About
Maggie Mansfield, Ph.D. is new to the University of Michigan and the Residential College. She is a scholar of early modern European Art History with a particular focus on the Dutch both in the Netherlands and their global exchange through the East and West India Companies. Her current scholarship focuses on the Dutch perception of South Asia and the ways Christian Europeans came to understand and depict Hindu deities and religious rituals. More broadly she is interested in the visual, material, textual, and culinary cultural exchange between Northern Europe and South Asia in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. She has published a chapter in an edited volume on the use of technology in the early modern history classroom, featuring a pedagogical simulation she created in which students enact the seventeenth-century Dutch art market.
In the Arts and Ideas in the Humanities Department, Maggie looks forward to teaching classes on the history of museums and collecting, social media prior to digital technology, the global history of food and feasting, the “age of discovery, and a variety of other topics in the history of art and material culture.
