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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
  • prof. dr. Sven Dupré

    Professor
    Vice Dean
    Dean
  • 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
  • prof. dr. Michael Kwakkelstein

    Professor
    Research Institute Director
  • 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 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
  • 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

  • dr. Sarah Adams

    Assistant Professor
  • 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
  • dr. Nina Geerdink

    Assistant Professor
  • Authorship, Patronage, Social Poetry, Women's Writing, Seventeenth-Century Dutch Literature
  • dr. Andrea van Leerdam

    Curator
    Information / Collection Specialist
  • History of the Book, Late Middle Ages, Medieval Iconography, Middle Dutch Literature, Early Modern Literature and Culture, History of Art and Science
  • dr. T.A.J. (Tycho) Maas

    Assistant Professor
  • 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
  • dr. Jeroen Salman

    Associate Professor
  • 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

History

  • dr. Lars Behrisch

    Associate Professor
  • 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
  • dr. Bram van Besouw

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Lecturer
  • Economic history, Financial History, Organisation and Functioning of Markets, Institutions, Long Term, Early Modern History, Modern History
  • dr. Richard Calis

    Assistant Professor
  • 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
  • dr. Bart Jaski

    Information / Collection Specialist
    Curator
  • dr. Rogier van Kooten

    Policy Adviser
    Research Coordinator
  • Urban History, Disaster Studies, Social History, Economic history, Brabantine History, Social Networks, Spatial Analysis, Network Analysis
  • dr. David Onnekink

    Lecturer
    Associate Professor
    Researcher
  • prof. dr. Maarten Prak

    Emeritus Professor
  • Citizenship, Economic history, Guilds, Poldermodel, Urban History
  • Political History, History of Political Thought, Social History, Middle East, Ottoman Empire, Islam and Shiism, Manuscripts, Arabic
  • Femke Valkhoff

    PhD Candidate
  • Feminist Art History, Early Modern Cultural History, Intellectual History and Early Modern Europe, Dutch History
  • dr. Devin Vartija

    Assistant Professor
  • Cultural History, History of Political Thought, Enlightenment, Inequality, Race and Racism, Intellectual History, French Revolution
  • dr. Renée Vulto

    Assistant Professor
  • 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

Musicology

  • dr. Rebekah Ahrendt

    Associate Professor
  • 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
  • dr. Annelies Andries

    Assistant Professor
  • 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
  • Clare Beesley

    External PhD candidate
  • dr. Eric Jas

    Assistant Professor
  • Music of the Renaissance, Music Theory

Philosophy

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