Team

The CHIP team brings a broad range of expertise to the UCU Cultural Heritage Program (CHIP): from the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and Science, in addition to extensive professional networks. Through our research and teaching we prepare UCU students, participating in the CHIP program, to undertake a supervised internship with a host institution. Students not only contribute to the work of heritage institutions, but also gain valuable, first-hand experience; and write an academic paper.

Tijana Zakula (Coordinator) is trained as an Art Historian and has a PhD from Utrecht University. She is specialized in Dutch seventeenth-century art with a particular emphasis on painting and art theory. She has conducted research into painters born between 1600 and 1625 for the second volume of the Rijksmuseum Collection Catalogue and has published articles on Gerard de Lairesse.

Lora Sariaslan is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art. Her focus is on modern and contemporary transnational art practices, curating, identity politics, migration, and mapping the urban. She received her B.A. in Art History from Knox College, Illinois, M.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. In addition to being an academic, she has been a curator in different institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (2001-2005) and Istanbul Modern (2005-2011). As an independent curator she has curated exhibitions, among others: Life in the UK/ Balance of Probabilities as part of the 2^nd Asia Triennial Manchester, UK (2011), the 2^nd Mardin Biennial: Double Take in Mardin, Turkey (2012), This yearning is ours! at the Center of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland (2016), and Uncharted at Kunsthall 3,14 in Bergen, Norway (2023).