People

Edward Prior

• Slade Professor from 1912-1932

Dame Jessica Rawson

Receptionist

• Faculty Receptionist/ Clerical Assistant

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

Professor Frank Salmon

• Professor of the History of Classical Architecture
• Director of Postgraduate Education (2025-26)
• Fellow of St John's College (President 2015-19)

Gerhard Schmidt

• Slade Professor from 1981-82
• Professor of the History of Art, University of Vienna

Dr Laura Slater

• Associate Professor in the History of Medieval Art and Architecture
• Deputy Head of Department
• Director of MPhil Studies

Dr Teresa Soley

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
• Director of Studies, Christ’s College and Newnham College
• Bye-Fellow of Christ’s College

Professor Frances Spalding

• Fellow of Clare Hall
• Affiliated Lecturer

Virginia Spate

• Slade Professor from 1998-99
• Power Professor of Fine Art, University of Sydney

Lucian Stephenson

• Course Technical Administrator

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