Associated Academics

Junior Research Fellows in History of Art

Dr Lia Costiner
Merton College

Dr Brigid von Preussen
Christ Church

In addition to the Core Academic Staff, the Department has a number of associated experts and specialists in all areas of art history from across the University. Reflecting the interdisciplinary ethos of the Department, many of the options available to History of Art students are drawn from courses offered by other Faculties and Departments in the University, and individual research can be supported by staff from a diverse range of subject areas.

Asia, Africa, Oceania and the Americas

Professor Walter Armbrust	Faculty of Oriental Studies	Mass media and popular culture in the Middle East
Professor Marcus Banks	Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology	Visual anthropology and ethnographic film
Dr Shailendra Bhandare	Ashmolean Museum	Indian numismatics
Dr Jeremy Coote	Pitt Rivers Museum	African and Polynesian art
Professor Alain George	Khalili Research Centre	Art and architecture in the early Islamic world
Professor Chris Gosden	School of Archaeology	Material culture and anthropology
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 Ros Holmes	Christ Church	Contemporary Chinese art and visual culture
Professor Jeremy Johns	Faculty of Oriental Studies	Islamic/Norman art
Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus	Ashmolean Museum	Indian art
Dr Francesca Leoni	Ashmolean Museum	Islamic art
Dr Clare Pollard	Ashmolean Museum	Japanese art
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson	School of Archaeology	Chinese archaeology
Ms Shelagh Vainker	Ashmolean Museum	Chinese and Korean art and artefacts
Dr Laura Van Broekhoven	Pitt Rivers Museum	Ethnohistory and museology
Dr Zeynep Yurekli-Gorkay	Faculty of Oriental Studies	Islamic art and archaeology

The Ancient Mediterranean

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

Medieval Europe

Mr Graham Barrett	Faculty of History	Language and literacy in early medieval Iberia
Dr Jessica Berenbeim	Magdalen College	Medieval art
Professor John Blair	Faculty of History	English architecture and decorative arts, 600 to 1500
Professor Helena Hamerow	School of Archaeology	Anglo-Saxon archaeology
Dr Martin Kauffmann	Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library	Medieval illuminated manuscripts
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
Dr Katharina Ulmschneider	School of Archaeology	The archaeology of Northwest Europe in the early Middle Ages, especially Anglo-Saxon England
Dr Julia Walworth	Merton College	lluminated manuscripts and illustrated books: Middle Ages to 18th century

Early Modern Europe

Dr Christina Anderson	Faculty of History/Ashmolean Museum	Collecting and the art market across all periods; the decorative arts; early modern trade and travel
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 Katie Jakobiec	Worcester College	Architecture of the central and eastern part of the European continent, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
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	Department for Continuing Education	The libraries of renaissance artists; renaissance art and architecture
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 Geoffrey Tyack	Kellogg College	Architecture in Oxford: 17th to 20th century
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

Dr Michael Biggs	St Cross College	Social movements and political protest
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
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
Professor Donna Kurtz	Wolfson College/Oxford eResearch Centre	World art, cultural heritage and public access to scholarly data
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 Otto Saumarez Smith	Lincoln College/Faculty of History	Architectural and urban history
Dr Sarah Simblet	Ruskin School of Art	Drawing, particularly the study of human anatomy
Dr Kate Tunstall	Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages	Literature and the visual arts
Dr Giovanna Vitelli	Ashmolean Museum	Early modern collecting; the ethics of stewardship
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