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  • Presentation & Conversation NIAS Book Series Doing Ethnography
    Event 11 February 2026

    Doing Ethnography - by Annelies Moors

    Institutional Surveillance and the Struggle for Epistemic Diversity

  • Group photo fellows 2025–2026
    News

    NIAS welcomes fellows for 2025–2026

    The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) is proud to welcome its new cohort of fellows for the 2025–2026 academic year. Coming from more than 15 countries and spanning a wide spectrum of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts, the new fellows bring with them a wealth of perspectives—as well as the complex political and social realities of the world they come from.

    • Portrait of Dimitri Tokmetzis
      Fellow

      Dimitri Tokmetzis

    • Portrait of Yuliya Krylova-Grek
      Fellow

      Yuliya Krylova-Grek

    • Portrait of Andrii Pastushenko
      Fellow

      Andrii Pastushenko

    • Portrait of Hisham S. M. Zaqout by Hamdan El Dahdouh
      Fellow

      Hisham S. M. Zaqout

    • Portrait of Catarina Dutilh Novaes by Patrick Siemons
      Fellow

      Catarina Dutilh Novaes

    • Rita Baroud
      Fellow

      Rita Baroud

    • Portrait of Hayal Akarsu
      Fellow

      Hayal Akarsu

    • Black and white portrait of Katerina Manevska
      Fellow

      Katerina Manevska

    • Portrait of Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
      Fellow

      Areej Sabbagh-Khoury

    • Portrait of Cecilia Hendrikx by Almicheal Fraay
      Fellow

      Cecilia Hendrikx

    • Portrait of Hilde Bras
      Fellow

      Hilde Bras

    • Black and white photo of Marjolijn van Heemstra by Sophie Hemels
      Fellow

      Marjolijn van Heemstra

    • Portrait of Romy van Baarsen
      Fellow

      Romy van Baarsen

    • Portrait of Michael Levin
      Fellow

      Michael Levin

    • Portrait of Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani
      Fellow

      Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani

    • Portrait of Susan Holland-Muter
      Fellow

      Susan Holland-Muter

    • Portrait of Paul Vinod Khiatani by Sir Edward Youde Scholars Association
      Fellow

      Paul Vinod Khiatani

    • Portrait of HazemAbu -Orf
      Fellow

      Hazem Abu-Orf

    • Portrait of Zehra Ömeroğlu by Çağrı Sertel
      Fellow

      Zehra Ömeroğlu

    • Portrait of Ugo Petronin
      Fellow

      Ugo Petronin