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Research Network for Transcultural Practices in the Arts and Humanities

RNTP Members A-Z

To get more information about RNTP-members' research foci and professional backgrounds please have a look at our alphabetically ordered members' list below. If you wish to join the network, please click here.

Name

Institutional affiliation / Research foci / Profession 

Country of residence

Allerstorfer, Julia

Assistant Professor, Fakultät für Philosophie und für Kunstwissenschaft, Katholische Privat-Universität Linz

Austria

Altinoba, Buket

Fellow Mathilde-Planck-Programm (MPL), Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Departement of Art History, Aesthetics and Art Theory, Germany 

Germany

Ambrozy, Lee 

PhD candidate, Department of Chinese Art History and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

US

Antilla, Amara

Assistant Curator, Guggenheim Museum

US

Baader, Hannah

Academic Program Director of the research program Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices and Senior Research Scholar at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut

Germany/ Italy

Bauer-Zhao, Lisa 

PhD candidate at University of Hildesheim / Performance Artist

Germany

Beutel, Carolin

Student researcher in the DFG-International Research Training Group 'Interart Studies' at Free University in Berlin

Germany

Bentcheva, Eva

Adjunct Researcher, Tate Research Centre: Asia

UK

Beyer, Vera

Lecturer, Faculty of Art and Design, Dept. of Art and Media Design, Bergische Universität Wuppertal 

Germany

Bhagwati, Annette

Project Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 

Germany

Boskamp, Ulrike

Fellow at the DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), Free University Berlin

Germany

Brosius, Christiane

HCTS Professor of Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg University

Germany

Brus, Anita

PhD student, University of Leiden (Contempory African art and literature)

 

Brus, Anna

PhD candidate, DFG-Graduate School "Locating Media", Universität Siegen

Germany

Bublatzky, Cathrine

Assistant Professor, Visual and Media Anthropology, Heidelberg

Germany

Buurman, Nanne

PhD candidate in the DFG-International Research Training Group 'Interart Studies' at Free University in Berlin

Germany

Cacchione, Orianna

PhD candiate, UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts; Curatorial Fellow in Contemporary East Asian Art, Art Institute of Chicago

US

Castellanos Reyes, Daniel 

Artist /Faculty of Arts & Design, Bauhaus-University-Weimar

Germany

Chatterjee, Sandra

Choreographer and Postdoctoral researcher, Dept. of Music and Dance Studies, University of Salzburg (research-project Traversing the Contemporary (pl.), and the communication project Tanz und Migration, Austrian Science Fund [FWF] P 24190 and WPK 32)

Austria 

ChingIsabel

Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context”, Heidelberg University

Germany

Cohen, Joshua I.

Assistant Professor, Art Department, The City College of New York

US

Cordez, Philippe

Institute of Art History, Leader of the Research Group "Premodern Objects. An Archeology of Experience"

Germany

Cordova, James 

Associate Prof., Art History Pre-Columbian and Latin American Art, Dept. of Art & Art History, University of Colorado Boulder

US

Costello, Kate

DPhil Candidate, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

UK

Cronk, Laura

MA student at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

UK

Cubelic, Danijel

PhD Candidate, Department for the Study of Religions, Heidelberg University

Germany

Dean, Carolyn

Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz

US

Désert, Jean-Ulrick 

Artist

Germany 

Díaz Rivas, Vanessa 

PhD candidate / Contemporary Art in Mozambique

Germany

Dirani, Noura 

Research assistant at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University
Assistant curator at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (research project "museum global")

Germany

Dohmen, Renate

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, Faculty of Arts Art History

UK

Dolezalek, Isabelle

Lecturer in Medieval Art History, Technical University of Berlin

Germany

Dornhof, Sarah 

Postdoctoral research fellow, DAAD P.r.i.m.e., Freie Universität Berlin / Mohammed V University, Rabat

Germany/ Morocco

Edenheiser, Iris 

Head of Department 'World Cultures' at Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim

Germany

Ebeling, Knut

Professor in Media Theory and Aesthetics, Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee

Germany

Einfeldt, Kirsten 

Head of Research and member of the directing team at Haus der Kulturen (HKW) der Welt, Berlin
Co-director of "SYNAPSE. The international curators‘ network” at HKW

