Associated Academics
Research and Teaching Associates
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Professor Emeritus of the History of Art
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Professor Emeritus of the History of Art
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Visiting Marie Curie Fellow in the History of Art Department and Research Associate at Corpus Christi College 2019-20
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Research Associate
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Associated Academic
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.
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |