dr. N (Naomi) Oosterman

Biography

Naomi Oosterman is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies, and Cluster Manager of the research group Heritage under Threat; part of the Centre for Global Heritage and Development. Her research interests are the illicit trade of arts and antiquities (with a particular focus on Latin America), the policing of art and heritage crimes, and contested and colonial heritage. She has published widely on these topics. She is the editor (with Dr. Donna Yates) of the volumes Crime and art: Sociological and criminological perspectives of crimes in the art world and Art Crime in Context, which were the first volumes dedicated to the sociological and criminological study of art and heritage crimes. In 2024, she published the volume (with Camila Malig Jedlicki and Dr. Rodrigo Christofoletti) Colonial heritage, conflict, and contestation: Negotiating decolonisation in Latin America which explores, among other things, the relationship between the illicit trafficking of cultural objects and decolonial thought. With Liselore Tissen (Leiden/Delft University) and Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba (Rijksacademie) she developed and worked on the project 3D reproduction methods in contested heritage that explores the possible uses of 3D printing of cultural objects in restitution and repatriation debates. Currently, she is the PI of the LDE Global Initiative project titled Policing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects: A pilot in Argentina, which examines decision-making processes and attitudes of public policing actors in the policing of art and heritage crimes. 

She has consulted for several public organisations, including the European Commission, ICF and the International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) of which she is also a member of the Illicit Trafficking Working Group. She has been an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies since December 2022, and has been elected and appointed Vice-President of Research Chapters as of June 2024. She is the co-lead of the research chapter dedicated to Latin America and the Caribbean of the same association.

Naomi teaches courses on social science methods, coordinated the Bachelor Graduation Project, co-coordinates the Master Thesis Class, and supervises master theses. She is one of the developers of the joint Leiden-Delft-Erasmus minor Authenticity and Art Crime: Methods, Materials, and the Market, in which she developed, and currently coordinates, the course Crime and Disruption in the Art Market

Naomi Oosterman studied Social Work (BA, 2010, cum laude) at the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam; Arts and Culture Studies (MA, 2013) at Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Social Research (MA, 2014) at Goldsmiths, University of London. She completed her PhD in Criminology at City, University of London (2014-2019).

Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication

Assistant professor | Department of Arts and Culture Studies
Email
oosterman@eshcc.eur.nl

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Work

  • Naomi Oosterman (29 April 2023) - Kopzorgen voor het museum: Wat te doen met een gestolen schedel?
  • N (Naomi) Oosterman (25 February 2022) - Dr. Naomi Oosterman over kunstcriminaliteit en de wereld die daarachter schuil gaat
  • N (Naomi) Oosterman (12 January 2022) - Collaboration to protect cultural heritage: 'For research on art crime we really need different disciplines'
  • Naomi Oosterman (19 March 2021) - Kunstcriminaliteit: Populaire verbeelding en werkelijkheid

  • Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2024) - Do digital resources alleviate learning anxieties? (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Naomi Oosterman & Delia Dumitrica (2024) - Leren met digitale materialen: Het studentenperspectief (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Naomi Oosterman (2024) - Association of Critical Heritage Studies (External organisation) (Chair)
    Activity: Membership of board Academic
  • Naomi Oosterman (2024) - Looted art: A question of decolonisation and identity (Speaker)
    Activity: Invited talk Academic
  • Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2024) - Do digital resources alleviate learning anxieties? (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2023) - Qualitative analysis teaching and learning: A few pedagogical principles for designing digital learning objects (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Professional
  • Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2023) - Comenius Festival 2023 (Participant)
    Activity: Attending an event Professional
  • Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2023) - Innovating qualitative analysis teaching and learning: a few pedagogical principles for designing digital learning objects (Speaker)
    Activity: Oral presentation Academic
  • Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2023) - Comenius Festival 2023 (Organiser)
    Activity: Organising and contributing to an event Professional
  • Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Elected Executive Committee Member Association of Critical Heritage Studies (External organisation) (Member)
    Activity: Membership of committee Academic

Qualitative Methods

Year Level
BA-2, BA-2, BA-3, BA-3, BA-3, Pre-master
Year
2024
Course Code
CC2014

Crime and Disruption in the Art Market

Level
Minor Authenticity and Art Crime (LDE)
Year Level
Minor Authenticity and Art Crime (LDE)
Year
2024
Course Code
CC9014

Bachelor Graduation Project

Year Level
Pre-master, Pre-master, BA-3, Pre-master
Year
2024
Course Code
CC3003

Master Thesis

Level
MA
Year Level
MA
Year
2024
Course Code
CC4050

Social Science Research

Year Level
Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
Year
2024
Course Code
CC1024

Master Thesis Class ACS

Level
MA
Year Level
MA
Year
2024
Course Code
CC4008

News regarding dr. N (Naomi) Oosterman

LDE Global Support Grant for Naomi Oosterman

LDE Global Support Grant for project: “Identification of irregular archaeological features in northern South America forest using Remote Sensing methods”
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Surveying policing efforts of art and heritage crime in Latin America

Dr Naomi Oosterman publishes article in Cahiers Politiestudies on the policing of art and heritage crime in Latin America.

Naomi Oosterman in NRC: "Putting up signs in museums is not enough"

Naomi Oosterman has been interviewed by NRC to talk about decolonisation in museums.
Portrait picture of Naomi Oosterman

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