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Staff members with discipline Art

Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.

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Paleografische kennis van het Nederlands en Duits op wetenschappelijk niveau. Combinatie van doctoraal kunstgeschiedenis, archivistiek op wetenschappelijk niveau en kunstonderwijs op HBO-niveau.
A.M. (Annelies) Abelmann
Contact
a.m.abelmann rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
Julia Alting is a PhD candidate at the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG), where she researches nonlinear approaches to art historical time. Her research and writing have appeared in publications like Metropolis M, Rekto/Verso, ... read more
J. (Julia) Alting, MA
Contact
j.alting rug.nl
Function
PhD Candidate
Vanessa Bakhuizen-van 't Hoogt is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research is part of the NWO-project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education and focuses on the way in which making is learned and... read more
V.S. (Vanessa) Bakhuizen-van 't Hoogt, MA
Contact
v.van.t.hoogt rug.nl
Function
PhD candidate
E-library
drs. A. (Alie) Bijker
Contact
a.bijker rug.nl
+31 50 36 35021
Function
Senior License manager
Field / Discipline
Film, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Reception Studies
J. (Jakob) Boer, MA
Contact
j.boer rug.nl
+31 6 3743 3369
Function
Post-doctoral Researcher Film Studies
cultural diplomacy, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural leadership
D.Z. (Djamila) Boulil, MA
Contact
d.z.boulil rug.nl
Function
Lecturer
C.H.D. (Carmen) van Bruggen
Contact
c.h.d.van.bruggen rug.nl
Function
Field / Discipline
Imka Buurke is a PhD candidate at the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research is part of the NWO project Curious Hands. Moving Making to the Core of Education and focuses on education at the intersection of art, science and technology... read more
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Contact
i.m.buurke rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Arts, cognition and education
dr. T. (Theisje) van Dorsten
Contact
t.van.dorsten rug.nl
+31 50 36 39059
Function
Assistant Professor
My PhD research explores issues of maintenance and care-work through the history of textile repair. Blending archival study on early needlework samplers with auto-ethnographic and participatory action research in conservation laboratories, artists’... read more
L.E. (Ren) Ewart
Contact
l.e.ewart rug.nl
Function
PhD candidate
L.R.O. (Linde) Ex, MA
Contact
l.r.o.ex rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
Arts and Cognition, Empirical Aesthetics, Arts and Gender, Neuroaesthetics, Philosophy of Art. 
H.G. (Héctor) Gallegos González, MA
Contact
h.g.gallegos.gonzalez rug.nl
+31 50 36 36070
Function
PhD student
Julian Hanich is the author of three monographs: The Audience Effect: On the Collective Cinema Experience (Edinburgh UP), Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear (Routledge) and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau:... read more
J. (Julian) Hanich, Prof
Contact
j.hanich rug.nl
Function
Professor of Film Studies
A.R. (Anna-Rosja) Haveman
Contact
a.haveman rug.nl
Function
Field / Discipline
Theory of culture; culture and cognition; arts and cognition; arts  and culture education
prof. dr. B.P. (Barend) van Heusden
Contact
b.p.van.heusden rug.nl
+31 50 36 36018
Function
Professor emeritus
Esther van der Hoorn is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art History and Material Culture. Her research focuses on works of the seventeenth-century Dutch silversmiths, Paulus and Adam van Vianen. 

