Lecturer Biographies

Thomas Abbott

Thomas Abbott is an independent art and architectural historian, who has lived in Berlin for over thirty years. Born in the United States, he graduated in Psychology and Art History from Minnesota and continued his studies at the Louvre School of Art History in Paris. He has regularly devised and led cultural tours to Germany, France, Italy, and Poland for several of the leading specialist travel companies and took several tours for the London Art History Society to Berlin, Vienna, Munich & the Bauhaus. His expertise in art and architectural history ranges from the medieval to the current and encompasses garden history and the musical heritage of Germany.

Anne Anderson

Dr Anne Anderson is currently a tutor for the V&A Learning Department, Anne specialises in Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts movement. She gained a PhD in English at Exeter University and has first degree in archaeology. She has held several prestigious fellowships including Fellow of the Huntington Library, CA (2008-09 and 2018-19) and Fellow of the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Library and Museum (2009/10). Anne was a senior lecturer in Art and Design History at Southampton Solent University for 14 years and taught on the Fine Arts Valuation degree programs. She has curated major exhibitions and has published widely. Hon. Professor Exeter University.

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Steven Brindle

Dr Steven Brindle is a well-known historian and writer, who worked for English Heritage for many years. He specialises in the history of architecture and engineering, with notable publications including Brunel, the Man who Built the World (2005), Windsor Castle, a Thousand Years of a Royal Palace (2018), Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830 (2023), and London – Lost Interiors (2024).

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Michelle Brown FSA

Dr Michelle Brown is Professor Emerita of Medieval Manuscript Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She was formerly Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the British Library. She has published, exhibited and broadcast widely on medieval culture.

Sarah Burles

Sarah Burles is an art historian, lecturer and tour leader. Sarah studied History of Art at Cambridge University and has a masters degree from University College London. She went on to have a career in museum and gallery education, establishing new services in three different museums, before working at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for many years. Sarah founded Cambridge Art Tours, is a tour director for ACE Cultural Tours, and an accredited lecturer for the Arts Society. A Lay Canon at Ely Cathedral.

Dorigen Caldwell

Dr Dorigen Caldwell is Senior Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art at Birkbeck, University of London, having gained her doctorate at the Warburg Institute. She previously taught at UCL and the American University in Rome, and continues to contribute to the V&A Academy short courses. Dorigen has published in numerous academic journals, including the Burlington Magazine, Renaissance Studies, Art History and the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. She specialises in Italian art of the later sixteenth century, and is currently writing a book entitled Piety, Patronage and Politics in Early Modern Rome.

Tobias Capwell

Dr Tobias Capwell is an independent scholar, award-winning author and leading authority on medieval and Renaissance arms and armour. Over the last thirty years he has worked with many of the world’s great collections, including the Imperial Armoury in Vienna, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Royal Armouries in Leeds, and has served as curator of Glasgow Museums and the Wallace Collection, where he worked for sixteen years until January 2023. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Armourers in London. He has written many books on armour, weapons and tournaments, has curated numerous exhibitions, and frequently appears in film, television and online media.

Kevin Childs

Dr Kevin Childs is a freelance lecturer and writer on art and culture. BA, English Language and Literature/Letters from Christ Church Oxford; PhD in History of Art (2011) with a thesis on Michelangelo and his Contemporaries: A Study of his Influence on the Art of Central Italy, 1540 – 1570. Has taught art history at the V&A and written on subjects as wide ranging as the First World War Poets, Raphael and Michelangelo. Contributes regularly to a number of journals and newspapers.

Anita Chowdry

Anita Chowdry is a visual artist and educator based in London. M.A. Art & Science (Distinction) 2013 from Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London). Bahari Visiting Fellow in Persian Arts of the Book, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, 2016 – 2017. Her research focuses on the codicology of Persian manuscripts and pre-industrial paints and pigments. She makes steel sculpture,etchings, drawings and manuscript illumination. Having undertaken workshops and courses at major institutions in Britain and abroad, she currently lectures on Art History in the Eastern and Islamic world at the CityLit Institute.

Jacqueline Cockburn

Dr Jacqueline Cockburn is a specialist in Spanish Art, Literature and Language. Jacqueline has a BA in Modern Languages from Durham University, an MA in Applied Linguistics, a further BA in Art History and a PhD from the University of London in Art History and Spanish (2002). Her doctoral thesis is on Garcia Lorca’s drawings. She is Managing Director of Art and Culture Andalucia running residential courses in Andalucía, Southern Spain in the art and culture of the region. She is a guest lecturer for Christie’s Education, lectures at the V&A, The Royal Academy, The Art Fund and a range of other institutions.

