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CV Marieke Heemskerk

Personalia

Address: Rotterdamsestraat 21

The Hague

Netherlands

Ph: +31 6 16123226

E-mail: mheemskerk@yahoo.com

Education

University	Subject	Degree obtained	Year
University of Utrecht, NL	History, minor Latin Americn Studies	Masters	1995
University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl.	Anthropology, sp. Tropical Conservation and Development	PhD	2000

Employment

Date	Institution	Position
2003-present	Social Solutions	Director, consultant
2019-2023	Artisanal Gold Council	Suriname project manager
2011-2015	GOMIAM research project/CEDLA	Country coordinator and researcher for the project “Small-scale gold mining and social conflict in the Amazon”
2005-2009	Amazon Conservation Team Suriname	Culture and Education Program Coordinator
2000-2003	Department of Rural Sociology, University of Wisconsin, USA	Postdoctoral Research Associate, Coordinator graduate studies program on socio-aquatic systems
1996-1997	Department of Anthropology, University of Florida	Research assistant
1996	Department of Anthropology, University of Florida	Teaching Assistant

Training certificates

First Aid incl. Reanimation. Dutch orange Cross. November 2024-January 2025.
Short Course for Artisanal Gold Mining Sector Trainers, Artisanal Gold Council/US Department of State, 2020
“Mercury effects in human health and the environment and considerations under the Minamata Convention on Mercury”, PAHO/WHO, 2019
“Impact Assessment and Decision Making”; International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) and National Institute for Environment and Development Suriname (NIMOS), 2014
“Population and Demographics”, University of Ann Harbor, Michigan (USA), 1999
“Agro-ecology”, Organization for Tropical Studies/University of Costa Rica, 1997
“GIS map making and GPS operation”, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001

Consulting experience

For specifics about the assignments I worked on in different topic areas, please click one of the links below.

Service

ESIA Projects

Mining - ASM and general

Indigenous Peoples and Maroons

Education

Public health / Sexual health

Other

Volunteer beach guard in Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands. 
Volunteer Dutch language teacher for underage refugees traveling without parents (AMAs) in the Netherlands, The Hague. Foundation Vluchtelingenkind. September 2023-present.
Reviewer for various journals, including Conservation Ecology, Ecological Anthropology, Natural Resources Forum, and Environmental Management
Supervision and training of students from the US, Suriname, and France in anthropological fieldwork
Serving as an academic advisor on various PhD, Masters and Bachelors committees, among others for Brandeis University (2005), the University of Florida (2007), the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam (2007, 2008), the University of Utrecht (2008-9), and the Anton de Kom University of Paramaribo (2008-current).

