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Art History
dr. Martijn van Beek
Assistant Professor- History of Architecture , Art History, Sustainable Urban Development, Environmental Humanities, Visual and Material Culture, Conservation of Monuments and Historic Buildings, History of Art and Science
dr. Marjolijn Bol
Associate Professor- Technical Art History, Visual Art Before 1850
dr. L. (Lia) Costiner
Assistant Professor- History of Art and Science, Technical Art History, Conservation
dr. Thijs Hagendijk
Assistant Professor- Technical Art History, Environmental Humanities, Visual and Material Culture
dr. Matthijs Jonker
Assistant Professor- History of Art and Science, Academisation of art, Transcultural art of colonial Mexico, Visual Art before 1850, Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Visual Culture, Globalisation, Art Theory, History of the History of Art, Philosophy of Science
- Anatomical Drawings of Rubens, Visual Art before 1850, Influence of Classical Art on Renaissance Art, Italian Renaissance Drawing, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Relation between Art Theory and the Painter's Practice
dr. Bram van Leuveren
Assistant Professor- Art History, Visual Art before 1850, Early Modern Cultural History, History of International Relations, Comparative Early Modern Political History, Postcolonial Studies, Archival Research
dr. Daantje Meuwissen
Assistant Professorprof. dr. Koen Ottenheym
Professor- History of Architecture , Conservation of Monuments and Historic Buildings
dr. Laura Overpelt
Assistant Professor- Visual Art before 1850, Social-Economic Art History, History of the History of Art, Historiography, Art and Culture of the Italian Renaissance, Art Theory
prof. dr. Thijs Weststeijn
Professor- Visual Art before 1850, Golden Age, Globalisation, China and Europe, Antiquarianism, Art Theory, Relation between Art Theory and the Painter's Practice, History of the History of Art, History of humanities, History of Art and Science, Early Modern Cultural History, Heritage Studies, Cultural Heritage
Dutch Literary Studies
- Postcolonial Criticism, Modern Dutch Literature, Popular Culture, Culture and Identity, Colonial History
- Computational Humanities, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Natural Language Processing, Cultural History, Digital Humanities, Data Mining
- Authorship, Patronage, Social Poetry, Women's Writing, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Literature
- History of the Book, Late Middle Ages, Medieval Iconography, Middle Dutch Literature, Early Modern Literature and Culture, History of Art and Science
- Early Modern Literature and Culture, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Literature, Latin Language and Literature, Africa, Colonial History, Culture and Identity, Epistemology, Postcolonial Criticism, Dutch as a Second Language, Literary Translation
- History of the Book, Children's Literature, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Relation between Literature and Science, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Cultural History
- Digital Humanities
- Cultural Identity, Manuscripts and Early Prints, Middle Ages, Middle Dutch Language and Culture in European Perspective, Freedom of Speech
- Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Early Modern Cultural History, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe
European Literary Studies
- Early Modern French Literature, Renaissance Literature, History of the Book
- Culture and Identity, Renaissance Culture, Heritage and Tourism, Italian Culture, Literature and Memory

- Celtic Languages and Culture, Medieval Manuscripts, Medieval Literature, Language and Translation in the Middle Ages
- Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare, European Identity, Early Modern Cultural History
- French Culture and Literature, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Late Middle Ages, History of the Book, Multilingualism, Literary Translation
History
- Democracy, Parliamentary and Alternative Forms of Democracy, Revolutions, History of political participation, Comparative Early Modern Political History, German and French History in the Early Modern Period, Statistical Knowledge and its Uses, Historical Sociology, History of Identities, Social Control, Religious Pluralism, The Reformation, State and Church in Russia, Urban History, Crime, Criminal Law
- Economic history, Financial History, Organisation and Functioning of Markets, Institutions, Long Term, Early Modern History, Modern History
- Ottoman Empire, Early Modern Europe (France-Italy), Greece, Italy, History of Science, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, Intellectual History, Cultural History
- Intellectual History, Political History
- Early Modern History, Social History, Urban History, Economic history, Food History
- Urban History, Disaster Studies, Social History, Economic history, Brabantine History, Social Networks, Spatial Analysis, Network Analysis
- Citizenship, Economic history, Guilds, Poldermodel, Urban History
- Political History, History of Political Thought, Social History, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Islam and Shiism, Manuscripts, Arabic
- Feminist Art History, Early Modern Cultural History, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, Dutch History
- Cultural History, History of Political Thought, Enlightenment, Inequality, Race and Racism, Intellectual History, French Revolution
- Cultural Heritage, Song Culture, Music and Postcolonial Theory, Emotion, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Musicology, Music Historiography, Literary History, Early Modern Cultural History
- Intellectual History, History of Political Thought, Democracy and Citizenship, Colonial History, Italian History, Mediterranean Sea, Latin America
- Poverty, Biodiversity, Sustainability, Economic history, Global scale, Great Societal Debates, Economic Growth and Development, Inequality, Interdisciplinarity, International Collaboration, Long-Term Trajectories, Quantitative Datasets
History of Science
- Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, Knowledge Networks , Cultural History, Early Modern Cultural History, History and Theory, Latin Language and Literature
- History and Philosophy of Science
Musicology
- Opera Librettos, Baroque Music and Culture, Early Modern Cultural History, History of International Relations, Music Historiography, Music and (Cold War) Politics and Diplomacy, Musicology, Paleography, Archives, History of Music Theory and Musicology, Music and Material Culture, Music, Diplomacy
- Musicology, Music Historiography, Opera, Cultural History of the 19th Century, Music and Media, History of Music Theory and Musicology, Practice-Based Research, Political History 19th / 20th Century
- Music of the Renaissance, Music Theory
Philosophy
- Philosophy, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, History of Political Thought
- Immanuel Kant, German Idealism, History of Science, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Creative Humanities, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Analytical Philosophy, History of humanities, Philosophy of Nature, History of Psychology
Religious Studies
PhD Candidates
- Computational Humanities, Early Modern Literature and Culture, Natural Language Processing, Cultural History, Digital Humanities, Data Mining
- Feminist Art History, Early Modern Cultural History, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, Dutch History