Mark Crinson

Mark Crinson is Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at Birkbeck, University of London. He was Vice-President and President of the European Architectural History Network (2016-2020), and he is a Fellow of the British Academy. Widely published, his book Shock City: Image and Architecture in Industrial Manchester (2022) was shortlisted for the SAHGB’s Alice Davis Hitchcock medallion.

Elena Crippa

Elena Crippa recently joined the Courtauld Institute of Art as its first Curator of Contemporary Art: Exhibitions and Projects. Previously Head of Exhibitions at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, Senior Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain. She is a renowned curator of modern and contemporary art, with a wealth of experience and an international reputation. She is author and editor of numerous titles.

Prasannajit de Silva

Dr Prasannajit de Silva’s main interests relate to British visual culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in its broader social context, both at home and around the Empire. He completed his doctorate in 2007, researching the art of the British in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has had teaching roles at the University of Sussex and at Birkbeck, University of London, and currently lectures for various organisations including the Arts Society and the WEA. Author of Colonial Self-Fashioning in British India, c. 1785-1845: Visualising Identity and Difference, published 2018 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Patrizia di Bello

Patrizia Di Bello is Professor of History and Theory of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London, where she co-directs the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre and looks after the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive. She is editor-in-chief of History of Photography. She has written on different aspects of women’s engagement with photography as practitioners, collectors and writers, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Ana Mendieta and Jo Spence. Her publications Sculptural Photographs from The Calotype to Digital Technologies (Bloomsbury 2017), The Photobook from Talbot to Ruscha (IB Tauris, 2012), edited with Colette Wilson and Shamoon Zamir, and Women’s Albums and Photography in Victorian Britain: Ladies, Mothers and Flirts (Ashgate 2007).

Rupert Dickens

Rupert Dickens is an art historian with a special interest in Dutch and Flemish 16th and 17th century painting. He is an accredited Arts Society lecturer and works at the Wallace Collection as a guide conducting public and private tours and lecturing on aspects of the collection. Rupert is also a tour director for ACE Cultural Tours. He studied art history at Birkbeck College before undertaking a Masters in Dutch Golden Age Studies at University College London. Before that Rupert had a 26-year career as a BBC journalist ending as an editor in radio news.

Hugh Doherty

Dr Hugh Doherty is a Lecturer in Medieval History at UEA (University of East Anglia). He also delivers lecture series and leads cultural tours for Martin Randall Holidays.

Sally Dormer

Dr Sally Dormer is a specialist medieval art historian with an MA in Medieval Art History and PhD on Medieval illuminated manuscripts from the Courtauld Institute, London University. Sally founded the ongoing V&A Late Medieval Europe and Early Renaissance Year Course 1250-1500 in 1993, and in 2009 devised the V&A Early Medieval Year Course 300-1250; she is Course Director for both courses. She has lectured for Gresham College, teaches for the Arts Society and ARTscapades and was, between 1999-2019, Dean of European Studies, a semester of study abroad in Europe, sponsored by two universities in Tennessee, USA.

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Alexandra Gajewski

Dr Alexandra Gajewski is a specialist in mediaeval architecture. She read Art History, Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology at Münster University, Germany, followed by an MA and PhD (1996) in Gothic architecture in northern Burgundy from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Reviews Editor of the Burlington Magazine and lives in France, also currently leading tours with a number of organisations. She has taught at various London universities, at the V&A Museum, London, and as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr Gajewski’s research concentrates on art and architecture in medieval Europe between the twelfth and fourteenth century, she has published widely on Cistercian architecture in France, the Empire and Bohemia and has been engaged on an international project at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid, part of a research team investigating ‘The Roles of Women as Makers of Medieval Art and Architecture’. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Antonia Gatward Cevizli

Dr Antonia Gatward Cevizli is an independent art historian. She completed an MA in History of Art at the University of Warwick, followed by her PhD (2012) specialising in cultural exchange between Italy and the Ottomans in the fifteenth century. During her undergraduate studies she achieved a Distinction in Spoken Italian and studied in Siena and Venice. She has taught art history at Sabancı University, Istanbul. Antonia is a Course Leader at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, teaches on the Victoria and Albert Museum year course, at the Courtauld Institute of Art Summer School and the National Gallery. Her publications have focused on cultural and diplomatic exchange between Italy and the Ottomans.

