Dr. Corien J.M. Vuurman is a photo-historian and history teacher (Middle Eas/Asia) at the HAN-University of Applied Sciences in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is the author of several articles on western photography in Iran. She published in 2011 the book 'Nineteenth-century Persia in the Photographs of Albert Hotz: Images from the Hotz Photograph Collection of Leiden University Library and in 2015 'Fascinatie voor Persepolis. Europese perceptie van Achaemenidische monumenten in schrift en beeld, van de veertiende tot het begin van de twintigste eeuw' (Fascination for Persepolis. European perception of Achaemenid monuments in writing and illustrations, from the fourteenth till the beginning of the twentieth century).

Nineteenth century photography of Iran and Middle East

Lecturer in History (Middle East/Asia), HAN-University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, Holland