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Read more at: Professorship of History of Art post announced

Professorship of History of Art post announced

15 April 2014

The Board of Electors to the Professorship of History of Art invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship to take up appointment on 1 January 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. For further information, please visit the University's main job site...


Read more at: Former student Chloe Kroeter has been appointed postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Watts Gallery

Former student Chloe Kroeter has been appointed postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Watts Gallery

1 April 2014

Chloe will be curating an exhibit and writing a book on the Gallery's collection of George Frederic Watts drawings.


Read more at: Otto Saumarez Smith, current PhD student in the department, has been elected as Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford

Otto Saumarez Smith, current PhD student in the department, has been elected as Shuffrey Junior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford

31 March 2014

The Fellowship will last for four years from September 2014. The Department would like to congratulate him on this achievement .


Read more at: Dr Alexander Marr has been awarded an ERC grant for a new project on the concept of Genius before Romanticism

Dr Alexander Marr has been awarded an ERC grant for a new project on the concept of Genius before Romanticism

28 March 2014

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Read more at: Former student Elizabeth Upper (PhD, 2013) has been named the 2014 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History by the American Printing History Association and a 2014 New Scholar of the Bibliographical Society of America

Former student Elizabeth Upper (PhD, 2013) has been named the 2014 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship in Printing History by the American Printing History Association and a 2014 New Scholar of the Bibliographical Society of America

17 February 2014


Read more at: Zac Rose, PhD Candidate in the History of Art, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation
Zac Rose, PhD Candidate in the History of Art, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation

Zac Rose, PhD Candidate in the History of Art, was recently awarded a fellowship by the Wiener-Anspach Foundation

10 February 2014

He will pursue twelve months of doctoral research at the Free University of Brussels as a member of the Culture, mobilité, territoire graduate group. His dissertation explores how the culturally diffuse “new” nations of nineteenth-century Europe were connected through mass-produced images collected by a wide public. By...


Read more at: New issue of Twentieth Century Architecture: Oxford and Cambridge

New issue of Twentieth Century Architecture: Oxford and Cambridge

10 February 2014

The new issue of the Twentieth Century Society's refereed journal, Twentieth Century Architecture, has a special focus on Oxford and Cambridge. Guest edited by PhD student Otto Saumarez Smith with leading historians Elain Harwood and Alan Powers, the volume includes contributions by a number of current and former Faculty...


Read more at: Former Student Hannah Malone has been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalene College
Former Student Hannah Malone has been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalene College

Former Student Hannah Malone has been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalene College

31 January 2014

The Fellowship will last for three years from October 2014.


Read more at: Ivories in the Portugese Empire: a new book by Professor Jean Michel Massing with Gauvin Bailey and Nuno Vassallo e Silva
Ivories in the Portugese Empire: a new book by Professor Jean Michel Massing with Gauvin Bailey and Nuno Vassallo e Silva

Ivories in the Portugese Empire: a new book by Professor Jean Michel Massing with Gauvin Bailey and Nuno Vassallo e Silva

14 January 2014

Ivory carving took a prime role in the art of the Portuguese empire. Originating from a broad geographical area, from the African Atlantic coast to the Chinese sea, and dating from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 19th century, these works represent a remarkable testimony to the artistic and cultural...


Read more at: First ever Building History graduates
First ever Building History graduates

First ever Building History graduates

12 December 2013

On 30 November 2013 the first graduates of the MSt in Building History took their degrees, becoming, we believe, the first ever Building History graduates in the UK. If this suggestion sounds surprising, the explanation lies in the name. ‘Building History’ combines approaches to the historic built environment drawn from a...