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Staff members with discipline Humanities, Multidisciplinary

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.

Overview of all disciplines

digital humanities, digital cultural heritage, media history, media archaeology, digital history, web history, media technologies, audiovisual culture, everyday media practices (home movies, technologies of memory) documentary theory and history, visual... read more
prof. dr. S.I. (Susan) Aasman
Contact
s.i.aasman rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4112
Function
Professor of Digital Humanities
Field / Discipline
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
Qualitative ethnographic research

Syrian diasporic communities in Europe

Migration studies
A. (Halim) Albakkor, MA MSc
Contact
a.albakkor rug.nl
Function
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
Visual political communication, Information visualizations, Social networks, Digital culture, Political campaigns; Political learning; Information Studies
E.R. (Eedan) Amit-Danhi, PhD
Contact
e.r.amit-danhi rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Media, Centre for Media and Journalism Studies
Modernism, Post-Modernism, the Enlightenment, Theory and Philosophy, Post-Humanism, Imperialism, Cultural Geography, Poetry, Poetics and Publishing
D.M. (David) Ashford, Dr
Contact
d.m.ashford rug.nl
Function
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
Heritage in post-conflict societies, contested heritage, culture, identity, representation, story-telling, nationhood
S.B. (Shanade) Barnabas, Dr
Contact
s.b.barnabas rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor Cultural Heritage and Identity: Material and Intangible Heritage
Semitic Languages and Cultures, Medieval Hebrew Language and Literature, Medieval Hebrew Poetry (Piyyut), Judeo-Islamic culture, Middle Eastern Studies, European Jewish History.
prof. dr. W.J. (Wout) van Bekkum
Contact
w.j.van.bekkum rug.nl
Function
Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
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
The Politics of Sound and Listening, Radio and Podcast Studies, Media Cultures of Gender and Sexuality, Audio Archives and Cultural Heritage, Queer and Feminist Media Production and Aesthetics, Political Phenomenology, Audio Recording as Method, Canadian... read more
A.V.M. (Stacey) Copeland, Dr
Contact
a.v.m.copeland rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor - Cultural Heritage and Identity, Creative Industries
Medieval History; History of Reading in Premodern Europe; European Culture and Literature in the Middle Ages
S. (Sabrina) Corbellini, Prof
Contact
s.corbellini rug.nl
Function
Professor "History of Reading in Premodern Europe"
Digital humanities, social networks, history of philosophy, interdisciplinary research, literary theory
S.J. (Silvia) Donker, MA
Contact
s.j.donker rug.nl
Function
PhD student & Lecturer in Digital Humanities
Arts, cognition and education
dr. T. (Theisje) van Dorsten
Contact
t.van.dorsten rug.nl
+31 50 36 39059
Function
Assistant Professor
L.R. (Linde) Draaisma, MA
Contact
l.r.draaisma rug.nl
Function
PhD candidate

Cognitive science, Theoretical Psychology, Developmental Psychology

Thesis: Culture as Cognition. A thorough description, operationalisation and valorisation of a new overarching theory on the origin of human´s ability for culture, the basic skills and...
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drs. W.J. (Welmoed) Ekster
Contact
w.j.ekster rug.nl
+31 50 36 35841
Function
PhD student
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Contact
a.erdogan rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Humanities (evolution of culture, philosophy, law, arts)
dr. E. (Eelco) van Es
Contact
e.van.es rug.nl
+31 50 36 37255
Function
Lecturer
Field / Discipline
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
(Global) Media, Cultural Industries, Internet Governance, Gender and Technology, Critical Theory and Decoloniality; member of the Digital Constitutionalism Network ; Internet Rights and Principles Coalition ; Global Internet Governance Academic Network (G... lees meer
prof. dr. M.I. (Marianne ) Franklin
Contact
m.i.franklin rug.nl
Function
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
Musicology
Cultural history
dr. J. van Gessel
Contact
j.van.gessel rug.nl
Function
Research
Mediaeval History; Cultural and Religious History; Human-Animal Studies; Critical Animal Studies; Posthumanism; Cultural Heritage; Mediaevalisms in Games

Public Engagement
Design of the educational board game, Monstrum.

