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A University of York academic has co-produced a new exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of influential artist John Flaxman.

Jun Zhang has been awarded the 2026 BACS Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis on China by the BritishAssociation for Chinese Studies (BACS). The award recognises outstanding doctoral research onChina completed at a UK higher education institution and is one of the most prestigious accoladesfor early-career scholars in the field of Chinese Studies.

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Brown who has been elected to the Fellowship of the Corning Museum of Glass

Congratulations to Maddie whose dissertation was judged as one of the top three 2025 BA dissertations submitted to the Association for Art History (AAH) from across the country.

Congratulations to Parshati who has been awarded a Getty postdoctoral fellowship! Parshati was awarded her PhD in February this year, supervised by Richard McClary.

Richard McClary presented his paper "Medieval Kashan Ceramics: Mina'i and Lajvardina" at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi in Istanbul this week!

Professor Sarah Brown and Professor Christopher Norton's new book on the St William Window of York Minster has just been published, on the occasion of the 800th Anniversary of the Canonisation of St William of York.

The Department of History of Art has placed 8th in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026 for the subject of history of art, architecture and design. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities they provide to our students.