We have a wide range of people affiliated with the Department of History of Art.
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Professor Tim Ayers
Professor
Research interests:
- British art, 1200-1540
- Stained glass
- Medieval art and education
- Medieval art and kingship
Susie Beckham
Assessments Administrator
Dr James Boaden
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Modern and contemporary
- Photography and film
- Gender and sexuality
- American art
Professor Sarah Brown
Professor
Research interests:
- Stained glass
- Medieval and medievalism
- Conservation history and practice
Dr Marjorie Coughlan
YAHC Administrator
Professor Jason Edwards
Professor
Research interests:
- The visual and material culture of South Asia, 1526-1947
- Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh court painting
- Long-Nineteenth-Century photography in Asia
- Queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Imperial scupltural pantheons at St Paul's Cathedral and York Minster
Sarah Finch
Head of Faculty Operations (HFO)
Zoe Fraser
Administration Manager
Professor Anthony Geraghty
Professor
Research interests:
- Architectural history
- English Baroque architecture
- Christopher Wren
- Architecture and intellectual history
Dr Theo Gordon
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Jake Jarvis
Administration Coordinator
Dr Richard Johns
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- British art 1650-1850
- Modern British art
- JMW Turner
- Ceramics
Stephanie King
Postgraduate Administrator
Dr Ivan Knapp
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Dr Richard McClary
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Islamic art market (1850-2024)
- Islamic ceramics - Iran & Central Asia
- Medieval Islamic architecture
- Stucco in the Islamic world
- Looting, faking and forgeries
Dr Jeremy Melius
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Modern British art
- Modern art
- Art writing
- Historiography and theory
- Gender and sexuality
Dr Vera Mey
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Art curating
- Modern and Contemporary art
- Asian art
- Anticolonial/Postcolonial/
Decolonial theory and practice - Cold War era studies
Emily Moore
Deputy Student Services Manager
Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein
Professor
Research interests:
- Religion
- Materials
- Scientific imagery
- Late Medieval/Renaissance/Early Modern
- Northern Europe (Germany and low countries)
Research interests:
- Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art
- Receptions of Ancient and Renaissance art
- Aesthetics and art criticism
Dr Jessica Richardson
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern
- Arts of Italy, 1200–1550
- Materiality and the agency of matter
- Magic and miracles
- The performance of script
Dr Erhan Tamur
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Ancient Western Asian art
- Museum studies
- Art Historical and Archaeological theory
- Politics of archaeology
- Theory and practice of decolonisation
Professor Cordula van Wyhe
Professor of Art History
Research interests:
- Dress and fashion history and theory
- Rubens
- Seventeenth-century Low Countries
- Material culture
- Habsburg court culture
Dr Hanna Vorholt
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Histories of the book
- Manuscripts
- Medieval
- Art and science
- Environmental humanities
Professor Michael White
Head of Department
Research interests:
- Modern and contemporary art
- Critical theories of the avant-garde
- Art Law