OSK PhD Council announcement!
Attention all PhD candidates!
We are thrilled to introduce you to the newly established PhD Council which has been created to represent and advocate for the interests of all PhD members of the OSK.
Who are we?
We are four PhD candidates from 3 different universities across the Netherlands at various stages of our research. You can learn more about us and our projects below.
What do we do?
As members of the PhD Council, our primary goal is to foster a supportive and inclusive environment conducive to art historical doctoral research. Our goal is to represent the interests of PhD researchers at the OSK, providing resources and assistance for various aspects of the PhD journey, and organising interdisciplinary events to foster collaboration and networking opportunities. If you have any questions, suggestions, criticism or feedback on how the research school functions at the present moment, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
Stay tuned for updates on upcoming events, workshops, and museum visits!
Julia Alting j.alting@rug.nl
Mariëlle Ekkelenkamp m.b.ekkelenkamp@uva.nl
Nicole Ganbold n.ganbold@uu.nl
Christien Schrover c.e.schrover@uu.nl
Our bio’s
Mariëlle Ekkelenkamp is a PhD candidate in art history at the University of Amsterdam since September 2022. She studied art history and philosophy in Leiden University and Utrecht University respectively, and obtained a Master’s degree in heritage studies at the University of Amsterdam. Interested in the intersection between art history, cultural history and sociology, she is specialized in the relation between gender, class and patronage of art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe. During her studies, she worked as a curator-in-training at the Van Gogh Museum, curating an exhibition on artists’ portraits on paper and conducting research into female artists in German Expressionism. In 2021, she worked as a research assistant for the project The other half. Women’s participation in the Dutch art world, 1780-1980 at the RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History. Her current PhD project funded by the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies sets out to study female patronage through women’s involvement in Dutch foundations for the arts, specifically the Rembrandt Association, from the 1880s until the Second World War.
Contact: m.b.ekkelenkamp@uva.nl
Christien Schrover is a PhD candidate at the faculty of History and Art History at Utrecht University. She specialises in Flemish and Netherlandish art of the late Middle Ages with a particular emphasis on technical art history. She wrote her thesis on the historiography of IR-photography in the study of paintings in the period between 1930 – 1960. Currently she is working on her dissertation, which focuses on the use of 3D facsimiles in art historical practice, with a particular emphasis on the study of late medieval altarpieces.
Contact: c.e.schrover@uu.nl
Julia Alting is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen at the Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG). She studied art history and cultural studies at Amsterdam University College and New York University, and completed an MA Asian studies and a ResMA arts and culture at Leiden University and SOAS, University of London. Her PhD research project, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann and Prof. Dr. Hanneke Grootenboer, looks into nonlinear approaches to art historical time.
Contact: j.alting@rug.nl
Nicole Ganbold obtained her BA and MA from the University of Warsaw where she studied Brazilian landscapes by Frans Post and depictions of Africans in 17th-century Netherlandish art. After graduating, she worked as an Editor in DailyArt Magazine for two years and in March 2023 she joined Prof. Thijs Weststeijn’s Vici project Dutch Global Age at Utrecht University. Her PhD research will focus on the imagery of non-European people created by travelling Netherlandish artists and its global trajectories. Her objective is to show how Netherlandish artists engaged with the world, and vice versa, by incorporating sources and perspectives from beyond Europe. Nicole’s research interests are influenced by her personal experience of having grown up in Europe with an Asian immigrant background. As a scholar, her main goal is to tell a more inclusive story of the Dutch Golden Age as a global age.
Contact: n.ganbold@uu.nl