Biography
Naomi Oosterman is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage 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. Her research interests cover the illicit trade in arts and antiquities (with a particular focus on Latin America), the policing of art and heritage crime, and the concepts of critical heritage and coloniality and decoloniality. She is the editor (with Dr. Donna Yates, Maastricht University) of the volumes Crime and art: Sociological and criminological perspectives of crimes in the art world and Art Crime in Context. Currently she is working on a volume (with Camila Malig Jedlicki and Dr. Rodrigo Christofoletti) titled Negotiating decolonisation in Latin America: Colonial heritage, conflict, and contestation set to be published mid-2023.
Naomi teaches a wide range of courses on social sciences methods and supervises bachelor and master theses. 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 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).
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- oosterman@eshcc.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Art Crime - Oxford Bibliographies - doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195396607-0314 - [link]
- Naomi Oosterman & Donna Yates (2022) - Art crime in context - [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, 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 & 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]
- N (Naomi) Oosterman (25 februari 2022) - Dr. Naomi Oosterman over kunstcriminaliteit en de wereld die daarachter schuil gaat
- N (Naomi) Oosterman (12 januari 2022) - Collaboration to protect cultural heritage: 'For research on art crime we really need different disciplines'
- Naomi Oosterman (19 maart 2021) - Kunstcriminaliteit: Populaire verbeelding en werkelijkheid
- Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Elected Executive Committee Member Association of Critical Heritage Studies (External organisation)
- Camila Malig Jedlicki & Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Decolonisation of cultural heritage: changing narratives in Latin American and European museums
- Naomi Oosterman & Camila Malig Jedlicki (2022) - "In the narrow streets of the colonial walled city": Hegemonic heritage narratives of European colonial heritage in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Adaptive digital environments for qualitative research learning
- Delia Dumitrica & Naomi Oosterman (2022) - Developing successful digital learning resources for qualitative methodology
Methods of Qualitative Research
- Year Level
- Pre-master, BA-2, BA-2, BA-3, BA-3, BA-3, Pre-master
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CC2014
Social Science Research
- Year Level
- Pre-master, Pre-master, Pre-master
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CC1024
Master Thesis Class ACS
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CC4008
Master Thesis
- Level
- MA
- Year Level
- MA
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- CC4050