Staff
Chairs | Lecturers | Guest Lecturers | PhD Candidates
Chairs.
prof. dr. Koos Bosma (j.e.bosma@vu.nl)
Koos Bosma is Professor of History of Architecture and Heritage Studies and teaches on the subjects of architecture, urban planning and housing. Bosma has published extensively on Dutch, 20th-century architecture and is currently managing a research project concerning the metamorphosis undergone by the environment of Schiphol airport during the 20th century. (more)
prof. dr. Wouter Davidts (w.j.davidts@vu.nl)
Wouter Davidts is Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art. He has published widely on the museum, contemporary art and architecture and is currently working on a book-length project on size and scale in postwar art and architecture. (more / personal web page)
prof. dr. Ginette Verstraete (g.e.e.verstraete@vu.nl)
Ginette Verstraete is Professor of Comparative Arts and Media, and Chair of the Department of Comparative Arts and Media Studies. Her research can be situated in the areas of cultural theory, cultural analysis, and comparative arts and media studies, with a thematic focus on mobility, globalization, and geography. (more)
prof. dr. Bert Hogenkamp
Bert Hogenkamp is attached to VU University as a Professor by special appointment in Audio-Visual Studies (Beeld & Geluid). Among his main research interests are the history of documentary films, the history of advertising films and audiovisual communication in the Netherlands. (more / personal web page)
prof. dr. Timo de Rijk
Since September 2010 Timo de Rijk holds the Premsela Endowed Chair Design Cultures. Premsela, Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion, and the Faculty of Arts are supporting this chair with the aim to stimulate scientific research on the position of design in society. His specialization is Design History with a focus on the design history of The Netherlands, the innovation of interior design, the concept of evolution and commercial design. (more)
prof. dr. Frits Scholten
Frits Scholten is senior curator of sculpture at the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) and is Professor of Museum Policies and Collecting at VU University. He has published on North-European sculpture and applied arts. (more)
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Lecturers.
dr. Paul van den Akker
Paul van den Akker is a lecturer on Visual Arts (1400-1800). He works on issues regarding Italian art, especially (the history of) drawing skills, art theory and historiography. (more)
dr. Jos ten Berge
Jos ten Berge is lecturer on Visual Arts (1800-present) and is particularly interested in issues of ‘outsider art’, primitivism and drugs in art. (more)
dr. Ivo Blom
Ivo Blom is lecturer at the Department of Comparative Arts and Media Studies and specializes primarily in film, although he tries to maintain an intermedial approach. His current research centres around Luchino Visconti in relation to visual culture (painting, photography, cinema). (more / personal web page)
dr. Fredie Floré
Fredie Floré is lecturer on History of Architecture and specializes in the history of and discourse on issues of ‘home’, housing, interior and design in the 20th century. (more)
dr. Javier Gimeno-Martínez
Javier Gimeno-Martínez is Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam and lecturer and research coordinator Interior Architecture in the Design Sciences Department at the Artesis University College of Antwerp. His research interests encompass design and fashion as related with consumption, gender and national identity. (more)
dr. Jonneke Jobse
Jonneke Jobse is lecturer on Visual Arts (1800-present) and is primarily interested in the historical avant-garde. Her research concerns the reception of the historical avant-garde and the attempts to actualize their utopian idea(l)s after World War II. (more)
dr. Sven Lütticken
Sven Lütticken is lecturer on Visual Arts (1800-present). His research interests include art criticism and art and media theory. (more / personal web page)
dr. Freek Schmidt
Freek Schmidt is lecturer on History of Architecture and is primarily concerned with architecture, urbanism and theory of the early modern age. His recent work focused on the role of the public and of publications by non-architects in the Dutch architectural culture of the early modern age. (more)
dr. Ingrid Vermeulen
Ingrid Vermeulen is lecturer on Visual Arts (1400-1800) and specializes in the history of collecting, art historiography and prints and drawings in the long 18th century. (more)
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Guest Lecturers.
2012
Emily Scott (University of California)
Julia Bryan-Wilson (University of California)
Paul Chan (artist)
2011
Nora Alter (Temple University)
Jae Emmerling (University of North Carolina)
Alexander Nemerov (Yale University)
Guy Julier (University of Brighton)
Wendelien van Oldenborgh (artist)
Jorinde Seijdel
2010
John C. Welchman (University of California, San Diego)
Terry Smith (University of Pittsburgh)
Gert Jan Kocken (artist)
2009
Lieven de Boeck (artist)
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PhD Candidates.
Ronald de Boer
Ronald de Boer’s PhD research seeks to explore the operational functioning of the corporate art venue in the public institutional art world. (more)
Iris Burgers
Iris Burgers’s PhD research explores the impact of visual representations on collective arrangements of the Schiphol region from 1950 to the present and is part of a larger research project on the metamorphosis of the Schiphol region during the 20th century. (more)
Jeremiah Day
In 2010, Jeremiah Day initiated an experimental collaboration with the Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design (maHKU) and VU University Amsterdam, working between the two institutions in structuring a unique Doctorate of the Arts.
Elise Noyez
Elise Noyez’s PhD research (funded by NWO) considers the representation of visual artists in photography from 1960 to the present and examines how such photographs project specific notions of artisthood. (more)
Rose Tzalmona
Rose Tzalmona is a guest researcher at VU University.
Nathalie Zonnenberg
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