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K/281
Research interests:
- British art, 1200-1540
- Stained glass
- Medieval art and education
- Medieval art and kingship
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V/N/132
Research interests:
- Modern and contemporary
- Photography and film
- Gender and sexuality
- American art
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/history-of-art/Sarah Brown 1-218x145.jpg)
K/G83
Research interests:
- Stained glass
- Medieval and medievalism
- Conservation history and practice
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V/N/232
Research interests:
- The visual and material culture of South Asia, 1526-1947
- Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh court painting
- Long-Nineteenth-Century photography in Asia
- Queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Imperial scupltural pantheons at St Paul's Cathedral and York Minster
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Research interests:
- Architectural history
- English Baroque architecture
- Christopher Wren
- Architecture and intellectual history
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Research interests:
- British art 1650-1850
- Modern British art
- JMW Turner
- Ceramics
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Research interests:
- Islamic art market (1850-2024)
- Islamic ceramics - Iran & Central Asia
- Medieval Islamic architecture
- Stucco in the Islamic world
- Looting, faking and forgeries
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Research interests:
- Modern British art
- Modern art
- Art writing
- Historiography and theory
- Gender and sexuality
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Research interests:
- Art curating
- Modern and Contemporary art
- Asian art
- Anticolonial/Postcolonial/
Decolonial theory and practice - Cold War era studies
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jeanne.nuechterlein@york.ac.uk
V/N/240
Research interests:
- Religion
- Materials
- Scientific imagery
- Late Medieval/Renaissance/Early Modern
- Northern Europe (Germany and low countries)
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V/N/233
Research interests:
- Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art
- Receptions of Ancient and Renaissance art
- Aesthetics and art criticism
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Research interests:
- Ancient Western Asian art
- Museum studies
- Art Historical and Archaeological theory
- Politics of archaeology
- Theory and practice of decolonisation
![](https://www.york.ac.uk/static/data/images/schools/staff-imported/history-of-art/Cordula Van Wyhe 218px.jpg)
Research interests:
- Dress and fashion history and theory
- Rubens
- Seventeenth-century Low Countries
- Material culture
- Habsburg court culture
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Research interests:
- Histories of the book
- Manuscripts
- Medieval
- Art and science
- Environmental humanities
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V/N/239
Research interests:
- Modern and contemporary art
- Critical theories of the avant-garde
- Art Law