Mike Grundy

Mike Grundy After studying the History of Art at Birkbeck College, Mike Grundy has spent the last 15 years in research and lecturing. He conducts courses on the art and architecture of the major European countries for the WEA, and delivers lectures to the Arts Society, U3A, Probus and local art institutions across the south-east of Britain.

Martin Harrison

Martin Harrison is an art historian, author and curator, noted for his work on photography, stained glass. One of the foremost authorities on the work of painter Francis Bacon. Author of the standard work on Victorian Stained Glass (1980). Widely published, has curated exhibitions at the V&A Museum and National Portrait Gallery in London, and others in Italy, the United States, Mexico, and Germany, where he co-curated a Bacon exhibition in 2006 at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen in Düsseldorf.

Cecily Hennessy

Dr Cecily Hennessy received her doctorate in Byzantine Art History from the Courtauld Institute and after working at the Courtauld joined Christie’s Education, where she became Academic Director. She has taught and published widely on representations of children and the family in yzantine art as well as on the architecture and paintings of Constantinople, Jerusalem and Ravenna. She has also focused on connections between Byzantine and western art. She has recently co-edited a book published by Courtauld Books Online on the Cloisters Cross (2026), and published a book on imperial child brides in Byzantium and beyond with Arc Humanities (2026).

Juliet Heslewood

Juliet Heslewood studied History of Art and English Literature at Birkbeck and later lived for nearly thirty years in France where she devised and led art study tours in six different regions. She has written many books on art and now, back in England, concentrates on public lecturing (regularly at the Ashmolean Museum) and her writing career.

Richard Humphreys

Richard Humphreys was Curator of Programme Research at Tate Britain for many years and Deputy Chairman of the London Consortium, of which he was a founding member. He studied English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and subsequently Art History at the Courtauld Institute. More recently he has lectured on a wide range of themes and curated exhibitions across the world and has published several books and catalogues. His recent research concerns modernism and myth.

Liz James

Professor Liz James is a specialist in the art of the Byzantine Empire, with a current focus on mosaics. Her first degree at the University of Durham was in Ancient History and Archaeology, followed by an MA in Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham and subsequently a PhD at the Courtauld Institute in light and colour in Byzantine art. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, she transferred to Sussex in 1993. Liz is Professor of Art History and Interim Dean of the School of Media, Arts and Humanities. Widely published and she is the author of Mosaics of the Medieval World (Cambridge UP, 2017) and she maintains a medieval mosaics website.

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Grant Lewis

Grant Lewis is Milein Cosman Curator for Late Michelangelo at The British Museum. He has a MPhil (Cantab.), a MA (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) and is doing his PhD at The Courtauld on the patronage of the Loredan family in Venice and the terraferma in the early sixteenth century. He is a Guest Lecturer at Cambridge University and The Courtauld. He was Getty Curatorial Fellow, Old Master Drawings, British Museum 2018-21 and worked in Prints and Drawings, British Library 2015- 18. Appointed as Milein Cosman Curator in 2022.

Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones

Professor Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones is Chair of Ancient History and Persian Studies at the University of Cardiff. He read Drama at the University of Hull (1985-1988), followed by an MA and a PhD (1997-2000) in Ancient History at Cardiff University; subsequently joined the Classics department at the University of Edinburgh and in 2015 became Professor of Ancient Greek and Iranian Studies. He has written extensively on ancient Iran, the Near East, Egypt, and ancient Greece and his books have received Farsi translations. He has contributed to TV documentaries and BBC radio programmes and is a regular reviewer for The Times and Times Higher Education.

Kathy McLauchlan

Dr Kathy McLauchlan graduated at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute. In 2001 she completed a PhD thesis on French painters in Rome. Specialising in European art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, she is currently a course director at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she organises courses and study days on the history of art and design.

Michael A. Michael

Professor Michael A. Michael is an art historian who has lectured and written widely on medieval and Renaissance art. He studied History of Art and Architecture at the University of East Anglia (Norwich) and subsequently took a PhD at Westfield College, London, writing on illuminated manuscripts made for the court of Edward III. After working for the British Academy on the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi recording project, he became a lecturer at the University of St Andrews before joining Christie’s Education, as Academic Director. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Glasgow School of Culture and Creative Arts and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He led the Opus Anglicanum Project at the University of Glasgow. His publications include studies of the Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, English Medieval Panel Painting, Illuminated Manuscripts and Medieval Liturgical Embroidery.

Lesley Milner

Dr Lesley Milner is an art historian. She completed her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2015. Her doctoral thesis Secret spaces: English sacristies, vestries and treasure rooms, 1066-1300 examined the chambers belonging to cathedrals and churches which conserved ecclesiastical treasure. Her book Secret Spaces: Sacred treasuries in England 1066–1320 was published in 2024. She has published in the Antiquaries Journal, the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, and the Burlington Magazine. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Philip Modiano

Philip Modiano leads the Petit Society and has conducted extensive research on the Victorian artist and architectural writer John Louis Petit (1801–1868). His publications include Britain’s Lost Pre-Impressionist and Petit’s Tours of Old Staffordshire. He has organised exhibitions and lectures widely on the rediscovery of Petit’s art and ideas.

Lisa Monnas

Dr Lisa Monnas is an independent textile historian, with a special interest in Italian medieval and Renaissance silks and paintings. Publications include Merchants, Princes and Painters: Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1550 (New Haven and London Yale University Press, 2008).  She contributed to English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum, the catalogue of the exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2016-2017.

Dr Peter Moore

 Dr Peter Moore, Curator of Collections and Interiors at Wrest Park in conjunction with Sally Johnson, English Heritage Collections Conservator and Dickon Whitewood who has responsibility for the Collections Store at Wrest Park.

Matthew Morgan

Dr Matthew Morgan is a freelance art historian, educator and museum professional. He has been the Museum Director of Turner’s House, and an Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. He has worked in the heritage sector for 10 years, including at the Royal Collection, the National Gallery, the Wallace Collection and the V&A. Prior to that he was a Director in Christie’s Valuation Department. He has contributed to TV documentaries, podcasts, radio shows and has lectured widely across the country and made a series of short films which can be seen on YouTube.

Marcus Mucha

Marcus Mucha was awarded Double First Class Honours in English at the University of Cambridge and subsequently obtained an MBA module in Creative Entrepreneurship at the London Business School. He is the great-grandson of visionary Czech artist Alphonse Mucha. He returned to Europe following a successful career in Hollywood, so that he could lead the Mucha Foundation and champion the legacy of Alphonse Mucha for generations to come. Since taking the helm as the Foundation’s Executive Director, Marcus has led the Foundation in producing record-breaking and critically acclaimed exhibitions in over thirty cities around the world.

Natalia Murray

Dr Natalia Murray is an art historian specialising in Russian art. BA from the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, PhD (2014) from the Courtauld Institute of Art in Twentieth-century Russian Art. Natalia lectures on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian Art at The Courtauld and the University of Sussex. She curated Revolution, Russian Art 1917-1932 at the RA and led a Society study day, Art at the time of the Revolution, to link with the exhibition. Her books and articles extend across the wide field of 19-20th century Russian and European art, and she has featured in films dedicated to the Hermitage Museum and the Russian revolution and in programmes for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Natalia is also a trustee of the Russian Avant-Garde Research Project, a UK-based charity which shares one of her aspirations to encourage and advance the wider understanding of the avant-garde art and to reduce the number of fakes on the art market.

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Paula Nuttall

Dr Paula Nuttall is an art historian specialising in the Renaissance, with a particular interest in artistic relations between Italy and the Netherlands. Studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, writing her PhD thesis on artistic relations between the Netherlands and Italy. She has published widely on this topic, and has contributed to major exhibitions, including Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution (Ghent, 2020). Former Course Director of the V&A Late Medieval to Early Renaissance Year Course and Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld, she lectures for the V&A, London Art History Society and the Arts Society.

Zoë Opačić

Zoë Opačić is a Reader in the History and Theory of Architecture at Birkbeck College, specialising in medieval art, architecture and urbanism. She received her BA, MA and PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, she edited the Journal of British Archaeological Association (2015–18) and has authored and edited a number of publications in English, German, Czech and Italian including recent contributions to the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe and the Brill Companion to Medieval Vienna.

