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Prof. dr. Kees Koonings

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Kees Koonings has been assistant professor from 1987-2000 and associate professor from 2001-2021 in the Department of Anthropology at Utrecht University. In 2021 he has been appointed Professor of Anthropology of Development and Conflict in the same department. He has been teaching on subjects related to Latin American studies (especially social movements, citizenship, political change and modernity), development studies (especially development theory, poverty and social exclusion), and the anthropology of violence and conflict. Since March 2011 he holds a partime special chair 'Brazilian Studies' at CEDLA/University of Amsterdam. From 2016-2021 he has been Head of Department of Anthropology at Utrecht University.

RESEARCH INTEREST

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Latin American studies (especially Brazil, Colombia/the Andean region, Central   America); development theory; poverty and social exclusion; citizenship and social mobilisation; democratisation; militarism; conflict, violence and social reconstruction; ethnicity and social identity.

Since the 1980s he has been conducting research in various Latin American countries on themes such as regional development, ethnicity, social exclusion, social movements and democratisation. Currently he is working on two books: one on citizenship and social mobilisation in democratic Brazil; another on conflict and peace efforts in Colombia. He has received research grants from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and has been a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Wassenaar (1998/1999), the interuniversitary Center for Study and Documentation of Latin America (CEDLA) in Amsterdam (2000), and the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) in Rio de Janeiro (2009). He sat on the board of the Netherlands Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (NALACS). He has been a frequent advisor to Dutch governmental, non-governmental and international policy agencies in the field of international co-operation. He has been member of a number of advisory bodies, among which the Advisory Council of the Latin American Film Festival (LAFF). 

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