Tim van de Meerendonk

Dr. Tim van de Meerendonk is a Lecturer at Leiden University's Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He holds a PhD in anthropology, completed in March 2024, focusing on agricultural insurance and moralities of quantification in Maharashtra, India. His research explores how insurance schemes interact with rural communities' experiences of crisis, quantification, and socio-economic challenges.

Education: PhD in Cultural Anthropology (Leiden University, 2024), prior role as Asylum Determination Officer at Dutch Immigration Services (IND).

Research interests include agricultural crises, insurance ethics, climate risk, and the socio-moral dimensions of quantification. He teaches courses like Anthropological Research in Practice and supervises bachelor theses in Diversity and Power tracks.

Publications include seminal works on Indian agricultural insurance and crisis narratives. His 2024 doctoral thesis examines the PMFBY insurance scheme's socio-cultural impacts. Active in academic networks such as Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN).