Professor
Research and teaching focus: early modern art and cultural studies, specializing in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic and its colonial empire.
Vanhaelen is the recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the Getty Research Institute, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Fonds Qu茅b茅cois de la Recherche sur la Soci茅t茅 et la Culture. Her book (Penn State University Press, 2012) was awarded the in 2013. A new book, has been published by Penn State University Press (2022). Engaged in overlapping programs of research, Vanhaelen鈥檚 work is attentive to the mobilization of artistic technologies in the histories of globalization, colonization, urbanization, religious conflicts, and the power dynamics of gender, sexuality, race, and class in the seventeenth century.
Publications and Programs of Research
Early Modern World Making: Colonial and Anti-Colonial Practices
Book Manuscript (in progress)
Making Black Worlds: Black Lives against Transatlantic Slavery in the Art of the Dutch Republic
Co-edited Book
. Co-edited with Bronwen Wilson. UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series, University of Toronto Press, in production, 2022.
Co-edited Journal Issue
. Special issue of Journal of Early Modern History. Volume 23, Issues 2-3, May 2019. Co-edited with Bronwen Wilson.
Articles and Chapters
- 鈥淧lantation Worldscape: Landscape as Enslaved Labour in Colonial Dutch Brazil,鈥 commissioned chapter in Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures, edited by Sarah Mallory, K茅la Jackson, Rachel Burke, Joanna Seidenstein. Under contract with Brill, 2023.
- 鈥,鈥 Journal of Early Modern History 23:2-3 (May 2019): 227-56.
- 鈥,鈥 Art History 35:5 (Nov. 2012): 1004-1023.
- 鈥Local Sites, Foreign Sights: A Sailor鈥檚 Sketchbook of Human and Animal Curiosities in Early Modern Amsterdam,鈥 RES: Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics 45 (Spring 2004): 256-72.
- , New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2015. The Art Bulletin, vol. 98, no. 3 (Sept. 2016): 397鈥9.
Grants & Fellowships
Principal investigator, , SSHRC Insight Grant, 2021-2026; SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2011-14; SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (UC Berkeley), 1999-2000
Conferences organized
- Making Worlds Core Program, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies & William Andrews Clark Memorial Library:
- The Art of Peace: Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts鈥 new Pavilion for Peace / L鈥橝rt de la paix: Peintures hollandaises et flamandes au nouveau Pavillon pour la paix du Mus茅e des beaux-arts de Montr茅al, 2017
Art and Technology: Automata, Cities, and Power
Book
. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2022.
Articles and Chapters
- 鈥Strange Things for Strangers: Automata and Transcultural Encounters in Early Modern Amsterdam,鈥 The Art Bulletin 103:3 (September 2021): 42-68.
- 鈥淭urnings: Motion and Emotion in Labyrinths of early modern Amsterdam.鈥 Performing Conversion: Cities, Theatre and Early Modern Transformation, ed. Jos茅 R. Jouve-Martin and Stephen Wittick. Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 35-61. Award: Honorable mention for the 2022 Stevens Award from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society for best new essay in early drama research
- , University of Chicago Press, 2013. Times Higher Education.
Grants
SSHRC Insight Grant, principal investigator, 2015-2022; SSHRC Individual Standard Research Grant, 2011-14; SSHRC Partnership Grant, co-applicant, 2013-17
Making Publics: Art, Iconoclasm, and Religious Conflict
Book
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.
Co-edited Book
Co-edited with Joseph P. Ward. New York and London: Routledge, 2013.
Articles and Chapters
- 鈥.鈥 The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age, ed. Helmer Helmers and Geert Janssen. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 225-246. (translated edition: 鈥淪pirituele kunst en cultuur.鈥 De Zeventiende Eeuw, ed. Helmer Helmers, Geert Janssen and Judith Noorman, Leiden University Press, 2021, 290-311. Cambridge University Press, 2018. Translated by Frits van der Waa.)
- 鈥淐alvinism and Visual Culture: The Art of Evasion.鈥 Cultures of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe, ed. Graeme Murdock and Crawford Gribben. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 138-158.
- 鈥淧ainting the Visible Church: The Calvinist Art of Making Publics鈥 in Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance, Geography, Privacy, Routledge, 2013, 223鈥240.
- 鈥淩eligion Inside Out: Dutch House Churches and the Making of Publics in the Dutch Republic.鈥 Co-authored with Steven Mullaney and Joseph Ward in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe. People, Things, Forms of Knowledge, edited by Paul Yachnin and Bronwen Wilson. Routledge, 2010, 25鈥36.
- 鈥,鈥 Oxford Art Journal 31:3 (2008): 361-81.
- 鈥Utrecht鈥檚 Transformations: Claiming the Dom through Representation, Iconoclasm and Ritual,鈥 De Zeventiende Eeuw 21 (December 2005): 354-74.
- 鈥,鈥 The Art Bulletin 87: 2 (June 2005): 249-64.
Interview
鈥.鈥 Episode 5 of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio series 鈥淭he Origins of the Modern Public,鈥 produced by David Cayley for the CBC program Ideas. April 30, 2010.
