Associated Academics

The Department of History of Art has associated experts and specialists in all areas of art history. This reflects the interdisciplinary ethos of the Department, and many of the options available to History of Art students are drawn from courses offered by other faculties and departments in the University of Oxford. Please view the subject areas below for more details.

Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Professor Walter Armbrust	Faculty of Oriental Studies	Mass media and popular culture in the Middle East
Dr Shailendra Bhandare	Ashmolean Museum	Indian numismatics
Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra	St Catherine's College	Early photographic images and related texts from/of Ceylon/Sri Lanka
Professor Clare Harris	Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology/Pitt Rivers Museum	Tibet, Himalayas and South Asia: art and artefacts
Professor Dan Hicks	School of Archaeology/Pitt Rivers Museum	Archaeology of the Modern period, especially in Northern America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, as well as the UK
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus	Ashmolean Museum	Indian art
Dr Francesca Leoni	Ashmolean Museum	Islamic art
Dr Clare Pollard	Ashmolean Museum	Japanese art
Ms Shelagh Vainker	Ashmolean Museum	Chinese and Korean art and artefacts
Dr Laura Van Broekhoven	Pitt Rivers Museum	Ethnohistory and museology

The Ancient Mediterranean

Professor John Baines	Faculty of Oriental Studies	Egyptian art and architecture
Professor Jas Elsner	Corpus Christi College	Classical and Late Antique art and architecture
Professor Chris Howgego	Ashmolean Museum	Greek and Roman coins
Dr Helen Whitehouse	Faculty of Oriental Studies/Ashmolean Museum	Egyptian art and artefacts

Medieval Europe

Professor John Blair	Faculty of History	English architecture and decorative arts, 600 to 1500
Dr Karl Kinsella	Lincoln College	Medieval architecture
Professor John Nightingale	Faculty of History	Carolingian Renaissance
Dr Janina Ramirez	Department for Continuing Education	Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, Manuscript Illuminations, iconography and symbols

Early Modern Europe

Professor Malcolm Bull	Ruskin School of Art	Art theory and Renaissance art
Professor Nicholas Halmi	Faculty of English	Enlightenment and Romantic art and architecture, esp. classical reception and neoclassicism
Dr Jim Harris	Ashmolean Museum	Late Medieval and Renaissance sculpture
Dr Stephen Johnston	Museum of the History of Science	The history of science, scientific instruments and museum collections
Dr Matthew Landrus	Wolfson College	Intersections of the practical arts and natural philosophy, specifically artist/engineers, 14-18th centuries
Dr Manya Pagiavla	Continuing Education	The readings and writings of the intellectual artists in the Renaissance; the Classical Revival in art and architecture from the Renaissance to the 19thc
Dr David Parrott	Faculty of History	Court culture and art in Early Modern Europe, 1580-1700
Professor Lyndal Roper	Faculty of History	Early modern German material and visual culture
Ms Jacqueline Thalmann	Christ Church Picture Gallery	European art and architecture: 14th to 20th century
Dr Colin Thompson	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages	Literature and painting of the Spanish Golden Age
Dr Emanuela Vai	Worcester College	Renaissance art and architectural history, musicology
Dr Malcolm Vale	St John’s College	Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento, 1420-80
Ms An Van Camp	Ashmolean Museum	Northern European Prints, Drawings and Paintings
Professor Catherine Whistler	Ashmolean Museum	Italian Renaissance and Baroque art
Professor Timothy Wilson	Ashmolean Museum	European decorative and applied arts: Middle Ages to the present

19th century - Contemporary

Professor Brian Catling	Ruskin School of Art	Contemporary practice
Dr Allan Doig	Lady Margaret Hall	18th-20th century architecture, theology and the arts
Dr Reidar Due	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages	European cinema
Professor Carolin Duttlinger	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages	20th century German literature and thought with visual culture
Dr Stefano Evangelista	Faculty of English	Aestheticism and decadence, reception of classics in the 19th century, gender and sexuality
Dr Lena Fritsch	Ashmolean Museum	Modern and contemporary art; the Ashmolean’s post-1945 Western art collections
Professor Jason Gaiger	Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art	Modern and contemporary art theory and practice; aesthetics and the philosophy of art
Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra	St Catherine's College	Early photographic images and related texts from/of Ceylon/Sri Lanka
Professor Anthony Gardner	Ruskin School of Art	Postcolonialism, postsocialism and curatorial histories
Professor Jane Garnett	Faculty of History	Intellect and culture in Victorian Britain
Mr Colin Harrison	Ashmolean Museum	18th and 19th Century European art
Professor John Hyman	Faculty of Philosophy	Aesthetics and philosophy of art
Ms Julie Anne Lambert	John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library	British Printed Ephemera and Political Cartoons: 18th to mid 20th century
Dr Derek McCormack	School of Geography and the Environment	Human geography
Dr Ben Morgan	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages	German film
Dr Claire O'Mahony	Department for Continuing Education	History of art and design, specialising in 19th and early 20th century Europe
Dr Maryanne Saunders Dr Sarah Simblet	Lincoln College Ruskin School of Art	Modern and contemporary art; religious art Drawing, particularly the study of human anatomy
Dr Kate Tunstall	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages	Literature and the visual arts
Professor William Whyte	Faculty of History	Architecture in Oxford: 19th century to the present
Dr Matthew Winterbottom	Ashmolean Museum	19th century European sculpture and decorative arts