Germany

Name

Institutional affiliation / Research foci / Profession 

Country of residence

Farago, Claire Prof. in Art History/Renaissance Art Theory, Dept. of Art and History, University of Colorado Boulder US
Feng, You MA student, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of London UK
Fischer, Berit

Phd researcher Winchester School of Art/Southampton University, UK

freelance curator

Germany

Förschler, Silke

Research assistant, Universität Kassel, LOEWE-Schwerpunkt „Tier – Mensch – Gesellschaft“

Germany

Gaafar, Rania

Research associate at the Media Art department, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Postgraduate researcher, Goldsmiths College, Visual Culture department, University of London

 

Gaupp, Lisa

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Germany

Gelati, Ioannis

 

 

Gladston, Paul

Professor in Culture, Film and Media, Faculty of Arts, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, The University of Nottingham

UK

Gludovatz, Karin

Professor in History of European Art (14th-18th century), Dept. of Art History, Free University Berlin

Germany

Gong, Joshua 

Research student (Art History) and Associate Tutor (Sussex Centre for Language Studies, Art History), School of History, Art History and Philosophy, University of Sussex

UK

Gupta, Atreyee

Jane Emison Assistant Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Germany/ US

Güngör, Ayᶊe

PhD Student, Technische Universität Berlin,  Dept. of. Kunstwissenschaft 

Germany/ Turkey

Günther, Christoph 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; Visiting Professor, Center for Intercultural Studies (University of Mainz); Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Oriental Studies (University of Leipzig) and Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Marburg)

Germany

Haage, Katharina

Digital Preservation Researcher, Tate, London

UK

Haimbe, Milumbe

Visual Artist

Zambia

Helg, Ursula

Art Historian and Anthropologist, Art of the 20th Century/African Art History and visual Culture/ Global Art History and Transcultural Studies

DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), Freie Universität Berlin

Germany

ter Heijne, Mathilde 

Professor of Visual Art/Media, Installation, and Performance, Kunsthochschule Kassel   Kassel

Holtz, Hanna

Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI) in Hamburg

Germany

Hopfener, Birgit

Post-doc Researcher Art,Art History/East Asian Art department, Free University Berlin

Germany

Izquierdo de la Viña, Sol

MA student, Art History in a Global Context, Free University Berlin

Germany/ Spain

Jang, Nayun 

PhD student,  The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

UK

Jefferies, Janis

Professor of Visual Arts and Associate Pro Warden for the Creative and Cultural Industries, Goldsmiths, University of London

UK

Jeychandran, Neelima

Scholar/Curator

India

Juneja, Monica

HCTS Professor of Global Art History, Heidelberg University

Germany

Klein, Melanie

Research Fellow at the DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), in research unit C3 "Fictions of the Original. Studies Analysing the Practices of and Discourses on Modern and Contemporary Art in Africa", Free University Berlin

Germany/ Sweden

Koch, Franziska Assistant Professor, Global Art History, Heidelberg University Germany
Kooriadathodi, Mahmood  PhD candidate in History, Leiden University Institute for History Netherlands
Kranen, Annette Fellow at the DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), Free University Berlin Germany
Kravagna, Christian Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Austria
Küster, Bärbel

Since October 2014: Deputy professor for Modern Art, Dept. of Art Theory and Historical Urbanism, Technische Universität Berlin

http://www.abk-stuttgart.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/zeitgenoessische-fotografie-in-bamako-und-dakar/s/küster.html

Germany
Kwok, Ying  Artist and curator at Collector Club Hong Kong/ China/ UK

Name

Institutional affiliation / Research foci / Profession 

Country of residence

Lamoni, Giulia

Postdoctoral research fellow at Instituto de Historia da Arte, Univers. Nova de Lisboa

Portugal
Laureillard, Marie  Art historian and Associate professor in Chinese language and civilization, Lumière-Lyon 2 University France
Lee, Hena  MA student, "Curating Contemporary", School of Humanities, Royal College of Art UK
Leblan, Vincent 

Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement "Patrimoines Locaux" ("Local heritages") research unit, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département Hommes, Natures, Sociétés

France

Leeb, Susanne

Professor of Contemporary Art, Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Germany

Leibsohn, Dana

Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Professor of Art, Dept. of Art History, Smith College

US

Lesák, Franziska

Coordinator at the DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), Freie Universität Berlin

