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Department of History of Art

 
 James Sloss Ackerman
Slade Professor from 1969-70
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University
 Tim  Barringer
Slade Professor from 2009-10
Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
 Barry  Bergdoll
Slade Professor from 2010-11
Professor of Architectural History, Columbia University
 Jan  Bialostocki
Slade Professor from 1984-85
Professor of Renaissance Art, University of Warsaw and Curator at the National Museum, Warsaw
 Albert  Blankert
Slade Professor from 1999-2000
Art Historian, The Hague, The Netherlands
Sir Anthony  Blunt
Slade Professor from 1965-66
Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
 Jean  Bony
Slade Professor from 1958-61
 John Ellis Bowlt
Slade Professor from 2015-16
Professor at the University of Southern California
Director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture at the University of Southern California
 Anita  Brookner
Slade Professor from 1967-68
Lecturer (later Reader), Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
 Patricia Fortini Brown
Slade Professor from 2000-01
Professor of Art History, Princeton University
 Rupert  Bruce-Mitford
Slade Professor from 1978-79
Former Research Keeper, The British Museum, London
 Tilmann  Buddensieg
Slade Professor from 1973-74
Professor of Art History, Free University of Berlin
 Howard  Burns
Slade Professor from 1977-78
Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
 Ian  Christie
Slade Professor from 2005-06
Anniversary Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London
 Alan  Clutton-Brock
Slade Professor from 1955-58
Sir Sidney  Colvin
Slade Professor from 1873-95
First Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1874-84
 William George Constable
Slade Professor from 1935-37
Director of the Courtauld Institute, Curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
 Richard  Cork
Slade Professor from 1989-90
Critic and Art Historian
 Elizabeth  Cropper
Slade Professor from 1992-93
Professor of Art History, The Johns Hopkins University
 Paul  Crossley
Slade Professor from 2011-12
Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
 William J.R Curtis
Slade Professor from 2003-04
Architectural Historian, France
 Otto  Demus
Slade Professor from 1968-69
Professor of Art History, University of Vienna
 Lindsay  Errington
Slade Professor from 1988-89
Assistant Keeper, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
 Jerome  Feldman
Slade Professor from 2004-05
Professor of Art History and Art, Hawaii Pacific University
 David   Freedberg
Slade Professor from 2016-17
Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
Director of the Warburg Institute
 Roger  Fry
Slade Professor from 1933-34
 John  Golding
Slade Professor from 1976-77
Lecturer (later Reader), Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Sir Ernst  Gombrich
Slade Professor from 1962-63
Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, Warburg Institute, University of London
 George Heard Hamilton
Slade Professor from 1971-72
Director of the Sterling and Francine Clarke Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
 Robert  Harrist
Slade Professor from 2006-07
Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History, Columbia University
 T.A (Sandy)  Heslop
Slade Professor from 1997-98
Lecturer (later Professor) of the History of Art, University of East Anglia
 Robert  Hillenbrand
Slade Professor from 2008-09
Emeritus Professor of Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh
 Martin  Kemp
Slade Professor from 1987-88
Professor of Fine Arts, University of St Andrews
 Ernst  Kitzinger
Slade Professor from 1974-75
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University
 Joseph Leo Koerner
Slade Professor from 2002-03
Professor of History of Art, University College, London
 Lothar  Ledderose
Slade Professor from 1991-92
Sir Michael  Levey
Slade Professor from 1963-64
Deputy Keeper (subsequently Director), The National Gallery, London
 Neil  Levine
Slade Professor from 1994-95
Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
 John Henry  Middleton
Slade Professor from 1886 -1895
Archaeologist and Director of the Fitzwilliam and Victoria and Albert Museums
 Mary  Miller
Slade Professor from 2014-15
Dean of Yale College from 2008 - 2014
Sterling Professor of History of Art, Yale
 Jennifer  Montagu
Slade Professor from 1980-81
Curator of the Photographic Collection, Warburg Institute, University of London
 Gülru  Necipoğlu
Slade Professor from 2012-13
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Director of the Aga Khan Program of Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
 Carl  Nordenfalk
Slade Professor from 1972-73
Former Director of the National Museum, Stockholm and Guest Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Sir Nikolaus  Pevsner
Slade Professor from 1949-55
 Griselda  Pollock
Slade Professor from 2007-08
Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art, University of Leeds
Sir John  Pope-Hennessy
Slade Professor from 1964-65
Keeper of Sculpture (subsequently Director), Victoria and Albert Museum, London
 Edward Schroeder Prior
Slade Professor from 1912-1932
 Theodore  Reff
Slade Professor from 1982-83
Professor of Art History, Columbia University
 Pierre  Rosenberg
Slade Professor from 1986-87
Chief Curator of Paintings (later Director), Musée du Louvre, Paris
 Joseph  Rykwert
Slade Professor from 1979-80
Professor of Art, University of Essex
 Gerhard  Schmidt
Slade Professor from 1981-82
Professor of the History of Art, University of Vienna
 Virginia  Spate
Slade Professor from 1998-99
Power Professor of Fine Art, University of Sydney
 Michael  Sullivan
Slade Professor from 1983-84
Christensen Professor of Oriental Art, Stanford University; Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Oxford
Sir John  Summerson
Slade Professor from 1966-67
Curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
 William  Vaughan
Slade Professor from 1990-91
Professor of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London
Sir  Charles  Waldstein (later Walston)
Slade Professor from 1895-1901 and 1904-11
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1884-89
Slade Professor from 1975-76
Professor and Head of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, University of London
 Geoffrey Fairbank Webb
Slade Professor from 1938–1941 and from 1946–1949
Sir David  Wilson
Slade Professor from 1985-86
Director of the British Museum, London
 Irene  Winter
Slade Professor from 1996-97
Professor of Fine Arts, Harvard University
 Rudolf  Wittkower
Slade Professor from 1970-71
Emeritus Professor of the History of Art, Columbia University
Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt
Slade Professor from 1869-73