Karen Hollewand is currently a postdoc in the Skillnet project at the Faculty of History of the University of Utrecht. She completed her PhD thesis, on the banishment of humanist Hadriaan Beverland in the year 1679, at the University of Oxford and she is working on a translation of Beverland's main work De Peccato Originali together with dr Floris Verhaart. Her research concentrates on the social, intellectual, and cultural history of early modern Europe, with a particular focus on sex and science and the Republic of Letters.

Karen teaches different courses in Early Modern History at the University of Groningen.