Hans J. Van Miegroet
Director, Professor of Art and Art History
Hans J. Van Miegroet was trained at the Higher Institute for Art History and Archaeology of the University of Ghent (Belgium) and received his Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is engaged in exploring Art & Markets at the interface of the humanities, social sciences, law and the sciences. He has adopted a scientific collaborative model to conducting research on emerging Art Markets, legal questions related to copyright and cultural heritage and visual culture as a commercial pursuit. This approach has made it possible to create, and sustain, a variety of new research strategies and modes of interpretation, attractive to scholars and students from the humanities, law, the natural sciences and the social sciences.
Neil de Marchi
Professor Emeritus of Economics
De Marchi specializes in both teaching and research that pertains to the history of economic ideas and the history of markets, and also the functioning of markets with a specific focus on art markets. De Marchi specializes in both teaching and research that pertains to the history of economic ideas and the history of markets, and also the functioning of markets with a specific focus on art markets. His works have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Econometrics, the European Journal for the History of Economic Thought, and the Art Bulletin.
Nubia Nurain Kahn
Research Assistant, PhD Student
Nubia Nurain Kahn is a 1st year Ph.D. student in Art History specializing in Early Modern Art Markets under the supervision of Professor Hans J. Van Miegroet. After completing her B.A. in Art History in Bangla Desh, Nubia earned her M.A. in the History of Art at Louisiana State University under supervision of Professor Darius Spieth. She has been a part of the Duke Law and Markets Initiative (DALMI) research consortium as a research assistant since Fall 2022.