Education

Coordination...
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S. (Sven) Gins, MA
Contact
s.gins rug.nl
+31 50 36 37318
Function
PhD Researcher / Dutch Studies Coordinator
Placement and internships, Labour Market Faculty of Arts
E.E. (Esther) Haag, MA
Contact
e.e.haag rug.nl
+31 50 36 35844
Function
Placement Coordinator Faculty of Arts
Identity negotiation in companion service
X. (Xuedi) Han
Contact
xuedi.han rug.nl
+31 6 1033 0297
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
Palaeography and the Dead Sea Scrolls
G.A. (Gemma) Hayes, MA
Contact
g.a.hayes rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Field / Discipline
Culture, Communication & Leadership 
Shakespeare, Presentism & Performance
Ethnic and Racial Studies
dr. C.P.A. (Coen) Heijes
Contact
c.p.a.heijes rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
Historical anthropology; medieval and cultural history; methods and theory; history of ideas, esp. the French intellectual tradition; the relationship between religion and the academic discourse; the relationship between texts and images.
dr. B.S. (Babette) Hellemans
Contact
b.s.hellemans rug.nl
+31 50 36 36035
Function
lecturer
performing theory and analysis, contemporary theatre, evaluation processes and theatre criticism, theatrepolicy
drs. L.D.M.E. (Lucia) van Heteren
Contact
l.d.m.e.van.heteren rug.nl
310 503 6360 43
Function
docente theaterwetenschap
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
bc. P.F. (Fredrik) Karlsson
Contact
p.f.karlsson rug.nl
+31 50 750 6116
Function
Teacher
Field / Discipline
Emillie is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam’s Open Intelligence Lab, and a research consultant for the UN DPPA Innovation Cell. Her research lies on the formation of speech norms in social media... read more
E.V. (Emillie Victoria) de Keulenaar, MA
Contact
e.v.de.keulenaar rug.nl
Function
Ethnography
J. (Jim) Kroezen
Contact
j.kroezen rug.nl
+31 6 5421 3655
Function
PhD candidate
(long) nineteenth-century English literature and culture (esp. novel, gender, popularity, Empire, realism, Anglo-German relations); travel writing (often with a China/Hong Kong focus, theories of travel/ writing); literary and poetic theory (genre,... read more
prof. dr. J.C. (Julia) Kühn
Contact
j.c.kuhn rug.nl
Function
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
20th Century American Literature
English for Academic Purposes
Legal English
English proficiency
Presentation skills
Writing skills
Holds: UTQ
drs. J.R. (Janene) van Loon
Contact
j.r.van.loon rug.nl
Function
PhD Candidate / English Lecturer
Gemma López Canicio is Research Fellow in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen. Her expertise is in narrative research, emphasizing artistic-narrative communication (literature and cinema), fiction, story-telling, and... read more
G. (Gemma) Lopez Canicio, PhD
Contact
g.lopez.canicio rug.nl
Function
interdisciplinary modernism, modern and contemporary British literature (specializing in the literature of the mid-twentieth century), literature and politics, environmental humanities, the novel
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Contact
a.k.maher rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
History of religion & politics; history of Europe in the twentieth century, especially France; human rights; modern & contemporary Christianity, especially dissident forms of Catholicism and Protestantism; history of warfare and war atrocities;... read more
R.M. (Rachel) McElroy White, PhD
Contact
r.m.johnston-white rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor of Contemporary History
Children's use of digital media - The development of digital literacy; media literacy; news competencies; citizenship
D. (Denise) Mensonides
Contact
d.mensonides rug.nl
Function
PhD-Student
History of Brazil and Latin America, Intellectual and Cultural History, History of the Social Sciences
I.W. (Ian) Merkel, PhD
Contact
i.w.merkel rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
Decoloniality
Theory from the South
Media & National Identity
Digital & Emerging Media
Video Games
Media Theory
Critical Race Theory
Decolonial Ecopolitics
R.L. (Rachel Lara) van der Merwe, PhD
Contact
r.l.van.der.merwe rug.nl
Function
I am researching the future of our digital past at the University of Groningen. Based at the Faculty of Arts (Groningen) and Campus Fryslân (Leeuwarden), I focus on local research to stimulate science in the North of the Netherlands. Drawing on my... read more
M. (Marije) Miedema, MA
Contact
m.miedema rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4332
Function
PhD Candidate
Fields of Expertise: Political Theory, Digital Humanities, Global & Local Governance.

