Sven Dupré appointed new Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Utrecht University professor Sven Dupré has been appointed the new Dean of the Faculty of Humanities. He succeeds Marieke de Goede, who has decided to continue her academic career.
The Utrecht professor of History of Art, Science and Technology has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). In addition to being a professor, he is now vice-dean of the same faculty in Utrecht (UU).
Artists
Sven Dupré (Ghent, 1975) has an interdisciplinary background. He conducts research and teaches in Utrecht at the intersection of (technical) art history and the history of knowledge and science. As part of a research project he carried out at the UU and the UvA, he was also a part-time professor at the UvA until last summer. In that capacity, he collaborated with artists and researchers in an EU Creative Europe project.
Dupré also holds various advisory positions. For example, he is a member of the Humanities Council of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and of the scientific committee of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW).
From 2011 to 2015, he worked as professor of History of Knowledge (Wissensgeschichte) at the Freie Universität Berlin and as director of the research group “Art and Knowledge in Premodern Europe” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Challenging times
Dupré is obviously delighted with his new job and responds enthusiastically. “Over the past ten years, I have had the opportunity to get to know this wonderful faculty with its highly regarded teaching and research, and the people responsible for it, and I consider it a privilege to be able to contribute to this as dean in the coming years. These are also challenging and uncertain times. I am very much looking forward to working with the faculty community to help strengthen the position of the university, and the humanities in particular, in society by seeking cooperation in Amsterdam and certainly also nationally.”
Dupré’s appointment will take effect on 1 May 2026 and will be for a period of four years.
