Staff members with discipline Anthropology
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.


My research projects include research on Christianity and Pentecostalism, secularity, ethics, NGOs and faith based organisations, health and prevention, youth care, education and foster care, international development, gender based violence, female leadership, women's agency and empowerment, sexuality education and sexual health programming, polarization and sexual nationalism.
I apply qualitative research methods, and have a particular interest in ethnographic and participatory research and creative (art-based) methodologies.
I have conducted research in and on The Netherlands and broader Western Europe, and in Sub Sahara Africa: Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and South Africa
My work is always situated on the intersections of science and society and I have ample experience with knowledge valorisation, societal impact and applied research. In this I have a particular interest in how sound academic knowledge can empower and support marginalized people and communities.
Students who want to write their thesis on one of the themes mentioned above in relation to religion/ secularity and are interested in applying qualitative research methods may contact me.


theory and history of anthropology; anthropology of religion; indigenous religions; in relation to the aforementioned areas mainly the following topics: values, cosmology, ritual, food, death, cultural and religious change, Indian tribal (Adivasi) cultures, anthropology of India








linguistics (agglutinative morphology, subtractive disfixation, Amazonian/Andean languages, minoritized languages)
cognition (sensory perception, semiotics, phenomenology, soundscapes)








Dr Flávio Eiró (he/him) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts (Minorities & Multilingualism), University of Groningen. He is also Director of Studies of the University Minor Development Studies.
Since 2012, he has conducted ethnographic research on electoral politics and conditional cash transfers in Northeast Brazil. Flávio has published widely on issues surrounding politics, poverty and anti-poverty policies, policy implementation, and climate change adaptation, with a special focus on Brazil.
Flávio teaches and researches issues related to politics of diversity and minorities, with a focus on race and racism.






Anthropology
Social Impact Assessment
Environment, Social and Governance
International Development
Ethnography
Indigenous Ethnology
Project Management
























Schrijvers, L. L., & Wiering, J. (2018). Religious/secular discourses and practices of good sex. Culture and Religion , 1-21.
Wiering, J. (2017). There is a Sexular Body: Introducing a Material Approach to the Secular. Secularism and Nonreligion, 6 (8). http://doi.org/10.5334/snr.78
Wiering, J. (2016). “Others Think I am Airy-fairy”: Practicing Navayana Buddhism in a Dutch Secular Climate. Contemporary Buddhism, 17(2), 369-389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2016.1234751

