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KASTEEL Well Staff Profiles

Dulcia Meijers has been the Director/Executive Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands, since 1992. Ms. Meijers graduated from the University of Nijmegen with an M.A. in Art History and Classical Archeology and a Ph.D. in the Architectural History of Italian/Venetian palaces from the late Renaissance and Baroque period. In addition to many scholarly articles, Ms. Meijers is co-author (with B. Aikema) of the book Nel Regno dei Poveri. Arte e storia dei Grandi Ospedali veneziani in eta moderna, 1474-1797(1989), and author of De gouden schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de achttiende eeuw (1991). She has consulted with the city architects of Venice, Italy, on restoration projects, conducting archival research and art historical analysis of historically important buildings. In 1988 Ms. Meijers curated a retrospective exhibition of the artist Peter Goldschmidt (1923-1987) at the Museum of Rijswijk, and in 1991 she curated for the Historical Museum of Amsterdam the loan exhibition De Gouden Schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de Achttiende eeuw. She is a member of the Board of Editors of the scholarly periodical Het Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and secretary and treasurer of the foundation "Collection Mos" for the stimulation and development of the study and research of Italian Art in European context. Since 1986 Ms. Meijers has taught many courses at Kasteel Well in the areas of European Studies and Civilization, European Cultural History, and European Art History.
Chester Lee is the Assistant Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He graduated with his B.A. (Hons.) in World History from Chinese University of Hong Kong and has since studied, lived and traveled in different continents. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Media Studies and Cross-cultural Communications from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His academic interest lies in the area of anti-Semitism, xenophobia and the implementation and promotion of multicultural tolerance in a global perspective.
Rob Dückers is Assistant Director for Administration and Management for the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He studied Art-History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and Codicology at the University of Leiden. In 1998, he received an honours-degree in Art-History from the Radboud University, Nijmegen. His specialist fields are manuscript illumination, especially from the so-called Upper-Quarter of the Duchy of Guelders (i.e. present-day North-Limburg in the Netherlands) and medieval church-treasures. He regularly publishes and lectures on these subjects. He taught and did research at the Radboud University, Nijmegen for over three years and was invited by Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, to curate the internationally acclaimed exhibition "The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court, 1400-1416", which was held in 2005 and showed loans from museums all over the world, amongst others the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museé du Louvre, Paris, the Vatican Library, Rome, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. At present, he is curating two more exhibitions, to be held in 2008 and 2009. Apart from his duties at Kasteel Well, he is writing his doctoral dissertation on two paraliturgical manuscripts from Maastricht and is also curator of the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in that town, which has the finest collection of medieval and postmedieval ecclesiastical art in situ in the Netherlands.
Robbert van Helsdingen is the Students Affairs Coordinator at Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well. He graduated from the Fontys Sporthogeschool in Tilburg and has worked as a PE teacher at several secondary schools in the Netherlands. He studied Cultural Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, where he specialized in film and literature. In 2008 he received his degree (M.A.) as the result of his study of the 16th century pamphlets written by Robert Greene (1560-1592).

Dulcia Meijers has been the Director/Executive Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands, since 1992. Ms. Meijers graduated from the University of Nijmegen with an M.A. in Art History and Classical Archeology and a Ph.D. in the Architectural History of Italian/Venetian palaces from the late Renaissance and Baroque period. In addition to many scholarly articles, Ms. Meijers is co-author (with B. Aikema) of the book Nel Regno dei Poveri. Arte e storia dei Grandi Ospedali veneziani in eta moderna, 1474-1797(1989), and author of De gouden schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de achttiende eeuw (1991).

She has consulted with the city architects of Venice, Italy, on restoration projects, conducting archival research and art historical analysis of historically important buildings. In 1988 Ms. Meijers curated a retrospective exhibition of the artist Peter Goldschmidt (1923-1987) at the Museum of Rijswijk, and in 1991 she curated for the Historical Museum of Amsterdam the loan exhibition De Gouden Schemer van Venetie. Een portret van de Venetiaanse adel in de Achttiende eeuw.

She is a member of the Board of Editors of the scholarly periodical Het Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and secretary and treasurer of the foundation "Collection Mos" for the stimulation and development of the study and research of Italian Art in European context. Since 1986 Ms. Meijers has taught many courses at Kasteel Well in the areas of European Studies and Civilization, European Cultural History, and European Art History.

Chester Lee is the Assistant Director of Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He graduated with his B.A. (Hons.) in World History from Chinese University of Hong Kong and has since studied, lived and traveled in different continents. He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Media Studies and Cross-cultural Communications from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His academic interest lies in the area of anti-Semitism, xenophobia and the implementation and promotion of multicultural tolerance in a global perspective.

Rob Dückers is Assistant Director for Administration and Management for the Emerson College European Center at Kasteel Well, the Netherlands. He studied Art-History at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and Codicology at the University of Leiden.

In 1998, he received an honours-degree in Art-History from the Radboud University, Nijmegen. His specialist fields are manuscript illumination, especially from the so-called Upper-Quarter of the Duchy of Guelders (i.e. present-day North-Limburg in the Netherlands) and medieval church-treasures. He regularly publishes and lectures on these subjects.

He taught and did research at the Radboud University, Nijmegen for over three years and was invited by Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, to curate the internationally acclaimed exhibition "The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court, 1400-1416", which was held in 2005 and showed loans from museums all over the world, amongst others the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museé du Louvre, Paris, the Vatican Library, Rome, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

At present, he is curating two more exhibitions, to be held in 2008 and 2009. Apart from his duties at Kasteel Well, he is writing his doctoral dissertation on two paraliturgical manuscripts from Maastricht and is also curator of the Treasury of the Basilica of Saint Servatius in that town, which has the finest collection of medieval and postmedieval ecclesiastical art in situ in the Netherlands.

Robbert van Helsdingen is the Students Affairs Coordinator at Emerson College's European Center at Kasteel Well. He graduated from the Fontys Sporthogeschool in Tilburg and has worked as a PE teacher at several secondary schools in the Netherlands. He studied Cultural Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, where he specialized in film and literature. In 2008 he received his degree (M.A.) as the result of his study of the 16th century pamphlets written by Robert Greene (1560-1592).