Nicole Ganbold is currently in the last year of her PhD at Utrecht University. She is a member of a NWO-Vici project “The Dutch Global Age” (led by Prof. Thijs Weststeijn) and her research focuses on the visual consequences of the first encounter between the Dutch and the Māori in 1642. Her research interests involve colonial encounters on paper, travel journals, early ethnographic imagery, South Pacific and global approaches to early modern art history.

Additionally, Nicole is the founding member of the PhD Council of the National Research School for Art History (OSK) and a general member of the PhD Council of the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University.