (2024), Introduction: fiction and worlds unknown, Etnofoor 36(1): 7-11.
- Mulder N. & Roekel E. van (2024), Introduction: Fiction and Worlds Unknown, Etnofoor 36(1): 7-12.
- Mulder N. (2023), Review of: Golomski C. (2018), Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom.. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Transforming Anthropology 31(1): 76-77.
- Bäumer Escobar V. & Mulder N. (2023), Introduction: debt, Etnofoor 35(1): 7-11.
- Mulder N. (2022), Stories of autonomy on non-sovereign Saba: flipping the script of postcolonial resistance. In: Guadeloupe F. & Pijl Y. van der (Eds.) Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean: ways of being non/sovereign. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. 20-36.
- Mulder N. & Cremers G. (2021), Introduction: waste and its metamorphoses, Etnofoor 33(2): 7-11.
- Mulder N. (2020), Bad deaths, good funerals: the values of life insurance in New Orleans, Economic Anthropology 7(2): 241-252.
- Schut T. & Mulder N. (2019), Introduction: The Vibrant Village, Etnofoor 31(2): 7-11.
- Mulder N. (17 April 2018), The Price of Death: Life Insurance in Black New Orleans. Leiden Anthropology Blog. [blog entry].
- Mulder N. (2018), Stories of Autonomy on Non-Sovereign Saba: Flipping the Script of Postcolonial Resistance, Etnofoor 30(1): 11-28.
- Mulder N. (2018), Some reflections on #MeToo and fieldwork, LOVA: Tijdschrift voor feministische antropologie 12: 68-71.
- Mulder N. (2017), Postkoloniaal verzet 2.0, ICA - Instituut Culturele Antropologie 2017(2): 9-11.
- Mulder N. (25 September 2017), Ipsa scientia potestas est. Leiden Anthropology Blog. [blog entry].
- Mulder N. (2016), Encounters with State Power: Methodological and Ethical Reflections, LOVA: Tijdschrift voor feministische antropologie 37: 65-70.
- Mijnals D. & Mulder N. (2016), George Struikelblok: The Struggle to Success. Paramaribo.