We have a wide range of people affiliated with the Department of History of Art.
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Our people
Professor Tim Ayers
Professor
- tim.ayers@york.ac.uk
- K/281
Research interests:
- British art, 1200-1540
- Stained glass
- Medieval art and education
- Medieval art and kingship
Dr James Boaden
Senior Lecturer
- james.boaden@york.ac.uk
- V/N/132
Research interests:
- Modern and contemporary
- Photography and film
- Gender and sexuality
- American art
Professor Sarah Brown
Professor
- sarah.brown@york.ac.uk
- K/G83
Research interests:
- Stained glass
- Medieval and medievalism
- Conservation history and practice
Professor Jason Edwards
Professor
- jason.edwards@york.ac.uk
- V/N/232
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
Professor Anthony Geraghty
Professor
Research interests:
- Architectural history
- English Baroque architecture
- Christopher Wren
- Architecture and intellectual history
Dr Richard Johns
Senior Lecturer
- richard.johns@york.ac.uk
- 01904 322960
- V/N/133
Research interests:
- British art 1650-1850
- Modern British art
- JMW Turner
- Ceramics
Dr Richard McClary
Senior Lecturer
Research interests:
- Islamic art market (1850-2024)
- Islamic ceramics - Iran & Central Asia
- Medieval Islamic architecture
- Stucco in the Islamic world
- Looting, faking and forgeries
Dr Jeremy Melius
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Modern British art
- Modern art
- Art writing
- Historiography and theory
- Gender and sexuality
Dr Vera Mey
Lecturer
- vera.mey@york.ac.uk
- 01904 321909
- V/N/226
Research interests:
- Art curating
- Modern and Contemporary art
- Asian art
- Anticolonial/Postcolonial/
Decolonial theory and practice - Cold War era studies
Professor Jeanne Nuechterlein
Professor
- jeanne.nuechterlein@york.ac.uk
- V/N/240
Research interests:
- Religion
- Materials
- Scientific imagery
- Late Medieval/Renaissance/Early Modern
- Northern Europe (Germany and low countries)
- liz.prettejohn@york.ac.uk
- V/N/233
Research interests:
- Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art
- Receptions of Ancient and Renaissance art
- Aesthetics and art criticism
Dr Jessica Richardson
Lecturer
- j.richardson@york.ac.uk
- 01904 324381
- V/N/234
Research interests:
- Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern
- Arts of Italy, 1200–1550
- Materiality and the agency of matter
- Magic and miracles
- The performance of script
Dr Erhan Tamur
Lecturer
Research interests:
- Ancient Western Asian art
- Museum studies
- Art Historical and Archaeological theory
- Politics of archaeology
- Theory and practice of decolonisation
Professor Cordula van Wyhe
Professor of Art History
Research interests:
- Dress and fashion history and theory
- Rubens
- Seventeenth-century Low Countries
- Material culture
- Habsburg court culture
Dr Hanna Vorholt
Senior Lecturer
- hanna.vorholt@york.ac.uk
- 01904 322302
- V/C/218
Research interests:
- Histories of the book
- Manuscripts
- Medieval
- Art and science
- Environmental humanities
Professor Michael White
Head of Department
- michael.white@york.ac.uk
- V/N/239
Research interests:
- Modern and contemporary art
- Critical theories of the avant-garde
- Art Law