Together with Shanade Barnabas and Manuela Ritondale, I co-convened this full-day workshop as a founding step toward establishing the Netherlands Chapter of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. Held at the University of Groningen, the event brought together scholars and practitioners from across the Netherlands to develop a shared agenda for critical heritage research. Keynote lectures by Hester Dibbits (Reinwardt Academy) and Cindy Zalm (Wereldmuseum Amsterdam) opened the conversation, followed by group discussions on how heritage spaces are shaped by — and in turn shape — social, cultural, and political relations.

Written for the journal Re:vize as part of a special issue on Women and Work, this public essay draws on my MSCA Post-doctoral research to explore what museums do — or fail to do — with the material legacy of dissolved female convents. When monasteries were secularized across Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, their sacred objects entered museum collections as supposedly gender-neutral artifacts. This essay asks what is lost when that happens, and whose history and work disappears with it.

This volume — the first comprehensive monograph on Conques’ monastery — charts the transformation of this extraordinary medieval site from a monastic center to a modern cultural heritage across nine centuries. I contributed a co-authored, peer-reviewed chapter on the medieval sacred landscape of the Conques monastery, examining how the surrounding territory was perceived, imagined, and represented in textual and material sources. The book is the principal outcome of the four-year MSCA Horizon project Conques in the Global World: Transferring Knowledge from Material to Immaterial Heritage (2020–2024), to which I was a contributing researcher.

Presented at Creating the Museum: Exploring the Museum Impulse in Local, Regional and National Contexts, a conference organised by the Museums and Galleries History Group and hosted at the National Gallery, London, on the occasion of its 200th anniversary. In this paper I examined how female convents were erased and reframed through their transformation into museum spaces, tracing three European case studies: the Monastery of Poor Clares in Prague (now part of the National Gallery in Prague), the former Monastery of San Salvatore in Brescia (now Museo di Santa Giulia), and the Essen Abbey (now the Essen Cathedral Treasury). Each case reveals a dual marginalisation — as religious institutions dissolved during secularisation, and as female-led spaces whose histories were displaced by gender-neutral or male-dominated museum narratives.

What do stock images of AI actually tell us about how we imagine data and the human body? In this collaborative article with Alberto Romele and Dario Rodighiero, I contributed to strengthening the art historical and methodological framework — bringing Panofsky’s iconology and Didi-Huberman’s symptomatic perspective to bear on a quantitative analysis of around 7,500 Shutterstock images. The result is a reading of these images not as mere illustration but as symptoms of a datafied worldview — one that ends with an unexpected observation about the dominance of blue.

Together with Andrew Irving, Shanade Barnabas, and Lidewijde de Jong, I co-convened this symposium as part of the Groningen Heritage Network, bringing together different disciplines engaging in heritage research — from archaeology and spatial sciences to environmental studies. I also presented my research on gendered aspects of museum collections and their histories. The event was organised in partnership with the Rudolf Agricola School’s Environmental Heritage Research Group and marked an important step in building a cross-disciplinary heritage community at the University of Groningen.

When female monasteries across Europe were dissolved during secularization in the 18th and 19th centuries, their objects and spaces entered a new process of heritage-making — one that systematically obscured their histories as women’s institutions. My MSCA project investigates this gendered history of museums and the collections they built from former female convents, asking how the dispossession of women’s ownership became embedded in the way these collections are displayed and interpreted today. Using the Essen Cathedral Treasury as a primary case study, I am developing the first transdisciplinary analysis of this collection from a gendered perspective, with the aim of proposing strategies for transforming how such collections are represented — applicable to similar institutions across Europe.

In this article I use the Liber Miraculorum sanctae Fidis — an 11th-century collection of miracle stories associated with the monastery of Conques — as a source for tracing medieval pilgrimage routes and exploring their heritage today. By mapping the precise geographical references in the text, I propose that the concentration of miracles and chapel foundations in the northeastern region of Conques was a deliberate monastic strategy to control the main arrival route of pilgrims. The article is accompanied by an interactive digital map I built myself, allowing users to explore the topographical and historical layers of the Liber Miraculorum and trace the routes it describes.

Together with Andrew Irving, I co-organized this two-day event — developing the concept, shaping the program, and inviting the speakers. The symposium took place at the University of Groningen, followed by a hands-on workshop I co-led at Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht. The event also served as an intensive course for PhD students, bringing together an international group of scholars to pose fresh questions about religious objects that have been permanently or temporarily musealized. Rather than focusing on the social and performative dimensions of museum space, we deliberately centred the discussion on the material aspects of the objects themselves — asking what happens to a sacred object when it becomes a museum artifact. Speakers included Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt), Alžběta Filipová (Brno/Tbilisi), Lieke Wijnia (Utrecht), Nathalie Cerezales (Paris), Hermine Pool (Amsterdam), and Liesbet Kusters & Ellen Descamps (Leuven).

As a pre-doctoral fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, I spent one year investigating the sacred landscape around the medieval pilgrimage site of Conques — combining close analysis of Latin hagiographical sources with material evidence, archaeological data, and embodied fieldwork in the landscape itself. The fellowship also included a six-month research visit at the Graduate Center, CUNY in New York. The project directly produced two peer-reviewed publications: a sole-authored article on digital heritage mapping of medieval pilgrimage routes, and a co-authored chapter in the volume Conques Across Time (2025). The research was conducted as part of the MSCA Horizon project Conques in the Global World: Transferring Knowledge from Material to Immaterial Heritage (2020–2024).

I co-edited this volume and contributed two sole-authored, peer-reviewed chapters, both focused on Mont-Saint-Michel. The first reconstructs the perception of medieval pilgrims arriving at the site through a close reading of 11th and 12th-century sources, with particular emphasis on the interconnectedness of nature and culture in that experience. The second examines relics, reliquaries, and statues at Mont-Saint-Michel and their role in the devotional life of the monastery. Both chapters grew directly out of the project’s core methodology: a 1500 km walk through medieval France undertaken by twelve scholars from Masaryk University, in which the experience of the pilgrim’s body — exhausted, attentive, moving through landscape — became a research instrument for rethinking how we read medieval art and sacred space.