Germany

Linh, Do Tuong 

Curator and writer / student of Hanoi Fine Arts University

Vietnam

Lipska, Magda 

Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw

Poland

Liu, Di 

MA student, History of Design, Royal College of Art

Hong Kong/ China/ UK

Lutz, Barbara 

PhD student, University of Hildesheim / Research focus on curating and art mediation as a transcultural practice

Germany 

Malinda, Ato

Visual artist 

Netherlands

Mamine, Tomoko 

Doctoral student, Department of Art History of Freie Universität Berlin

Berlin

Marchini, Chiara 

Doctoral student, Media Studies at Philipps-Universität Marburg

Germany

Marsden, Rachel 

Lecturer in Art Curatorship at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Australia

Massey, Annabella 

PhD student in contemporary Chinese literary and visual culture at the University of Oxford

UK

Mersmann, Birgit

Deputy professor for Modern and Contemporary Art and Aesthetic Theories, Dept. of Art History, University of Cologne

Germany

Mersmann, Susanne

Post-doc researcher, Lecturer at Philipps-Universität Marburg

Germany

Middelhoff, Frederike 

PhD candidate, graduate school of the humanities, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Germany

Minnaard, Liesbeth 

Assistant professor (UD) at the Film and Literary Studies department of Leiden University; Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

Netherlands

Morales, Lourdes 

Postdoctoral Fellow “Collaborative Narratives on Cinema: The Mexican-Quebecois Co-production Case”, Art History and Communication Studies Department, McGill University 

Canada/ Mexico

Morris, Frances

Director, Tate Modern, London

UK

Nadal, Deborah

Honorary Fellow, Dept. of Human Sciences, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
Hunt postdoctoral fellowship (Wenner Gren Foundation)

Italy

Nuttal, Sarah

Director at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witswatersrand

South Africa

Olchawa, Joanna

Postdoctoral research fellow, Dept. of Art History, Universität Osnabrück 

Germany

Paracciani, Loredana

Independent Curator / Lecturer at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore

Thailand/ Singapore

Peterson, Jeanette

Professor, Dept. of History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara (retired)

US

Pierce, Donna

Former Frederick & Jan Mayer Curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum (1999-2015)

US

Ponnudurai, Manuvelraj 

PhD Student, School of Arts & Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru Univers., New Delhi 

India

Preisinger, Raphaèle 

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Bern
Research foci: the imagery of colonial Latinamerica in the Early Modern Period; global interrelations since the Early Modern Period

Switzerland

Name

Institutional affiliation / Research foci / Profession 

Country of residence

Rath, Amanda Katherine Lecturer Modern and Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia Dept. of Southeast Asian Studies; Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Germany
Rebhan, Doris Student Assistant at the DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), research unit C3 "Fictions of the original. Exploring practices and discourses of the arts of Africa", Free University Berlin Germany
Robbe, Ksenia Assistant Professor, Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden University Netherlands
Rodatus, Verena

Lecturer, Dept. Arts and Visual Cultures of Africa, Free University Berlin

Germany

Rosen, Philip

Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

US/ Germany

Rossman, Aleksandr B.

PhD Student in History of Art, Univers.ofCalifornia, Berkeley

US/ Germany

Saviello, Alberto

Fellow DFG-Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art…",
research unit of Prof. Krüger "The charisma of the foreign. The aesthetics of Religious Exchange in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World"

 

Germany

Schankweiler, Kerstin

Arts of Africa, Free University Berlin, SFB 1171 "Affective Societies" (Project B01)

Germany

Schmidt, Tanja

Student Assistant at the DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), research unit A2 "Glocalization Processes in the Art of Religious Orders in the Early Modern Period", Free University Berlin

Germaby

Schieren, Mona

Teaching researcher, Dept. of Art and Design, University of the Arts Bremen

Germany

Schmuck, Lydia

Postdoctoral research fellow, Dept. of Politics  & The Heisenberg Chair Europe and Modernity, University of Hamburg

Germany

Seiderer, Anna

Maître de Conférences at the Art Department of the University Paris 8

France

Shea, Claire 

Curatorial director of the Cass Sculpture Foundation in West Sussex

UK

Sheng, Kuang Vivian 

PhDcandiate, Dept. of the History of Art, Univers. of York

UK 

Sidzimovska, Ivana 

Visual artistandurban researcher (PhDCandidate in Arts at the Bauhaus University Weimar)

