Teaching staff

  • Dr Alison Boyd (Programme Coordinator)

    Alison Boyd is an Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art. She studies the intersection of multiple modernities in American and European art with a focus on the arts of the African diaspora and the politics of museum display. 

  • Prof. Thijs Weststeijn

    Thijs Weststeijn studies early modern art in a broad cultural context. His special interest is the global connections that shaped early modern Netherlandish art as well as the opportunities that non-Western works provide to look back at the Netherlands. He chairs the research project 'The Chinese Impact: Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age. 

  • Prof. Eva-Maria Troelenberg

    Eva-Maria Troelenberg is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History. She directs the research group "Objects in the Contact Zone – The Cross-Cultural Lives of Things" at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. Her main fields of interest include the historiography and artistic perception of Islamic Arts, the history and critique of Orientalism and Primitivism in modern art, arts of the modern Mediterranean, as well as transcultural museum history.

  • Prof. Sven Dupré

    Sven Dupré is Professor and Chair of History of Art, Science and Technology. His research focuses on the production and consumption of art and its embedding in the history of knowledge. He is leader of the ERC project Technique in the Arts: Concepts, Practices, Expertise, 1500-1950.

  • Dr Victor M. Schmidt

    Victor M. Schmidt is Associate Professor in Art History and Coordinator of the programme. He is a specialist in the art and art theory of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and regularly collaborates with national and international museums.

  • Dr Sarah Moran

    Sarah Moran's research interests center on cultural production in the Counter-Reformation Southern Low Countries, with foci on women’s patronage, material culture, religious art and architecture, public performance, authorship, and image theory. She is especially interested in questions of historical methodology and in the potential of interdisciplinarity to open up new areas of research.

  • Prof. Michael Kwakkelstein

    Michael W. Kwakkelstein is Professor in Visual Arts and Theory of Art of the Renaissance in Italy and director of the NIKI in Florence. His research is focused on the relation between art theory and artistic practice, with particular emphasis on Leonardo da Vinci. He is regularly involved in the curation of exhibitions.

  • Prof. Chris Stolwijk

    Chris Stolwijk is Professor of Dutch art history in an international context, 1800-1940, and director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History in The Hague. His core interests are Vincent van Gogh, the history of art history, the history of art collecting and trade, museification, and digital art history.