Nikkie Wiegink is working at the Department of Cultural Anthropology as associate professor. Her most recent research project focuses on corporate sovereignty, frontier governance, resource extraction, and displacement, for which she conducted research in Mozambique. She also participates in Horizon2020 PITCH projects, focused on heritage and gas extraction in Groningen, the Netherlands. 

She is the author of the book Former Guerrillas in Mozambique (University of Pennsylvania Press), based on ethnographic fieldwork among former Renamo combatants. She has published on (former) armed group dynamics, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, war veterans, witchcraft, and citizenship. 

Previously she worked as a consultant on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration and small arms control in Sudan for the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) (2014-2015).

Interests (in alphabethical order)

Anthropology, armed groups, corporate power, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of combatants, displacement, energy, industrial heritage, infrastructure, Mozambique, resource extraction, sovereignty, sustainability, war and post war dynamics.