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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
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a.m.abelmann rug.nl
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PhD student
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J. (Julia) Alting, MA
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j.alting rug.nl
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PhD student
Aesthetic Mechanical Capability
Artificial Intelligence
CG-art
Cinema
Creativity
De-animation of the organic
GAN
Inorganic Aesthetics
Machines
Pop
H.P. Lovecraft
Vampires
L.S. (Leonardo Salvador) Arriagada Beltran, MA
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l.s.arriagada.beltran rug.nl
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PhD student
Vanessa Bakhuizen-van 't Hoogt is a PhD candidate in 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 taught in educational workshops. She strives to answer the question how patterns of teaching and learning making can be made explicit, including embodied processes and material knowledge. 

Vanessa develops and teaches various object-based, hands-on and experiential courses at the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Groningen. 

In the BA1course Paint to Pixel, taught together with prof. dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann, we introduce art history students to artists’ materials and techniques by the means of object- and practice-based pedagogy. The students experience materials and techniques hands-on during excursions to the workshops of Minerva Art academy, as well as in the seminars and the assignments (historical reconstructions).  

In the interdisciplinary elective course Under the Skin, which I developed together with pedagogue and educator Margreet Smit, we enhance the reflective potential of second year medical students by drawing on teaching methods from philosophy, psychology, (art) history and arts, and crafts. Making (e.g. materializing their ongoing explorations and reflections in an art-based form) was our main didactic method to create space for reflection. 

Together with visual artist and researcher Henrike Scholten I designed and taught the elective course Deconstructing Instructions that investigates and reflects critically on the art academy’s history. Using a historically informed, experimental and practice-based pedagogic approach, the 16-week course challenged 23 undergraduate art students to engage with the material and didactic heritage of the art academy.
V.S. (Vanessa) Bakhuizen-van 't Hoogt, MA
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v.van.t.hoogt rug.nl
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PhD candidate
E-library
drs. A. (Alie) Bijker
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a.bijker rug.nl
+31 50 36 35021
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Senior License manager
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cultural diplomacy, cultural entrepreneurship, cultural leadership
D.Z. (Djamila) Boulil, MA
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d.z.boulil rug.nl
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Lecturer
C.H.D. (Carmen) van Bruggen
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c.h.d.van.bruggen rug.nl
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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 in an Educational Laboratory (E-lab) in which embodiment and materiality play a role. Together with a research team consisting of teachers from four different secondary schools, they design education in which artistic learning and research processes underline the importance of materiality and embodiment.
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i.m.buurke rug.nl
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PhD student
modern and contemporary art
dr. L.H.M.P. (Leo) Delfgaauw
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l.h.m.p.delfgaauw rug.nl
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lecturer modern and contemporary art
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Art
Culture and Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Sociology of Art and Culture
drs. W.J. (Welmoed) Ekster
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w.j.ekster rug.nl
+31 50 36 35841
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PHD-student Culture in the Mirror
L.R.O. (Linde) Ex, MA
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l.r.o.ex rug.nl
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PhD student
Field / Discipline
Arts and Cognition, Empirical Aesthetics, Arts and Gender, Neuroaesthetics, Philosophy of Art. 
H.G. (Héctor) Gallegos González, MA
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h.g.gallegos.gonzalez rug.nl
+31 50 36 36070
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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: City Girl (Edition Text + Kritik). With Daniel Fairfax, he co-edited The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Munier: Historical Assessments and Phenomenological Expansions (Amsterdam UP); and with Christian Ferencz-Flatz he was responsible for an issue of Studia Phaenomenologica on ‘Film and Phenomenology.’ Currently, he is co-editing, with Martin Rossouw, a volume entitled What Film Is Good For: On the Values of Spectatorship (University of California Press, 2023) and, with Michael Wedel, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Edition Text + Kritik, 2023). His research focuses on film aesthetics, cinematic emotions, film and imagination, film phenomenology, the collective cinema experience, and the beautiful in film.
J. (Julian) Hanich, Prof Dr
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j.hanich rug.nl
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Associate Professor of Film Studies (Universitair hoofddocent 1)
A.R. (Anna-Rosja) Haveman
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a.haveman rug.nl
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Theory of culture; culture and cognition; arts and cognition; arts  and culture education
prof. dr. B.P. (Barend) van Heusden
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b.p.van.heusden rug.nl
+31 50 36 36018
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Professor
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 Arts at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, where she researched and published on drawn designs for objects from c. 1500-1900 acquired through the museum’s Decorative Art Fund and worked on the preparations for the exhibition KWAB. Dutch Design in the Age of Rembrandt. She holds an MA (Distinction) in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she was Associate Researcher to the Courtauld Gallery and was awarded the Director’s Dissertation Prize for her thesis on drawings by Arent van Bolten in the British Museum. She has been the recipient of grants from the VSBfonds and the Courtauld Institute of Art. 