Publications, only in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters

Vreden, S., Heemskerk, M., Hiwat, H., & Cairo, H. (2024). Acceptability and feasibility of the provision of COVID-19 services by community health workers to remote gold mining communities in Suriname. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.23-0734
Heemskerk, M., Le Tourneau, F. M., Hiwat, H., Cairo, H., & Pratley, P. (2022). In a life full of risks, COVID-19 makes little difference: Responses to COVID-19 among mobile migrants in gold mining areas in Suriname and French Guiana. Social Science & Medicine, 296, 114747. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.114747
Schaub, R., Ottevanger, M. S. M. D., Harkisoen, S., Pesna, B., Duijves, C., Heemskerk, M., Polime, T., Tuaillon, E., Vreden, S., & Nacher, M. (2023). Involving hard-to-reach populations is pivotal for the tailoring and implementation of an epidemiological study in cross-border communities of French Guiana and Suriname. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1162705. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1162705
Heemskerk, M., Duijves, C., & Pinas, M. (2014). Interpersonal and Institutional Distrust as Disabling Factors in Natural Resources Management: Small-Scale Gold Miners and the Government in Suriname. Society & Natural Resources, 28(2), 133–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2014.929769.
Heemskerk, M., & Duijves, C. (2013). Sekswerk in de Surinaamse goudvelden: De mythes ontrafeld. OSO.
Heemskerk, M., & Duijves, C. (2013). Small-scale gold mining and conflict in Suriname. In L. Cremers, J. Kolen, & M. de Theije (Eds.), Small-scale gold mining in the Amazon: The cases of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru and Suriname (pp. 85-101). Cuadernos del CEDLA.
Heemskerk, M. (2013). Book review: “Een zwarte vrijstaat in Suriname: De Okaanse samenleving in de achttiende eeuw” by H. U. E. Thoden van Velzen & Wim Hoogbergen. NWIG, 87(1), 257-259.
De Theije, M., & Heemskerk, M. (2011). Groot en klein goud in Suriname: De informalisering en ordening van de goudwinning. Justitiële Verkenningen, 37(3), 45-58.
Heemskerk, M., & de Theije, M. (2010). Transforming land tenure systems in the quest for gold: Aluku, Wayana, and the state in the Suriname-French Guiana border area. In E. B. Visigalli & A. Roosevelt (Eds.), L'acte de colloque Amaz'hommes (pp. 353-365). Ibis Rouge.
De Theije, M., & Heemskerk, M. (2009). Moving frontiers in the Amazon: Brazilian small-scale gold miners in Suriname. Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe/European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, (87), 1-23.
de Theije, M., & Heemskerk, M. (2009). Goudwinning als motor voor de hedendaagse Marronsamenleving. In A. Stipriaan & T. Polimé (Eds.), Maroons in the Americas: Heroic pasts, ambiguous presents, uncertain futures (pp. 45-58). Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen.
Heemskerk, M., et al. (2005). Collecting data in artisanal mining communities: Measuring progress towards more sustainable livelihoods. Natural Resources Forum, 29, 82-87.
Heemskerk, M., Norton, A., & De Dehn, L. (2004). Does public welfare crowd out informal safety nets? Ethnographic evidence from rural Latin America. World Development, 32, 941-955.
Peterson, G. D., Heemskerk, M., Barnett, G., Bennett, E. M., Blann, K., Beard Jr., T. D., Hahn, T., Oren, Y., Raufflet, E. B., & Tengö, M. (2004). Innovation in regional social-ecological systems: Indicators for the comparison of case studies. Ecosystems.
Heemskerk, M., & van der Kooye, R. (2003). Social, economic, and political dimensions of small-scale gold mining in Suriname. In G. M. Hilson (Ed.), The socio-economic impact of small-scale mining in developing countries: An update.
Heemskerk, M. (2003). Risk attitudes and mitigation among gold miners and others in the Suriname rainforest. Natural Resources Forum, 27(4), 267-278.
Heemskerk, M. (2003). Scenarios in anthropology: Reflections on possible futures of the Suriname Maroons. Futures. Special issue: Futures of Indigenous Peoples, 35(9): 931-949. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0016-3287(03)00050-8
Heemskerk, M., Wilson, K., & Pavao-Zuckerman, M. (2003). Modeling for communication across disciplines. Conservation Ecology, 7(3). Special issue: Human Ecosystems: Towards the integration of anthropology and ecosystem sciences. http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss3/
Heemskerk, M. (2003). Self-Employment and Poverty Alleviation: Women’s Work in Artisanal Gold Mines. Human Organization, 62(1), 62–73. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.62.1.5pv74nj41xldexd8 -73.
Heemskerk, M. (2002). Livelihood Decision Making and Environmental Degradation: Small-Scale Gold Mining in the Suriname Amazon. Society & Natural Resources, 15(4), 327–344. https://doi.org/10.1080/089419202753570819.
Heemskerk, M. (2001). Ndyuka update. Cultural Survival Quarterly, 25(2). Special issue: Maroons in the Americas: Heroic pasts, ambiguous presents, uncertain futures.
Peterson GD, Heemskerk M. Deforestation and forest regeneration following small-scale gold mining in the Amazon: the case of Suriname. Environmental Conservation. 2001;28(2):117-126. doi:10.1017/S0376892901000121
Heemskerk, M. (2001). Maroon gold miners and mining risks in the Suriname Amazon. Cultural Survival Quarterly, 25(1). Special issue: "Mining Indigenous Lands: Can impacts and benefits be reconciled?", 25-29.
Heemskerk, M. (2000). Gender and gold mining: The case of the Maroons of Suriname. Working Papers on Women in International Development, 269. A. Ferguson (Ed.). Ann Arbor: Michigan State University.

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