Colonial history

• Sabine Cornelis, Doctor of Philosophy and Letters (Archaeology and Art History), head of section.
  Subjects: Africa-Europe (the West) cultural contacts (especially Belgium-DRC), DRC cultural history, present and past arts and society, colonial art, representations of Africa, culture and sustainable development, collections and research
  Areas covered: DRC, Europe
  Disciplines: history/art history (archaeology)
• Patricia Van Schuylenbergh, Doctor of History
  Subjects: colonial history, history of sciences, environment and natural resources, history of national parks, visual and audiovisual representation, historical archives, history of cinema, social memory of colonists.
  Areas covered: DRC, Rwanda, Burundi
  Disciplines: history, environmental history, development
• Wulf Bodenstein, history of cartography course at Utrecht University, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
  Subjects: old cartography of Africa
  Areas covered: Africa, Central Africa
  Disciplines: history of cartography 
• Bambi Ceuppens, Doctor of Social Anthropology
  Subjects: Congolese diaspora in Belgium, social memory of the colonial era in Belgium and in DRC, colonial and post-colonial Congolese popular culture, colonial heritage, Western representations of Africa and Africans, autochtony, multiculturalism and interculturalism
  Areas covered: Belgium, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi
  Disciplines: anthropology and colonial history
• Maarten Couttenier, Master of History, Doctor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
  Subjects: colonial histoire, history of sciences, histoire of human sciences (anthropology, ethnography, history, prehistory and archaeology), museum studies, museums in DRC
  Areas covered: DRC, Europe
  Disciplines: history, anthropology
• Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi,  Doctor of History
  Subjects: colonial and post-colonial history of Africa, history of exploration, representations of Africa
  Areas covered: sub-Saharan Africa, DRC
  Disciplines: history, anthropology