Reader in the History of South Asian Art & Archaeology Dr Crispin Branfoot Architecture, sculpture and painting in South Asia, especially in southern India; pilgrimage, sacred geography; material religion; histories of archaeology, conservation and collecting.
Professor of the History of Islamic Art Professor Anna Contadini Arab and early Persian painting and the arts of the Islamic book in general, including the production of manuscripts of the Qur'an; art and material culture of the Islamic world; Fatimid art and architecture; the arts of Islamic Spain; artistic contacts between the Islamic World and Europe; aspects of contemporary Islamic art.
Professor of Archaeology Professor Graeme Earl Archaeological Computing; Digital Humanities; Human Computer Interaction
Lecturer in the Arts of Japan Dr Monika Hinkel Japanese woodblock prints, Contemporary reworkings and interpretations of Ukiyo-e, Meiji nostalgia
Reader in the History of Korean Art Dr Charlotte Horlyck Visual and material culture of the Korean peninsula; Pre-modern Korean burial practices, particularly of the Koryŏ period (AD918-1392); Arts of the Koryŏ period, especially bronze mirrors and ceramics; 20th century collecting of Korean artefacts; Heritage and museum practices; Gender and material culture.
Lecturer in Contemporary Art Dr Richard Hylton Researching various aspects of contemporary art practice and display within the international arena including Diasporic art, African American art in the international arena, Black British artists, politics of curating, the role of art criticism, the relationships between contemporary art, ethnography, and the western museum.
Lecturer in Curating and Museology Dr Maria Kostoglou critical museum studies; artefact studies; heritage crafts; objects, place and identity; Mediterranean archaeology; sustainable archaeological collection management; museums and social justice.
David L. Snellgrove Senior Lecturer in Tibetan and Buddhist Art Dr Christian Luczanits Premodern Indian and Tibetan Buddhist art and its context
Percival David Professor of the History of Art Professor Shane McCausland Pictorial arts of China - especially painting and calligraphy; arts of the Mongol world; East Asian narrative art; canons, collecting and connoisseurship; Chinese art and modernity
Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art & Senior Lecturer in Arts Education Dr Malcolm McNeill Object based learning; museology; curation and display; the art market; Chinese visual and material culture; Buddhist visual and material culture
Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art Dr Stephen A Murphy Curating, museology, and history of collections, especially in Southeast Asia and Asia more generally; debates surrounding the decolonising of museums. Buddhist and Hindu art and archaeology of Southeast Asia, especially Thailand and Laos. Indian Ocean World maritime networks and shipwrecks.
Senior Lecturer in the History of Architecture & Archaeology of the Islamic Middle East Dr Simon O'Meara Islamic architecture and urbanism; sociological dimensions of the art and architecture of North Africa, especially Morocco; architectural and visual theory; Islamic studies.
Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics Professor Stacey Pierson History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting and display
Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology Professor Scott Redford Islamic art, archaeology, and architecture of the medieval (11th-14th) period in the central and eastern Islamic lands.
Lecturer in the Art History of Africa Dr Polly Savage History of African Art; Modern and contemporary art and curating in Africa, Brazil and the Caribbean, with particular focus on Haiti and Lusophone Africa; art and the Cold War in Africa; art education and cultural policy; post-colonial theory and trans-national exhibition practice.
Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art Professor Ashley Thompson Southeast Asian arts, aesthetics, literatures and cultural histories, with a focus on Cambodia, from the Angkorian to the post-Angkorian to the contemporary; Theravadin Buddhist arts, literatures and ritual; cultural heritage; sexual difference; deconstruction; memory and textuality.
Professor of Curating and Museology Professor Louise Tythacott Chinese and Buddhist art in museums; history of Yuanmingyuan (or ‘Summer Palace’) collections; museology; colonialism and material culture; post-colonial critiques of museum representations; history and theory of collecting; art and anthropology.
Lecturer in the Arts and Visual Cultures of Modern China Dr Panpan Yang Arts and visual cultures of China and the Sinophone world; cinematic arts; animation and digital media; art theory; medium and materiality; cultural flows.
Dr Elaine Buck Art and archaeology of ancient and medieval China and the steppe and silk roads with a focus on religious art.
Senior Teaching Fellow Ms Beth McKillop Korean art history - especially ceramics, manuscripts and printed books
Dr Peter D. Sharrock He is now focusing on the evidence in Indochina for the influence of tantric or esoteric Buddhism, developed in the great monasteries of the Ganges valley and diffused and developed in different ways through much of Asia.
Emeritus Professor Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif Architecture of Cairo, the art and archaeology of Turkey, Iran and the Near East
Dr Heather Elgood, MBE Dr Heather Elgood is the Course Director of the Diploma in Asian Art. She is a specialist in Persian, Jain, Sultanate and Mughal manuscript painting as well as the ritual arts of Hinduism.
Emeritus Reader Dr Geoffrey R D King Islamic art and archaeology in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE and Oman; late antiquity, Umayyads, Abbasids, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Emeritus Professor Professor Elizabeth Moore Arts of Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia cultural landscape; pre- and proto-historic Myanmar, Pyu and Mon culture; visual culture, social memory and sacred landscape
Dr Youngsook Pak Korean art history (from prehistory to the 20th century), Buddhist art, Confucian elite and its culture, Text and Images
Professor John Picton The art and archaeology of Nigeria, masquerade, textile history, 20th-century transformations in the visual culture of sub-Saharan Africa
Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Professor Timon Screech History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century; history of science in Japan; the theory of art history
Dr Valerie Gonzalez Islamic art history, aesthetics and visual culture. Phenomenology of artworks, cognitive processes, and issues of conceptualisation of visual forms in Islam. Relation between theory and practice in Islamic artistic creation.
Rosalind Wade Haddon Islamic art, archaeology and history in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq and Yemen; ceramics and their role as trade indicators.
Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr Shiori Hiraki History of art, history, visual and material culture in early modern Japan.
Dr Farouk Yahya Southeast Asian art, Islamic art, illustrated and illuminated manuscripts and books, magic and divination.
