Suzie Hermán is a PhD student in Early Modern European art under the supervision of Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann at Princeton University. She is currently a guest researcher at Leiden University. Suzie studies art and architecture related to mercantile organizations in the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries such as the Hanseatic League and the Dutch East and West India companies. Further research interests include architecture, art collecting, historiography, collective identities, global networks, the relationship between art and trade, and the interaction between art, politics, and geography.

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Fields of interest

Suzie Hermán is a PhD student in Early Modern European art under the supervision of Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann at Princeton University. She is currently a guest researcher at Leiden University. Suzie studies art and architecture related to mercantile organizations in the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries such as the Hanseatic League and the Dutch East and West India companies. Further research interests include architecture, art collecting, historiography, collective identities, global networks, the relationship between art and trade, and the interaction between art, politics, and geography.

Research

Suzie is a PhD student at the Art & Archaeology department at Princeton University and currently a guest researcher at Leiden University. She graduated from the University of Amsterdam in 2012 with a research master Art Studies. Her thesis considered the patronage of Cardinal Tamás Bakócz (1442-1521) and its position in the historiography of the Hungarian Renaissance. She continued her research at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. Suzie obtained her BA in Art History and honors program degree Art, Science, and Practice at the University of Amsterdam and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She also has an interest in contemporary art and before coming to Princeton Suzie worked internationally as curator of exhibitions, art projects, and public programs.