Starting in 2016, the Faculty has awarded 35 Finishing Fellowships, resulting in 23 new doctors. This year the selection committee -consisting of Kees Hengeveld, Guido Snel, and Kati Röttger - received 12 applications in total. Eight of these were awarded the Finishing Fellowship:
- Argyrios Emmanouloudis, Is the Game Already Over? FanMade Content and Resistance in Online Video Game Communities (Supervisors: Joyce Goggin and Carrol Clarkson)
- Barbara Cueto, White Papers on Dissent: Politics & Poetics of Decentralisation (Supervisors: Emilie Sitzia and Mia LermHayes)
- Divya Nadkarni, The Lyric We: A Pragmatist Approach to the Politics of Poetry (Supervisors: Ellen Rutten and Josef Früchtl)
- George Muishout, Muslims and palliative care in a Western context: a qualitative study (Supervisors: Gerard Wiegers and Hanneke van Laarhoven)
- Karin Christof, The Longing for Autonomy: New Meanings of Ownership, Property and Citizenship (Supervisors: René Boomkens and Jan Willem Duyvendak)
- Lora Sariaslan, Art as Maps, Maps as Art: Rethinking the Urban in European-Turkish Contemporary Art (Supervisors: Luiza Bialasiewicz and Guido Snel)
- Maral Mohsenin, Digitizing Film Archives: Digital Image Technologies through Archival Discourses and Practices (Supervisors: Giovanna Fossati and Benoît Turquety)
- Ricarda Franzen, Theatre Sound Cultures. Listening practices and the aesthetics of theatre sound documentation in the Netherlands in the late 1960’s/ early 1970’s (Supervisors: Kati Röttger and Viktoria Tkaczyk).