ANNIKA VAN BAAR
Business and Human Rights Expert with an academic background in criminology, psychology and history.
Available for academic and non-academic projects
ABOUT
I am a criminologist and business and human rights researcher. I am driven by a desire to understand complex, organizational forms of crimes and harms, their impacts and how society and institutions seek to control these global and multifaceted phenomena. In particular, I am interested in the harmful outcomes of corporate activities in the areas of human rights abuses, atrocity crimes, environmental harms and corruption. My research is interdisciplinary, combines qualitative and quantitative methods and takes a multi-level approach, considering institutional, organizational and inter-personal aspects of crime and harmful outcomes.
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RECENT ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM
2020 - now
I teach on Corporate Involvement in International Crimes, Political Violence, Statistics, and Research Methods. Research includes commissioned projects for not-for-profit societal actors such as the American Bar Association and Fairtrade International.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, GRONINGEN UNIVERSITY
2019 - 2020
Teaching on Research Methodology and International Relations.
POST-DOC RESEARCHER, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
2017 - 2019
Post-doc researcher at the Resilient Rule of Law (Resilient Societies) project of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. In an interdisciplinary team with law, economics, and governance scholars, I researched the role and reality of reputational damage after corporate human rights violations.
PHD CANDIDATE, VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM
2012 - 2018
PhD Candidate in Criminology, at the Faculty of Law of VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Thesis: Corporate involvement in international crimes in Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa and the DRC.
Supervised by: Prof. dr. mr. Wim Huisman and Prof. dr. Willem de Haan
QUALIFICATIONS
2012 - 2018
DOCTORATE (PHD) IN CRIMINOLOGY
Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam
2009 - 2011
MSC INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND CRIMINOLOGY (CUM LAUDE)
Faculty of Law, VU University Amsterdam
2008 - 2010
MA HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES
Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam
2003-2007
BSC CRIMINOLOGY & BSC PSYCHOLOGY
Faculty of Law & Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy, VU University Amsterdam
"Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without criticism is naivete"