My PhD project focuses on digital democratic innovations and their potential for increased citizens’ participation, deliberation and influence on political...
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A.A. (Anna) Mikhaylovskaya, MA
Contact
a.a.mikhaylovskaya rug.nl
Function
Media and Communication, Digital Media studies, Migration and Diaspora studies, Gender studies, Postcolonial studies, Cultural studies
C. (Claudia) Minchilli, PhD
Contact
c.minchilli rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
Field / Discipline
Research expertise in the areas of gender and feminisms, decolonization, and poverty, through the lens of tourism. Also interested in qualitative approaches to research, in particular arts-based and decolonizing methdologies.
M.L. (Meghan) Muldoon, PhD
Contact
m.l.muldoon rug.nl
Function
My main research topic is about what do people need to share their existential issues in a constructive way -in different work and care contexts. Concrete research contexts/projects:
1) The earthquake region Groningen - disaster chaplaincy; 2) UMCG:...
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prof. dr. J.K. (Hanneke) Muthert
Contact
j.k.muthert rug.nl
+31 6 2969 8061
Function
Professor Psychology of Religion with special attention for Spiritual Care and Wellbeing
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
Embodiment, mobilities, technology, digital geographies, methods.
dr. T.C. (Tess) Osborne, PhD
Contact
t.osborne rug.nl
Function
Researcher & Lecturer
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
Cultural Sociology
dr. B. (Beate) Peter
Contact
b.peter rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4065
Function
Assistant Professor of Cultural Sociology
I'm interested in digital social reading (how people write and read fiction online) and I use computational, qualitative, and quantitative methods to study how people read.

I'm Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project GOLEM (Graphs and...
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F. (Federico) Pianzola, PhD
Contact
f.pianzola rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4081
Function
Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities
M.E. (Manuel) Pinto Reyes, MA
Contact
m.e.pinto.reyes rug.nl
Function
Open Science Assistant Program Manager
in the context of serious medical illness,




Psychotherapeutic Patient-care
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dr. G. (Grieteke) Pool
Contact
g.pool01 umcg.nl
+31 50 361 6639
Function
Assistant Professor & Clinical Psychologist
Hebrew Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls, Artificial Intelligence and palaeography, Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period, archaeology, ancient sciences, astrology, physiognomics and magic

see also http://www.rug...
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prof. dr. M. (Mladen) Popovic
Contact
m.popovic rug.nl
Function
Dean of the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society
Comics studies, narrative theory, word and image
dr. B. (Barbara) Postema
Contact
b.postema rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4150
Function
Lecturer
critical approaches to American literature, art, and media, 1900 to the present; modernism; utopia in literature, theory, and history; the culture of politics and politics of culture in the 21st century
K.S. (Kathryn) Roberts, Dr
Contact
k.s.roberts rug.nl
Function
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
Sabina is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage at the University of Groningen, serving the multi-disciplinary faculty of Campus Fryslan.

