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• In partnership between Utrecht University, Museum Catharijneconvent, Platform Klimaat & Erfgoed and Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, we have obtained a NWO (National Science Foundation) grant within the NWA (National Science Agenda) program, for a two-year research project titled Collecting (for) Eternity?/ Het Eeuwige Bewaren? The project explores alternatives for the notion of the “eternal” in museum collection practices, in the light of climate change and collection ethics towards future generations. The project runs between summer 2025 – summer 2027.
• Since 2025 I serve on the editorial board of the Dutch Review of Books (De Nederlandse Boekengids).
• Since 2023 I am part of the editorial board of the Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (NKJ/ DeGryter Brill).

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• The volume “Museums as Ritual Sites. Civilizing Rituals Reconsidered“, which I edited together with James Bielo (Northwestern University), was published in the fall of 2024. The volume brings together scholars and curators to critically reflect upon Carol Duncan’s influential book “Civilizing Rituals” (1995) and provide it with an update that reflects the state of the art of the museum world and the academic field of museum studies. 
• Between 2021-2023 I co-taught the BA courses Museum Studies and Heritage Studies at University College Utrecht.
• In the wake of the 2019 conference on religious heritage,  prof. Todd Weir and I edited the The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Heritage in Contemporary Europe. The Handbook contains 42 contributions by authors from across Europe and beyond. It was published online (open access) in 2023, and hardcopy in 2024.
• In the research project “Art Pilgrimage: Aesthetic Journeys, Transformative Tracks”, I conducted research during the Amsterdam edition of Art Stations of the Cross. It explored the link between art (display), religious heritage, and pilgrimage. The first article within the context of this project was published by the International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, the second by the Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Kerkgeschiedenis (see publications page). The project was generously supported by the Sormanifonds and with a Cotter Scholarship from Gladstone’s Library.
• For a variety of platforms, I researched the religious and spiritual dimensions in the paintings and writings of Piet Mondrian. In this context, the notion of sight plays a crucial role. This research was awarded the inaugural Postdoctoral Award of the Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Hornby Island (June 2018).
• Together with dr. Naomi Billingsley (University of Manchester) I founded the Visionary Artists, Visionary Objects international research network, at the end of 2017. In Februari 2018 we organized an expert-meeting in Manchester.
• Throughout 2018-2019 I worked as coordinator for the international conference Religious Heritage in a Diverse Europe, organized by University of Groningen’s Centre for Religion and Heritage and the Groningen Historic Churches Foundation, in partnership with Museum Catharijneconvent, Future for Religious Heritage (Brussels), and the Jewish Cultural Quarter.
• During the spring semesters of 2016-2019, I worked as a lecturer at Tilburg University College, teaching the second-year BA course “Visual Arts in the Public Sphere.”
• I wrote an essay collection titled In Pursuit of the Sacred: The Museum as Laboratory in the Contemporary Quest for God. This essay collection was awarded with the 2017 gold honorary medal of the Teylers’ Theological Society (March 2018).
• In the winter months of 2017-2018 I spent a visiting fellowship at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana, where I worked with Prof. dr. Aaron Rosen. This fellowship was supported by the Catharina van Tussenbroek fund and Rocky Mountain College.
• During Spring 2017, I received a Faculty scholarship, of the RUG Faculty for Theology and Religious Studies, to deliver a NWO-VENI proposal. This proposal made it to the final/ interview stage.