I am currently Assistant Professor (Universitair Docent) in the Arts and Culture Department of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. In this role I have designed and co-ordinated core modules across various BA and MA level programmes, including Museum Studies, Heritage and Memory Studies, and Art and Performance Research. I also designed the electives Contemporary Art and the Anthropocene (BA) and Rethinking Sustainability In and Through Arts and Culture (MA).
In May 2022 I was named Lecturer of the Year for the Faculty of Humanities as part of a university wide competition organised by students.
In May 2023 I became Programme Coordinator of the interdisciplinary BA Global Arts, Culture and Politics.
I have supervised around 35 Masters level dissertations on various subjects related to heritage, museums, art and ecology.
I am currently supervising 5 PhD candidates working on ecological reparations, care and repair in museums, ecosystemic transformations in the cultural sector, memory and identity, and critical interactive museum experiences.
I am available to supervise doctoral research in the following areas:
- Critical heritage studies and heritage theory
- Heritage, museums and the Anthropocene
- Museological responses to the climate crisis
- Heritage and photography
- Creative heritage practice and the arts
- Immersive and experiential approaches to heritage interpretation
- Ecological and posthumanist perspectives on heritage and museums
Colin Sterling 