Esther was previously Junior Curator of Decorative...
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E.F. (Esther) van der Hoorn, MA
Contact
e.f.van.der.hoorn rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
Modern and Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Socially Engaged Art, Feminist Art, Sexually Explicit Art, Erotic Art, Art of Slovenia
N. (Neja) Kaiser, MA
Contact
n.kaiser rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
Art
Narrative and cognitive film theory
Digital Film Forensics / Videographic Criticism 
Complex cinema, puzzle films
dr. M. (Miklós) Kiss
Contact
m.kiss rug.nl
+31 50 36 37269
Function
Associate Professor of Audiovisual Arts and Cognition
Modern and contemporary art, participatory art, socially engaged art, performance art, media art, Dutch art criticism, methods and theories of art history, participatory heritage.
dr. M.F.A. (Annemarie) Kok
Contact
m.f.a.kok rug.nl
Function
Postdoctoral Researcher
Field / Discipline
Art
Organisation and communication in the arts; cultural democracy
dr. J.A.C. (Johan) Kolsteeg
Contact
johan.kolsteeg rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
Field / Discipline
Art
My research develops a process-based approach to art and visual material culture. In particular, I study how materials, tools, and practices partake in the meaning making of art; how images and texts represent and reflect creative practices; and how... read more
A.S. (Ann-Sophie) Lehmann, Prof
Contact
a.s.lehmann rug.nl
Function
Chair of Art History & Material Culture
Field / Discipline
Critical theory, aesthetics, art criticism, philosophy of culture
dr. T.E. (Thijs) Lijster
Contact
t.e.lijster rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor Philosophy of Art and Culture
Field / Discipline
Electronic-Digital Media & Performing Arts < > Icaro is a Colombian sound-media artist, musician and educator, interested in the making of instruments based on digital-electronic infrastructures and their use in performing arts. His practice is centered... read more
I. (Icaro) Lopez de Mesa Moyano, MA
Contact
i.lopez.de.mesa.moyano rug.nl
Function
PhD student
B.T. (Tino) Mager, Dr
Contact
tino.mager rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
Field / Discipline
Art History of China, prediominatly from the sixteenth century onwards; early and modern Chinese history; archaeology and material culture of China/East Asia; early and modern printing systems, including photography in China and Japan; classical... read more
O.J. (Oliver) Moore, Prof
Contact
o.j.moore rug.nl
Function
Chair, Chinese Language & Culture
Field / Discipline
drs. L. (Linda ) Nijenhof
Contact
l.nijenhof rug.nl
Function
Field / Discipline
Art
Dr. Cleo Nisse specializes in early modern art, with a focus on southern Europe, particularly Venice. Her research interests include the history of artistic practice, art and ecology, technical art history, and the intersection between art history and... read more
C.M. (Cleo) Nisse
Contact
c.m.nisse rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor for Early Modern European Art
My research interests include Material Culture and artistic production from a global perspective, with a particular focus on ecological and "post"colonial aspects. I work on artists' books, art and memory, as well as Methods and Historiography of Art... read more
V. (Veronica ) Peselmann, Dr
Contact
v.peselmann rug.nl
503 639 063
Function
Assistant Professor for Modern and Contemporary Art
Medieval and early modern material culture and religion; Otherness, racism and minorities in art; Human mobility and violence in art, Dutch and Spanish colonialism and global art history; Iberian-Asian art exchanges, Dutch-Spanish & Latin American art... read more
J. Rodríguez Viejo, Dr
Contact
j.rodriguez.viejo rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor, History of Art & Material Culture
The cultural history and musealisation of the country house, the castle and the estate
Demolition of historical architecture

For my publications,  see my CV
prof. dr. H. (Hanneke) Ronnes
Contact
h.ronnes rug.nl
Function
Bijzondere leerstoel Historische buitenplaatsen en landgoederen (Stichting Van der Wyck-De Kempenaer)
Field / Discipline
Luuk Schröder is an artist and artistic PhD candidate at the Department of Digital Humanities. He is interested in the ecological repercussions of media technology and its supporting infrastructure on our world. By orchestrating unfamiliar confrontations... read more
L. (Luuk) Schroder, M
Contact
l.schroder rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
Art
Latin American Literature and Art
Gender Studies
Global Modernism
Literary Theory
C.G. (Camilla) Sutherland, Dr
Contact
c.g.sutherland rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor European Culture and Literature: Spanish
Field / Discipline
Merel van Tilburg is an art historian, critic, art educator and curatorial advisor with an ongoing interest in the role of art in society and a deep commitment to de-hierarchising and critically broadening the discipline of art history from a global... read more
dr. M. (Merel) van Tilburg
Contact
m.van.tilburg rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor Art History 1800 - now
Field / Discipline
Art
Early Modern Italian art (1400-1600)
Tomb monuments
Patronage
C.J. (Lotte) van ter Toolen, MA
Contact
c.j.van.ter.toolen rug.nl
+31 50 36 36078
Function
Lecturer | PhD candidate
Field / Discipline
Art
M.F.W. (Merlijn) Torensma, MA
Contact
m.f.w.torensma rug.nl
+31 6 4300 6913
Function
PhD student
toxicity, ecocriticism, time studies, nuclear aesthetics, cultural analysis, the body
R.E. (Ruby) de Vos
Contact
r.e.de.vos rug.nl
Function
Lecturer
Art Behaviors
Human Cognition
Ecological Humanities
Cross-Species Comparisons
dr. A. Wah
Contact
a.wah.laborde rug.nl
+31 50 398 4096
Function
Assistant Professor in Arts and Cognition
Film & Media Studies | Narrative Studies & Narratology | Arts & Cognition | Empirical Aesthetics|
dr. S.P.M. (Steven) Willemsen
Contact
s.p.m.willemsen rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor in Arts & Cognition
philosophy of technology; aesthetics; philosophy of design; political philosophy
R.M. (Ryan) Wittingslow, Dr
Contact
r.m.wittingslow rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor
Field / Discipline
Tuingeschiedenis
Ontworpen Landschapsgeschiedenis
drs. A.J. (Anne) Wolff
Contact
a.j.wolff rug.nl
Function
Lecturer and project leader Centre for Landscape Studies
Field / Discipline
Art
Cosmic Horror, Film Genres, Aesthetics
Q. (Qingling) Zhang
Contact
qingling.zhang rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
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