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Tanja Hendriks is a Research Fellow at KU Leuven's Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, with affiliated fellowships at the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Centre for Social Research at the University of Malawi. She holds a BA in Anthropology (University of Amsterdam, 2012), an MSc in International Development Studies (2015, UvA), and an MA in African Studies (Leiden University, 2016). Her work focuses on state anthropology, bureaucracy, disaster governance, and development, with a regional focus on Malawi.
Research Projects:
- FWO-funded 'Duty and Diligence in Disasters' (2022–2025): Investigates Malawian civil servants' sense of duty amid climate crises.
- PhD thesis (2022): Explored civil servants' roles in disaster relief in Malawi, emphasizing their ethical and institutional challenges.
Key Themes: Ethnography of bureaucracy, state-society interactions, climate resilience, and humanitarian-development nexus.
Grants: FWO (Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research).
Research Interests: Extend beyond core topics to humor in governance, intergenerational power dynamics, and the politics of storytelling.
Affiliations: Active in KU Leuven's midweek and departmental seminars, collaborating with institutions across Europe and Africa.
