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
- oosterman@eshcc.eur.nl
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Work
- Camila Andrea Malig Jedlicki & Naomi Oosterman (2024) - Decolonial Approaches and Narratives in Latin America and the Caribbean and European Museums - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37748-8_13
- Naomi Oosterman & Cara Grace Tremain (2024) - Are archaeologists talking about looting?: Reviewing archaeological and anthropological conference proceedings from 1899 - 2019 - International Journal of Cultural Property - doi: 10.1017/S0940739124000080
- Naomi Oosterman & Fernanda Rodriguez Rodriguez (2024) - The crime of the century?: An exploratory study into indicators of art theft - doi: 10.4324/9781003363804-13 - [link]
- Naomi Oosterman & Donna Yates (2023) - De handhaving van erfgoedcriminaliteit in Latijns-Amerika - Cahiers Politiestudies, 69 (4), 65-85 - [link]
- Camila Andrea Malig Jedlicki, Naomi Oosterman & Rodrigo Christofoletti (2023) - Colonial heritage, power, and contestation: Negotiating decolonisation in Latin America and the Caribbean - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-37748-8 - [link]
- Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Art Crime - Oxford Bibliographies - doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0314
- Naomi Oosterman & Donna Yates (2022) - Art crime in context - doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-14084-6
- Naomi Oosterman & Donna Yates (2021) - Introduction - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-84856-9_1
- Naomi Oosterman, Simon Mackenzie & Donna Yates (2021) - Regulating the Wild West: Symbolic Security Bubbles and White Collar Crime in the Art Market - Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 7-15 - doi: 10.1177/2631309X211035724
- Naomi Oosterman & Donna Yates (2021) - Crime and Art: Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-84856-9
- 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