Lieke van der Veer has a multidisciplinary academic background in Social Sciences and Humanities. Her doctoral thesis in Anthropology is a monograph entitled 'Care in a Frictional Field of Forces: Assistance and Advocacy by and for Recent Refugees in Rotterdam.' Earlier, she obtained a first-class honours BA in Philosophy, received a distinction grade for her MA thesis in Philosophy of Science, and graduated with an MSc in Conflict Resolution and Governance, all at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2014, she has done research in the field of migration governance. She was awarded a grant for a visiting scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh (US) in 2019. Her research interests include ethnography, classification practices, social reproduction, and material semiotics. Lieke now works at the Erasmus University Rotterdam as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the NWA-funded research project 'Dilemmas of Doing Diversity.'
