Scholars working on History of Art and Visual Culture at Oxford

(Associated academics across the collegiate University; current Department staff are marked *)

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

*Professor Craig Clunas

History of Art Department

Chinese art

Dr Jeremy Coote

Pitt Rivers Museum

African and Polynesian art

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

Professor Michael O'Hanlon

Institute of Social and Cultural

Anthropology/Pitt Rivers Museum

Papua New Guinea and Melanesia: Art and artefacts

Professor Laura Peers

Institute of Social and Cultural

Anthropology/Pitt Rivers Museum

North American Indian artefacts: 16th century to present

Dr Clare Pollard

Ashmolean Museum

Japanese art

Professor Dame Jessica Rawson

School of Archaeology

Chinese archaeology

Dr Andrew Topsfield

Ashmolean Museum

Indian painting and sculpture

Ms Shelagh Vainker

Ashmolean Museum

Chinese and Korean art and artefacts

Professor Oliver Watson

Faculty of Oriental Studies

Islamic art and architecture

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

Dr Jane Massglia

Faculty of Classics

Greek/Roman art and archaeology

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

Dr Emily Guerry

Merton College

Gothic architecture, iconography, and wall painting

Professor Helena Hamerow

School of Archaeology

Anglo-Saxon archaeology

Dr Martin Kauffmann

Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library

Medieval illuminated manuscripts

The Ancient Mediterranean

Medieval Europe

Professor John Nightingale

Faculty of History

Carolingian Renaissance

Dr Cathy Oakes

Department for Continuing Education

Romanesque art and architecture, and the interrelation of word and

image in western medieval culture

Dr Janina Ramirez

Department for Continuing Education

Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, Manuscript Illuminations, iconography

and symbols

*Professor Gervase Rosser

History of Art Department

Medieval and Early Modern art

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

Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated books: Middle Ages to 18th

century

Dr Christina Anderson

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 Hanneke Grootenboer

History of Art Department

Early Modern European art, 1400-1800

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

*Professor Geraldine Johnson

History of Art Department

Early Modern European art; history of sculpture; history of

photography; art and gender

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 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

Early Modern Europe

Dr Geoffrey Tyack

Kellogg College

Architecture in Oxford: 17th to 20th century

Dr Malcolm Vale

St Johns College

Flanders and Italy in the Quattrocento, 1420-80

*Dr Matthew Walker

History of Art Department

Architectural history, especially Early Modern

Dr Michael Waters

Worcester College

Italian Renaissance architecture

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

*Dr Miriam Brusius

History of Art Department

History of photography (19th century)

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

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

*Dr Jennifer Johnson

History of Art Department

French painting 1850-1930; French and British Modernism;

Deconstruction; materiality and theatricality in painting and literature

Professor Donna Kurtz

Wolfson College/Oxford eResearch Centre

World art, cultural heritage and public access to scholarly data

19th century - Contemporary

Ms Julie Anne Lambert

John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library

British Printed Ephemera and Political Cartoons: 18th to mid 20th

century

Dr Julia Langbein

Trinity College

French art of the 19th 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

*Professor Larry J Schaaf

History of Art Department/Bodleian Library

History of photography (William Henry Fox Talbot)

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 Linda Whiteley

Department of the History of Art

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century European art

Dr Matthew Winterbottom

Ashmolean Museum

19th century European sculpture and decorative arts

*Professor Alastair Wright

History of Art Department

European Modernism of the later 19th and 20th centuries