Grants (since 2000):

2024-2025: Unpacking a colonial missionary collection: Tracking the provenance and shifts in the meanings, values and uses of legbawo, dzokawo and other items assembled by the missionary Carl Spiess among the Ewe on behalf of the Städtisches Museum für Natur-, Völker- und Handelskunde Bremen (around 1900), Co-applicant with Übersee-Museum Bremen, Kodzo Gavua and Kokou Azamede, Funded by Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste, 385.000 €.

2021-2025: Heritage and the Question of Conversion. Wp3b (with Peter Pels) in Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums. NWA (National Science Agenda), NWO.

2016-2024:  Religious Matters in an Entangled World (www.religiousmatters.nl), set up with funds Academy professor prize (1,5 €) and Spinoza Prize (2,5 €).

2013-2016: Iconic Religion. How Imaginaries of Religious Encounter Structure Urban Space (ICOREL), with Prof Volkhard Krech, Bochum (PL) and Prof Kim Knott (Lancaster); BM is the PI for the Dutch sub-project, 1 postdoc. Ca € 240.000.

2013-2016: Currents of faith, places of history: religious diasporas, connections, moral circumscriptions and world-making in the Atlantic space, (CURRENTS), with Dr Ramon Sarro, Lisbon/Bergen (PL), Dr David Berliner, Brussels, and Dr Ramon Sarro (Oxford); BM is the PI for the Dutch sub-project, 2 part-time postdocs. Ca € 275.000.

2012-2017: Habitus and Habitats. Politics and Aesthetics of Religious World-Making. Project hosted by the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, in collaboration with the Department of Religious Studies and Theology, Utrecht University. (€ 250.000, in the framework of the Anneliese-Maier-Forschungspreis, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung).

2010-2013: Cultural performance, belonging and citizenship in contemporary South Africa Sanpad project 10-13, BM is the “Dutch partner,” in colaboration with Dr Heike Becker, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

2010-2013: Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement (CIM), with Dr Maruska Svasek (Belfast, Project leader, BM is the PI for the NL-subproject), ca € 180.000 [2 part-time postdocs].  

2008-2013 Research grant (principal investigator) by NWO for the research program ‘Heritage Dynamics: Politics of Authentication and Aesthetics of Persuasion in Brazil, Ghana, South Africa and the Netherlands’ [3 Phd students, 1 postdoc, total: 550.000€]

2000-2006 ‘PIONIER’ research grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for the research program ‘Modern Mass Media, Religion and the Imagination of Communities. Different Postcolonial Trajectories in West Africa, Brazil, India and the Caribbean’, website: www.pscw.uva.nl/media-religion  [involving 4 PhD and 4 postdoc projects, total: 1.1 Mill € (2.4 Mill Guldens)]

[plus several grants for PhD-students, postdocs, and three Marie Curie Grants]