Research students
Our many postgraduate researchers enhance the intellectual diversity and vitality of the Department.
Their work spans all of the Department's academic specialisms, and many are engaged in research at leading museums and galleries.
York Summer Theory Institute
Our annual summer event celebrates postgraduate research.
Over five days postgraduate students from all over the world meet and develop new perspectives on the year's chosen theme.
Our students
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Cristina Alfonsin Barreiro |
The Vulliamy workshop at Pall Mall – 100 years of creating luxury in London
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Haifa Alkthiri |
The Question of Identity in the Life and Career of Mohammed Al-Saleem (1967-1997)
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Dareen Alorflly |
21, 39 Jeddah Art: The influence of cultural identity, education, and globalism on contemporary art in Saudi Arabia (2013-present)
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Lauren Beck |
Moral Allegories and Gendered Spaces: Representing Women in Strasbourg Cathedral
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Susie Beckham |
Reassessing the Pre-Raphaelite label (1848-2022)
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Martin Brook |
Charles Rutherston - The North of England's forgotten modernist pioneer? A case study into the collection and reception of modern art in the North of England, c.1900-1945
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Richard Burrows |
Reinterpreting Kazimir Malevich’s Planity Series and Arkhitektony Experiments
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Nigel Burt |
The Two ‘Authors’ of Work: Ford Madox Brown and Thomas Edward Plint
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Amélie Castellanet |
The Haptic Sense in the Dada movement
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William Mead Cheek |
Anglo-Saxon architectural sculpture in its social, aesthetic, and theological context
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Francisco Camacho-Herrera |
Enduring Associations: The Art of Alter-Communities
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Clara Cheung |
A Comparative study of the representations of Hong Kong, Malaysian and Singaporean Art (Art of the Commonwealth states in South-East Asia) over international exhibition platforms from 1960s to early 1980s
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Jordan Cook |
Settings and Subjects in Early Netherlandish Painting
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| Helena Cox PhD |
The Impact of British Art in Bohemia/Czech Lands around 1900
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| Leila Danesh PhD |
The Development of Mihrab Design and Ornamentation in the Central and West Asia: Circa 7th to 14th Centuries
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| Kathryn Davies PhD |
Reinstating Mrs Jameson: revolutionary iconographer and Revival shaper
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| Caitlin Doley PhD |
Beyond Superficial Senescence: Art and Old Age in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
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| Nicholas Dunn-McAfee PhD |
‘Venus surrounded by mirrors, reflecting her in different views': uncertain desires and aesthetic uncertainties in D. G. Rossetti’s double-works
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| Parshati Dutta PhD |
Enabling Feminist Readings of History Through Architecture
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Alexander Echlin |
The Architecture of Lord Burlington reconsidered
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Dawn Faizey Webster |
To what extent did the architecture of the early modern grammar school affect, impede or complexify its formal educational and broader social learning functions?
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George Field |
Do works of art produced on the island of Capri between 1850 and 1945 share unifying principles besides subject, style and national origin?
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Georgia Gerson |
The Hall of Mirrors: A re-assessment of value making practices in the contemporary art market through the lens of NFTs
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Izabella Gill Brown |
British Victorian Busts
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Eliza Goodpasture |
Female Friendship Among English Artists at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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| Suzanne Heskin PhD |
Reforming Female Autonomy: Fifteenth Century Sisters of the Franciscan Observant Reform in the Upper Rhine
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Nausheen Hoosein |
From Umayyad Madinat al-Zahra to Almohad Seville: The Reuse of Caliphal Capitals in the Twelfth Century
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Abi Jubb |
The Sized Body: The British Women’s Fashion Industry Production of the Modern Middle Class Consumer circa 1870-1930.
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| Sarah Kemp MA by Research |
The influence of trade, textiles, and patronage on the early portraiture of Thomas Gainsborough from his Ipswich period.
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| Stephen Kerr PhD |
The impetus provided by the Ernst-May-Siedlungen housing projects in Frankfurt during the Weimar Republic to the development of dweller-designed domestic interiors in Modernist mass-housing.
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Catherine Khatsenkova |
The Performing Body: Sexuality, Identity, and Nostalgia in Ballet and Theatre in the Works of the Neo-Romantics, 1923-1972
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| Midori Kono PhD |
Descriptiveness and Decorativeness: The Style and Reception of Full-length, Life-sized Portraits by James McNeill Whistler
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| Peter Kos PhD |
Bartholomeus Spranger’s Mythological Paintings: Gender Play in Rudolfine Prague
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| Alyson Lai PhD |
German Expressionism and the Aporia of Time, c.1900-c.1925
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Sarah Lear |
Designs in coloured light: The religious stained glass iconographies of Karl Parsons (1884-1934)
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Man Li |
‘Peach Blossom Spring’ and ‘Great Unity’: the Representation of Utopia in Contemporary Chinese Art after 1978
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Pepper Li |
Beyond Black and White: a comparative study of German Expressionist and Chinese Modernist woodcut prints during the interwar period
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Sam Love |
Glamour, English Art, and the Re-Enchantment of High Society, 1918-39
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| Layla Lozano PhD |
Early British Women Travellers to Ravenna and Their Impact Upon Early Studies of Byzantine Art
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| Sammi Lukic-Scott PhD |
The Novelty of Reproduction: Translating Fine Art into Two-and-a-Half-Dimensions in the Long Nineteenth Century
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| Eduardo de Maio PhD |
A study of the phenomenon of the influence of English Pre-Raphaelitism in Italy on criticism, but especially on art.
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Peter Molloy |
From Ritual to Rapture: representations of the quest myth in mid-Victorian illustration.
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Kim Newell |
Shifting patterns of taste and identity through iconographic analyses of mid-Victorian ceramics
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Isaac Nugent |
Simulating antiquity: Monochrome faux antique façade painting from a cross European perspective (1530-1630)
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Katerina Perdiki |
A cross-cultural examination of late medieval circular world maps from the western and eastern traditions
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| Natalia Polunina |
Reflections of European Medieval Revival styles in Russian nineteenth-century architecture
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| Candace Reilly PhD |
The Giant, The Christ Child, and The Holy Ritual: The Sacramental Roles and Adaptive Functions of St Christopher Imagery in England c.1200-1500
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Adrian Robbins |
A Different View of Turner: Private Collectors, Agnew's and the Art Market, 1852-1906
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| Giulia Schirripa PhD |
Body and Words: the assimilation of Carla Lonzi’s theory in the work of Simona Weller, Suzanne Santoro, Marinella Senatore, and Claire Fontaine
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| Gemma Shearwood PhD |
Commemorating Imperialism in Eighteenth-Century Westminster Abbey
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| Chris Sheldon PhD |
The Persistence of Modernity; Railways Art and Relativity’
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Elena Sinagra |
Women’s collectives in 1970s Italy: the use of mythology and antiquity in their artistic practices |
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Michael Smith |
John Flaxman: art, design and the intermedial body
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Ruth Spindlow |
Conversations in Stone: The Narratives of York Minster’s Post-Reformation Memorial Sculptures
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Helen Sutcliffe |
An Ecological Art History: The Seventeenth-Century Cloth Industry and the Environment in the Low Countries |
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Susan Thale |
Research topic: Re-threading the Modernist Grid in the Work of Bice Lazzari and Carlo Scarpa
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Leah Tharpe |
Mining (in) the gap: Nineteenth Century Traveller-Artists in the Anglo-Prone Frontier
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Greg Tiani |
Camp-ulsive Beauty: Freak Reconfigurations of Surrealism in American Queer Photography (1985-2016)
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Robyn Valentine |
'Convent Thoughts': Community and Religion in the Works of Charles Allston Collins.'
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Zhixuan Wang |
The afterimages of a deceased dynasty: The circulation of late Qing photography in the age of decolonisation
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Elizabeth Waring |
'Most Women have no Characters at all': Gender and Agency in Godfrey Kneller’s Portraits of Women 1676-1723
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Eleanor Wilson |
Self-Fashioning and International Artistic Patronage of Merchants in Pre- and Post- Reformation London: The Merchant Taylors 1400-1610
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Yuxuan Xiao |
The Privately Founded Contemporary Art Museum’s Social Responsibility and Cultural Function in China
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Wen Yao |
An in-depth analysis of Stella Snead’s paintings, photographs and photomontages, contextualized within her connection to the wider art world in a transnational and comparative perspective
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Jun Zhang |
Contemporary Artworks Based on Chinese Characters Since the 85 New Wave
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Wei Zhang |
The World, Maps and Geographic Imagery in Children's Pictorials of Modern China, 1902-1936
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Xinrui Zhang |
Ecosystems in Contemporary Art in China: Participation and Engagement, 1995-2019
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