Arvi Wattel
Arvi Wattel received his education from the Radboud University Nijmegen and is a lecturer in the History of Art at UWA (School of Design). Before moving to Perth, he was awarded grants from the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund and Dr Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, was a visiting fellow at the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University, held fellowships at the Fondazione Ermitage in Ferrara, the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Gesellschaft) in Florence, the Dutch Institute for Art History in Florence and the Royal Netherlandish Institute in Rome. He previously lectured at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the University of Maastricht and for Oberlin College in Arezzo. His research focuses on questions of centre and periphery, marginalization and alterity in Renaissance Italy and a global perspective, particularly in Dutch seventeenth-century encounters with Australia and Asia.