2013 - 2018
Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2009 - 2011
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University

2017
Research fellow, Department of Geography, University of Bonn

2013 - 2017
Research fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne

2011
Researcher fo the Research Group for Microfinance, University of Applied Sciences in Holland, The Hague

• Economic Anthropology
• Globalization
• Migration
• Translocality
• Gender
• East Africa
• Interdisciplinary and/or Applied Research

Book:

Kuiper, Gerda. In press. "Agro-industrial labor in Kenya. Cut flower farms and migrant workers' settlements". New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:

Kuiper, Gerda, and Andreas Gemählich. 2017. Sustainability and depoliticisation: Certifications in the cut-flower industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Africa Spectrum, 52 (3): 31-53.
Kuiper, Gerda. In press. "Conflicted emotions: Learning about uchawi". In: Thomas Stodulka, Samia Dinkelaker and    Ferdiansyah Thajib (eds.) Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork. New York: Springer.
Kuiper, Gerda. "'They just move in with relatives': Translocal labour migrants and transient spaces in Naivasha, Kenya" (under peer review).

Other scientific publications:

Kuiper, Gerda. "Get on a boat: A photographic view from Lake Naivasha". Voices from around the World 2017 (3). http://voices.uni-koeln.de/2017-3
Kuiper, Gerda. "Kenyan flower farms and global notions of 'decent work'" Voices from around the World 2018 (2). http://voices.uni-koeln.de/2018-2