Grants, Fellowships, Awards
- Invited Guest Scholar, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Theme: Iconoclasm, 2018
- Roland H. Bainton Book Prize for The Wake of Iconoclasm
- Visiting Research Scholar, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2007-2008
- SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative, co-applicant, 2005-2010; SSHRC Individual Standard Research Grants, 2002-2005; 2005-2008; FQRSC Programme d'茅tablissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs, 2004-2007
Gender, Sexuality, and Private Life
Book
Comic Print and Theatre in Early Modern Amsterdam: Gender, Childhood and the City. Aldershot, England and Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003.
Co-edited Journal Issue
. Special issue of Art History. Volume 35, Issue 5, November 2012. Co-edited with Bronwen Wilson.
Articles and Chapters
- 鈥淰ermeer鈥檚 Secret Sphere: The Privations of Private Life,鈥 commissioned chapter in Handbook of Early Modern Privacy, ed. Mette Birkedal Bruun and Sari Nauman. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
- 鈥.鈥 Foreword, special issue, 鈥淏odily Privacy,鈥 European Data Protection Law Review 6:3 (2020): 346-51.
鈥溾楯an moet zitten spinnen, wiegen, want Griet heeft hem overmant.鈥 Seksestrijd in de Jan de Wasserprenten鈥 (鈥溾楯an must sit spinning and rocking, because Griet has the upper hand.鈥 The Battle of the Sexes in the Jan de Wasser 笔谤颈苍迟蝉鈥). Sekse. Een Begripsgeschiedenis (Sex. The History of a Concept), ed. Myriam Everard and Ulla Jansz. Jaarboek voor Vrouwengeschiedenis / Yearbook of Women鈥檚 History 38 (2018): 40-56.- 鈥,鈥 Art History 35:5 (Nov. 2012): 874鈥85 (co-authored with Bronwen Wilson).
- 鈥,鈥 History Compass 10: 9 (Sept. 2012): 652-66.
- 鈥淧ublic and Private Intercourse in Dutch Genre Scenes: Soldiers and Enigmatic Women / Painters and Enigmatic Paintings.鈥 Forms of Association: Making Publics in Early Modern Europe. Eds. Paul Yachnin and Marlene Eberhart. U Massachusetts Press, 2015, 115-132.
- 鈥淪tories about the Gallows Field: Power and Laughter in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam.鈥 Power and the City in the Netherlandic World, 1000-2000, edited by Wayne ter Brake and Wim Klooster. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2006, 176鈥204.
- 鈥淒utch Culture and the Politics of Difference.鈥 Review of Wayne Franits, Paragons of Virtue and Els Kloek et al, eds., Women of the Golden Age. RACAR 21: 1-2 (1994), 137-43.
Teaching and Supervision
Professor Vanhaelen鈥檚 teaching overlaps with her research interests. She offers courses on early modern art and visual culture, historiography, methodology, and theory. She supervises graduate and postdoctoral students who specialize in early modern art and visual culture (1500-1700).
Selected Graduate Seminars
- Making Worlds. Art, Materiality and early modern Globalization
- Caravaggio, Caravaggisti, Caravaggio-mania: Painting the Destruction of Painting
- The Moving Image
- Advanced Pro-Seminar: Historiography and Methodology
- Between Worlds: Visual Strategies and Cross-cultural Mediations
- Boredom
- Making Publics / Producing Spaces
- The Disenchantment of Vision
- Iconoclasm and the Re-formation of Art
- Print and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
- The Visual Culture of Everyday Life
PhD Supervisions (graduates)
Isabelle Masse, 鈥淢茅dium du portrait, portrait du m茅dium. Les sp茅cificit茅s historiques du pastel dans le long XVIIIe si猫cle鈥 (2019)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
- Dora Wiebenson Prize, awarded by the Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture, 2017
Tomasz Grusiecki, 鈥淕lobalizing the Periphery: Poland-Lithuania and Cultural Entanglement, 1587鈥1668鈥 (2017)
- Associate Professor of Art History, Boise State University
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Central European University, Budapest
- Emerging Scholars Prize, awarded by the Historians of German, Scandinavian and Central European Art, 2017
Liana Bellon, 鈥淪ouvenirs of Venice: Reproduced Views, Tourism, and City Spaces鈥 (2016)
- Faculty member, Department of English, Dawson College, Montreal.
Sonia Del Re, 鈥淩e-forming Images: Caravaggism in Utrecht and Half-Length Single-Figured Genre Imagery鈥 (2014)
Anuradha Gobin, 鈥淩epresenting the Criminal Body in the City: Knowledge, Publics and Power in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic鈥 (2014)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of East Anglia, UK
Leah Clark, 鈥淰alue and Symbolic Practices: Objects, Exchanges, and Associations in the Italian Courts (1450-1500)鈥 (2009)
- 平特五不中 Faculty of Arts 鈥淎rts Insight Dissertation Award鈥
- K.B. Jenckes Award for outstanding 平特五不中 graduate in the Social Sciences and Humanities