Eva van Roekel

Eva van Roekel is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She holds additional appointments at the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and Mobilities, Beliefs and Belonging (MOBB). Her work combines fieldwork, creative writing, and visual anthropology with a focus on Latin America, particularly Venezuela and Argentina.

Education: BSc (2006) and MSc (2007) in Latin American Studies from Utrecht University. PhD (2016) in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University, focusing on trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina.

Research interests include violence, morality, human rights, and natural resource conflicts. Notable projects include research on the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis (funded by NWO Veni Grant) and creative ethnography through the Anthropology and Humanism journal. Awards include the 2020 Outstanding Academic Title and multiple grants from ISRF and NWO.

Teaching involves courses on visual anthropology and creative methodologies. She co-developed the VU minor Visual Evidence, training students in documentary filmmaking. Active in public anthropology through media contributions and advisory roles at CEDLA and the Creative Anthropologies Network.

Key grants include the Independent Social Research Foundation fellowship (2020) and Veni Grant (2022). Her research bridges moral philosophy with crisis ethnography, examining how economic collapse and environmental degradation shape ethical frameworks in Latin America.