Associated Academics

Research and Teaching Associates

Professor Emeritus of the History of Art
 
Research Associate

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
Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra St Catherine's College Early photographic images and related texts from/of Ceylon/Sri Lanka
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

 

 

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

 

 

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
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
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