E.F. (Esther) van der Hoorn, MA
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e.f.van.der.hoorn rug.nl
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PhD student
Field / Discipline
Cultural Narratology and Thanatology
Q.T. (Krina) Huisman, MA
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q.t.huisman rug.nl
+31 50 36 37123
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PhD student
Modern and Contemporary Art, Performance Art, Socially Engaged Art, Feminist Art, Sexually Explicit Art, Erotic Art, Art of Slovenia
N. (Neja) Kaiser, MA
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n.kaiser rug.nl
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PhD student
Field / Discipline
Art
Narrative and cognitive film theory
Digital Film Forensics / Videographic criticism 
Complex cinema, puzzle films
M. (Miklós) Kiss, Dr
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m.kiss rug.nl
+31 50 36 37269
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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.
M.F.A. (Annemarie) Kok, MA
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m.f.a.kok rug.nl
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Art
Organisation and communication in the arts; cultural democracy
dr. J.A.C. (Johan) Kolsteeg
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j.a.c.kolsteeg rug.nl
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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 knowledge about making engenders material literacy. My approach is transhistorical and includes old and new media, ranging from oil paint and clay to aniline dyes and software. For an overview of academic activities and published work, see also: https://rug.academia.edu/AnnSophieLehmann

Interview for the Materialized Identies Project: https://www.materializedidentities.com/single-post/2017/08/02/Interview-with-Ann-Sophie-Lehmann
A.S. (Ann-Sophie) Lehmann, Prof Dr
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Chair of Art History & Material Culture
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Critical theory, aesthetics, art criticism, philosophy of culture
dr. T.E. (Thijs) Lijster
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t.e.lijster rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Philosophy of Art and Culture
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dr. B.T. (Tino) Mager
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tino.mager rug.nl
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Assistant Professor History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
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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 (literary) Chinese texts and philology; ancient and modern Chinese literature
O.J. (Oliver) Moore, Prof Dr
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o.j.moore rug.nl
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Chair, Chinese Language & Culture
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drs. L. (Linda ) Nijenhof
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l.nijenhof rug.nl
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Art
Film Theory, Aesthetics of Technology, Visual Media, Experimental Media Archaeology, Theory and History of the Grotesque.
prof. dr. A.M.A. (Annie) van den Oever
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a.m.a.van.den.oever rug.nl
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Arts Culture and Media / Film
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Culture Commons, Culture Policy, Art Sociology, Art and Social Cohesion
dr. J.F. (Hanka) Otte
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hanka.otte rug.nl
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Teacher
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dr. V. (Veronica) Peselmann
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v.peselmann rug.nl
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Assistant Professor for Modern and Contemporary Art
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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
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h.ronnes rug.nl
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Bijzondere leerstoel Historische buitenplaatsen en landgoederen (Stichting Van der Wyck-De Kempenaer)
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Modern and Contemporary art, Theory and Art criticism, Museum history.
dr. P. (Peter) de Ruiter
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p.de.ruiter rug.nl
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Assistant professor Modern and contemporary art
Field / Discipline
Art
Latin American Literature and Art
Gender Studies
Global Modernism
Literary Theory
dr. C.G. (Camilla) Sutherland, PhD
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c.g.sutherland rug.nl
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Assistant Professor European Culture and Literature: Spanish
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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 perspective, in particular the history and historiography of modern and contemporary art. Research interests include global modernisms; interculturality; gender studies; history and theory of craft; textile art; art theory; critical theory; philosophy of art; history of colonialism; theories of anti-colonialism; exhibition theory and practice; contemporary art and politics; environmental criticism; relationships between art and architecture; public art; cultural heritage; intermediality; performance art; art and psychology; affect theory; nineteenth-century art; symbolism; art criticism.
dr. M. (Merel) van Tilburg
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m.van.tilburg rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Art History 1800 - now
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Art
M.F.W. (Merlijn) Torensma, MA
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m.f.w.torensma rug.nl
+31 6 4300 6913
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PhD student
Interactive science exhibitions, digital media, PR & marketing communication
I.C. (Ingeborg) Veldman, MA
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i.c.veldman rug.nl
+31 50 36 34781
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Projectleader Science LinX
toxicity, ecocriticism, time studies, nuclear aesthetics, cultural analysis, the body
dr. R.E. (Ruby) de Vos
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r.e.de.vos rug.nl
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Lecturer
Artistic Cognition
Human Cognition
Reflective Imagination
Behavioral Adaptation
Ecological Humanities

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dr. A. (Alejandra) Wah
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a.wah.laborde rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Arts and Cognition
Film & Media Studies | Narrative Studies & Narratology | Arts & Cognition | Empirical Aesthetics|
dr. S.P.M. (Steven) Willemsen
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s.p.m.willemsen rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Arts & Cognition
Tuingeschiedenis
Ontworpen Landschapsgeschiedenis
drs. A.J. (Anne) Wolff
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a.j.wolff rug.nl
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Lecturer and project leader Centre for Landscape Studies
Field / Discipline
Art
dr. A.T. (Antine) Zijlstra
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a.t.zijlstra rug.nl
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Lecturer Arts Marketing
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