She is a laureate of the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her project “Transformation of Female...
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S. (Sabina) Rosenbergová, PhD
Contact
s.rosenbergova rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage & Marie Curie Fellow
Science and Technology Studies, Media studies, user studies, co-creation/co-design practices, Living lab methodologies, Digital Humanities, Serendipity, Information studies
dr. S.C. (Sabrina) Sauer
Contact
s.c.sauer rug.nl
Function
Assistant professor Media Studies
human communication, information presentation, human computer interaction, natural language generation, affective computing, multimodal interaction.
dr. I.F. (Ielka) van der Sluis
Contact
i.f.van.der.sluis rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4039
Function
Assistant Professor
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Contact
a.p.smit rug.nl
Function
PhD Candidate
Memory Studies
Platform Studies
Critical AI Studies
Media Theory 
dr. P.H. (Rik) Smit
Contact
p.h.smit rug.nl
Function
Senior Lecturer Media Studies
Kocku von Stuckrad is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on topics related to the history of religion, science, and philosophy in Europe and North America. Professor von Stuckrad served as President... read more
C.K.M. (Kocku) von Stuckrad, Prof
Contact
c.k.m.von.stuckrad rug.nl
Function
Professor of Religious Studies
- Hebrew Bible
- Targum
- Judaism
- Hebrew, Aramaic
No picture available
Contact
j.m.tanja rug.nl
Function
Lecturer Hebrew Bible and Judaism
Religion, Conflict, Peacebuilding and Reconciliation; Climate Change, Conflict, Peace and Security; Religion and Politics; Religion and Human Security; Community Development; Civil Society and Social Movements; 
J. (Joram) Tarusarira, Dr
Contact
j.tarusarira rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor
American Studies
Colonial America
The American Revolution
The Early American Republic
The US South
The early modern Atlantic World
Ethnicity, national identity, and race
M.L. (Mark) Thompson
Contact
m.l.thompson rug.nl
Function
Senior Lecturer of American Studies
Vera Veldhuizen is assistant professor in both European Languages and Cultures, and Arts, Media, Culture at the University of Groningen. Previously she attended Cambridge University for her PhD in children's literature, with Homerton College and the... read more
dr. V.N. (Vera) Veldhuizen
Contact
v.n.veldhuizen rug.nl
+31 50 36 35202
Function
Assistant Professor
Dr. Pieter Verstraete holds a PhD degree in the Humanities from the Department of Theater Studies and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the University of Amsterdam. His expertises are in Theatre and Performance Studies, Sound and Audio... read more
P.M.G. (Pieter) Verstraete, Dr
Contact
p.m.g.verstraete rug.nl
Function
Ass. Prof. in Arts, Culture and Media
Postcolonial European cultural identity; contemporary South African culture, the Afrikaans literary field, and the public sphere. Transnational cultural production. Interdisciplinary project-based education.
prof. dr. M.C. (Margriet) van der Waal
Contact
m.c.van.der.waal rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor and Director of Studies Erasmus Mundus Master Euroculture: European society, culture, and politics in a global context. Also Endowed Chair of South African literature, culture and history (University of Amsterdam)
Religion and popular culture; ritual studies; fan studies; digital ethnography; cultural heritage.
W.F. (Welmoed) Wagenaar, MA
Contact
w.f.wagenaar rug.nl
Function
PhD student
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
Marline Lisette Wilders is an audience and reception researcher in the arts. She specializes in aesthetic experiences in relationship to the experience of space and place, focusing on theatre architecture and theatre space, found spaces, industrial... read more
dr. M.L. (Marline Lisette) Wilders
Contact
m.l.wilders rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor Arts in Society / Empirical Research Methods Humanities
Religion and diplomacy, secularism, refugees and forced migration, human rights, development, global justice, globalization, climate change
E.K. (Erin) Wilson, Prof
Contact
e.k.wilson rug.nl
Function
Professor of Politics and Religion
Nature conservation, energy transition, energy cooperatives, science-society dynamics
H.J. (Henny J) van der Windt
Contact
h.j.van.der.windt rug.nl
+31 50 36 32280
Function
Associate Professor
Digital Humanities, Computational Literature, Cultural Evolution, Fan Study, Knowledge Representation, NLP
X. (Xiaoyan) Yang
Contact
xiaoyan.yang rug.nl
Function
Digital Humanities, Computational Literary Studies, Comparative Studies
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Contact
z.yu rug.nl
Function
PhD student
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