Germany

Steindorf, Johanna 

Artist and researcher (Ph.D. candidate and scholarship holder at the Bauhaus-University Weimar’s Media Arts department)

Germany

Sykorova, Sandra 

Assistant Curator of Adult Programmes, Tate Modern

UK

Syn, Virginie 

International Director at Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong, ShanghaiandSingapore)

UK

Tam, Isabella 

Assistant Curator, Visual Art, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Tan, Erica

Artist, Curator, Member of the Research Department for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrIAN), University of the Arts, London

 London/ Singapore

Tan, Ying 

Curator, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA); Curatorial Faculty, Liverpool Biennial 2016

UK 

Tarocco, Francesca

Associate Professor at Ca’FoscariUniversity of Venice and Visiting Associate Professor at NYU Shanghai

China

Tayob, Shaheed 

PhDFellow, The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen

Germany

Tiampo, Ming 

Professor, School forStudies in Art and Culture, and Director, Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Associate Memberat ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry

US

Thürigen, Susanne

PhD candiate, Dept.of Art History, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Predoctoral research fellow in the International Junior Research Group "Vormoderne Objekte"

Germany

Tokuyama, Yuka 

Independent curator

UK

Trede, Melanie 

Professor for the Histories of Japanese Art, Heidelberg University

Germany

Troelenberg, Eva-Maria

Head of the Max Planck Research Group "Objects in the Contact Zone: The cross-cultural Life of Things" at Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence

Italy

Tsionki, Marianna

Research Curator, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) &PhDcandidate, Manchester Metropolitan University

UK

Twitchin, Mischa 

British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Drama, Queen Mary, University of London

UK 

Name

Institutional affiliation / Research foci / Profession 

Country of residence

Ulrich, Antonia 

PhD canditate at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Potsdam

Germany
Ulz, Melanie 

Junior professor in Art History, Dept. of Art History, Universität Osnabrück
(currently substitute professor in History of Modern and Contemporary Art at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Germany
Valjakka, Minna 

Affiliated Fellow, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
Researcher, Art History, University of Helsinki

Netherlands/ Finland
Veliz Argueta, Beatriz 

Associate Research Fellow; Visiting Fellow, Dept. of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London

UK

Villaseñor Black, Charlene 

Professor in Ibero-American Art and Chicana/o Studies, Dept. of Art History, UCLA

US 

von Bismarck, Beatrice 

Professor for Art History and Visual Culture at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig 

Germany

Wainwright, Leon 

Reader in Art History, Department of Art History, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

UK

Waldmann, Magdalena 

 

Germany

Wallin Wictorin, Margareta 

Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Studies, Linnaeus Univ. Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, And Karlstad University

Sweden

Wan, Katy 

Assistant curator of international art at Tate Modern, London

UK

Wang, Xin 

Curator, art historian, phd candidate in contemporary art at the IFA, NYU

US 

Weddigen, Tristan 

Professor for the History of Early Modern Art at the University of Zurich

http://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/neuzeit/res/philippines.html 

http://www.khist.uzh.ch/de/chairs/neuzeit/res/mexico.html

Switzerland

Wendl, Tobias

Professor for African Arts and Visual Cultures, Dept. of Art History, Free University Berlin

Germany

Wienand, Kea 

Post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the Department for „Art and Visual
Culture”, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Germany 

Wilde, Guillermo

Latin American history / Associate Professor, National University of San Martin
Postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (project on Missions Global History)

Argentina/ Germany

Wolf, Gerhard

Director and Scientific Member at the Art History Institute in Florence - Max Planck Institute

Italy

You, Mi

Research associate at Academy of Media Arts Cologne

Germany

Zehnle, Stephanie

Researcher at DFG-Group „Gewaltgemeinschaften“, Teilprojekt „Leopardenmänner. Ein translokales Gewaltphänomen in der kolonialen Phase Afrikas (Sierra Leone/Liberia 1880-1950).“, Dept. of Social Sciences, University of Kassel

Germany

Zhang, Runan 

 

 

Zobel, Philipp

Student Assistant at the DFG Research Group "Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art" (FOR 1703), Free University Berlin

Germany