
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- oosterman@eshcc.eur.nl
Profile
Naomi Oosterman is a permanent lecturer at the Department of Arts and Culture Studies and an affiliated researcher of the research group Heritage under Threat; part of the Centre for Global Heritage and Development. She was awarded a highly competetive doctoral studentship by City University of London for her self proposed PhD research titled Policing the art world: Contradictions in international and national perspectives. She completed her dissertation in 2019. Her research specialisations are the policing of art and heritage crime, the illicit trafficking of arts and antiquities, and the sociology of deviance in general. She is the editor (with Dr. Donna Yates, Maastricht University) of the volume Crime and art: Sociological and criminological perspectives of crimes in the art world which brings together innovative theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions from social scientists on the topic of art and heritage crime. Currently, she is co-editing (with Dr. Donna Yates) the volume Art crime in context: Global perspectives on art and heritage crime which is set to be published in 2022.
At the Department of Arts and Culture Studies, she is the coordinator and principle lecturer for courses on social science methods and cultural policy. In 2021, together with Dr. Delia Dumitrica (Department of Media and Communication) she was awarded a Comenius Senior Fellowship for the project Adaptive digital environments for qualitative research learning. The projects centers around the development and use of Digital Learning Objects to foster and strengthen students' knowledge and skills concerning methods of qualitative research.
Naomi is furthermore the coordinator of the Bachelor Graduation Project and Master Thesis Class, and supervises bachelor and master thesis students. She has several teaching qualifications, obtained from universities in the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. She has been an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) since 2017.
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 the Department of Sociology at City, University of London (2014-2019).
- Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Art Crime - Oxford Bibliographies - doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0314 - [link]
- 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, 1-9 - 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 & Francesco Angelini (2021) - One flew over the cuckoo's clock: Selling exclusivity through conspicuous goods on Evolution - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-84856-9_16
- Naomi Oosterman (2020) - Policing art crime - [link]
- Naomi Oosterman & D Yates (2020) - Policing heritage crime in Latin America - Revista de Direito Internacional, 17 (3), 275-290 - doi: 10.5102/rdi.v17i3.7030
- Naomi Oosterman (2019) - From canvas to ashes. Understanding the implications of the Westfries Museum and Kunsthal thefts for the Dutch art world - doi: 10.4324/9781351026826 - [link]
- Naomi Oosterman (2019) - Regional overviews of the policing of art crime in the European Union - doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-54405-6 - [link]
- Laura Braden & Naomi Oosterman (2018) - World systems and the art world: A case study of Tibetan art in the Netherlands in Transcultural Perspectives - Cultural Trends, (Special Issue Collecting Tibet) - [link]
- 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
Social Science Research
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master
- Course Code
- CC1024
Methods of Qualitative Research
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- Pre-master, BA-2, BA-2, BA-3, BA-3, BA-3, Pre-master
- Course Code
- CC2014
Bachelor's Thesis
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master, BA-3, Pre-master
- Course Code
- CC3000
Bachelor Graduation Project
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master, BA-3, Pre-master
- Course Code
- CC3003
Cultural Lifestyles and Participation
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-2, Other, BA-2, BA-3, BA-3
- Course Code
- CC3072
Master Thesis Class
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CC4008
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- MA
- Course Code
- CC4050
Introduction to Cultural Policy
- Year
- 2021
- Year Level
- BA-1, Pre-master
- Course Code
- CC1006