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Departmental officers

Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Modern and contemporary art
  • Critical theories of the avant-garde
  • Art Law

Chair of the Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Religion
  • Materials
  • Scientific imagery
  • Late Medieval/Renaissance/Early Modern
  • Northern Europe (Germany and low countries)

Deputy Head of Department

Research interests:

  • British art 1650-1850
  • Modern British art
  • JMW Turner
  • Ceramics

Chair of Graduate Studies

Research interests:

  • Architectural history
  • English Baroque architecture
  • Christopher Wren
  • Architecture and intellectual history

Research Programmes Director

Research interests:

  • Modern and contemporary
  • Photography and film
  • Gender and sexuality 
  • American art 

Head of Admissions

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

Deputy Head of Admissions

Research interests:

  • Ancient Western Asian art
  • Museum Studies
  • Art Historical and Archaeological theory
  • Politics of archaeology
  • Theory and practice of decolonisation

 

Examinations Officer (taught programmes)

Research interests:

  • Modern British art
  • Modern art
  • Art writing
  • Historiography and theory
  • Gender and sexuality

Exceptional Circumstances Chair and Disability Officer

Research interests:

  • Art curating
  • Modern and Contemporary art
  • Asian art
  • Anticolonial/Postcolonial/Decolonial theory and practice
  • Cold War era studies 

Director, York Art History Collaborations (YAHCs)

Research interests:

  • Dress and fashion history and theory
  • Rubens
  • Seventeenth-century Low Countries
  • Material culture
  • Habsburg court culture