Staff | Department of the History of Art & Archaeology at SOAS University of London

Dr Crispin Branfoot

Reader in the History of South Asian Art & Archaeology

Architecture, sculpture and painting in South Asia, especially in southern India; pilgrimage and sacred geography; material religion; colonialism and material culture.

Tel: 020 7898 4450
Email: crispin.branfoot@soas.ac.uk
Room: B311
Academic Support Hours: Monday 2-3pm or by email appointment

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.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4458
Email: ac24@soas.ac.uk
Room: B306
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Dr Pamela Corey

Lecturer in South East Asian Art

Modern and contemporary art and critical theory; Southeast Asian art history and visual studies (expertise in Vietnam and Cambodia); urban studies; postcolonial studies; theories of subjectivity, space, diaspora, transnationalism, intermedia and aesthetics.

Tel: 0207 898 4452
Email: pc50@soas.ac.uk
Room: B318
Academic Support Hours: On sabbatical 2018/2019

Dr Heather Elgood, MBE

Course Director of the Diploma in Asian Art

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.

Tel: 020 7898 4445
Email: he2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B310
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 2-5pm or by email appointment

Dr Charles Gore

Senior Lecturer in the History of African Art

Modern and contemporary arts of Africa, including its histories of photography; visual and material cultures of West Africa, and their linkages to diasporic arts past and present; the arts of the Benin kingdom, masquerade, textiles and other art forms in southern Nigeria, as well as a particular focus on contemporary arts in Nigeria.

Tel: 020 7898 4443
Email: cg2@soas.ac.uk
Room: B402
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 2-3.30pm

Dr Charlotte Horlyck

Senior Lecturer in the History of Korean Art

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.

Tel: 020 7898 4704
Email: ch10@soas.ac.uk
Room: B403
Academic Support Hours: Term 1: Mon, 3.30-5pm; Terms 2&3: Tue, 4-6pm

Dr Jaeho Kang

Senior Lecturer in Critical Media and Cultural Studies

Critical Theory; Media Theory; Aesthetics; Art, Technology and Politics; Media Spectacle and Urban Space in East Asian Cities; Screen Culture and Media Art in Korea; Mega-Events in the Global South

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4585
Email: jk71@soas.ac.uk
Room: 510
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 5-6 pm & Thursdays 5-6 pm

Dr Maria Kostoglou

Lecturer in Curating and Museology (Education)

Curating archaeological collections; university museums and curriculum reform; heritage interpretation; artefact and material culture studies; ancient metalwork; archaeology of the 1st millennium BC eastern Mediterranean

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4406
Email: mk124@soas.ac.uk
Room: B319
Academic Support Hours: Term 1 - Wednesdays, 5-6pm

Dr Christian Luczanits

David L. Snellgrove Senior Lecturer in Tibetan and Buddhist Art

History of art and architecture of the Himalayan region; Buddhist art of the western Himalayas; Gandharan art; presenting and exhibiting Buddhist art; heritage, preservation and conservation.

Tel: 020 7898 4162
Email: cl46@soas.ac.uk
Room: B407
Academic Support Hours: Friday 10am-12pm

Professor Shane McCausland

Percival David Professor of the History of Art, Head of Department

Pictorial arts of China - especially painting and calligraphy; East Asian narrative art; canons, collecting and connoisseurship; Chinese art and modernity

Tel: 020 7898 4705
Email: HoD_SoA@soas.ac.uk (sm80@soas.ac.uk)
Room: B304
Academic Support Hours: Tuesday 10:30-12:00

Dr Simon O'Meara

Lecturer in the History of Architecture & Archaeology of the Islamic Middle East

Islamic architecture and urbanism; sociological dimensions of the art and architecture of North Africa, especially Morocco; architectural and visual theory; Islamic studies.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4559
Email: so20@soas.ac.uk
Room: B406
Academic Support Hours: Fridays, 5-6pm

Dr Stacey Pierson

Reader in the History of Chinese Ceramics

History and production of Chinese ceramics; history and theory of collecting; Museum Studies.

Tel: 020 7898 4441
Email: sp17@soas.ac.uk
Room: B308
Academic Support Hours: Term1:On sabbatical;Term 2:Tues 2-4 (14:00 -16:00)

Professor Scott Redford

Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology

Art, archaeology, and architecture of Anatolia, the eastern Mediterranean, and SW Asia from the 11-14th centuries with a special interest in landscape, urbanism, and ceramics

Tel: 020 7898 4469
Email: sr63@soas.ac.uk
Room: B303
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays, 3-5pm

Professor Timon Screech

Professor of the History of Art

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4453
Email: ts8@soas.ac.uk
Room: B408
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 2-3 (14:00-15:00)

Professor Ashley Thompson

Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art

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.

Tel: 020 7898 4130
Email: at50@soas.ac.uk
Room: B301
Academic Support Hours: Wednesday 4-5pm (16:00-17:00)

Dr Tania Tribe

Senior Lecturer in Art History

Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art with special reference to Northeastern Africa

Tel: 020 7898 4462
Email: tt10@soas.ac.uk
Room: B406
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 5-7pm (17:00-19:00)

Dr Louise Tythacott

Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art

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.

Tel: 020 7898 4159
Email: lt15@soas.ac.uk
Room: B320
Academic Support Hours: by appointment (e-mail)

Dr Fiona Buckee

Research Associate & Temporary Lecturer in South Asian Art