Richard Plant

Dr Richard Plant is an architectural historian and lecturer specialising primarily in the Middle Ages with a strong interest in the modern. He studied English Literature at Cambridge before going on to do his MA and then PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art. He has taught at a number of institutions, and was Deputy Academic Director at Christie’s Education. He has published on English and German architecture and has contributed to the British Archaeological Association’s International Romanesque conferences and co-edited the proceedings. He is currently Secretary of the BAA.

Jane Pritchard

Jane Pritchard MBE was curator of dance for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (V&A) until July 2026. She has curated many exhibitions at the V&A including co-curating Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 1909–1929, for which she gave this Society a study day. She has made radio programmes for the BBC, curated seasons of dance films and contributed to numerous publications including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and The Annual Register. She was the author of Anna Pavlova Twentieth Century Ballerina. She has been a recipient of a Churchill Travel Fellowship and the Anthony Denning Research Award. She was awarded an MBE for services to the arts in the 2014 New Year Honours.

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Warwick Rodwell

Professor Warwick Rodwell OBE is an archaeologist, architectural historian and academic. He was lately Visiting Professor in the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, and is Consultant Archaeologist to Westminster Abbey, where he is also a member of the College of St Peter in Westminster. He is the author of many books and articles, including the standard textbook on church archaeology. He excavated a number of prehistoric, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval sites in Essex and Eastern England during the 1960s and 1970s which became particularly significant, has had listed long-term consultancies at a number of major abbeys and cathedrals and was one of the pioneers who created the discipline of ‘church archaeology’ as we know it today.

Sue Rollin

Sue Rollin holds degrees in Near Eastern archaeology, South Asian studies and in conference interpreting. She has tutored and lectured at London and Cambridge Universities, had a post as staff interpreter at the European Commission and currently works as a freelance interpreter, lecturer and tour guide. Sue has led cultural tours in Spain, Sicily, Morocco, the Middle East, Central Asia and India and co-authored two travel guides: the Blue Guide to Jordan and Istanbul: A Traveller’s Guide. In the UK she lectures for the Arts Society and has contributed to V&A study courses. Sue speaks French, German, Spanish and Italian and works regularly as an interpreter for international organisations.

Adam Sammut

Dr Adam Sammut FRHistS is an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the University of York. Adam’s PhD thesis, Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp, was published as a monograph under the same title (2023). Prior appointments include Rush H Kress Fellow at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti (2024–25) and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at York (2021–24). Adam is the recipient of the inaugural Burlington Magazine Prize for Research on South Netherlandish Art 1400–1800.

Gill Saunders

Dr Gill Saunders was formerly Senior Curator of Prints at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she specialised twentieth-century and contemporary prints and drawings. She is now an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the V&A. Her publications include Recording Britain (2011), Bawden, Ravilious and the Artists of Great Bardfield (2015), The Poster: A Visual History (2020) and Edward Bawden’s England (2023). She has been working on an exhibition of Lucian Freud’s etchings open throughout 2024, and a book on screenprints.

Niccola Shearman

Dr Niccola Shearman is an independent art historian and freelance lecturer in the field of twentieth-century German and Austrian art. Educated at Oxford University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, her doctorate concerned the German modernist print in the aftermath of the First World War. She has been associate lecturer at the Courtauld Institute and the University of Manchester and is a regular contributor to Courtauld Short Courses and to the V&A Academy. In 2025 she was co-curator, with Emily Christensen, of With Graphic Intent, German and Austrian modernist works on paper, at the Courtauld Gallery. Publications include academic articles, book reviews and exhibition catalogue essays. Current research concerns Viennese artists and art historians in exile in London and New York.

Naomi Speakman

Dr Naomi Speakman is curator of Late Medieval Europe at the British Museum. She completed her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art on the collecting and reception of medieval ivories in nineteenth-century Britain and is preparing a monograph drawn from her doctoral research.

Neil Stratford

Dr Neil Stratford is a Medievalist. BA at Magdalene College, Cambridge University; continued study at the Courtauld Institute in 1963 working on a dissertation (never completed) on the Romanesque sculpture at the Church of La Madeleine, Vézelay. Keeper of Medieval and Later Antiquities, British Museum, 1975-1998. His work on Vézelay and Saint-Lazare d’Autun resulted in a more precise chronology of those sculptural monuments. He is a member of the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and Professor Emeritus of the École nationale des chartes. Neil has recently published a monograph on the cup in French, published by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris.

Ben Street

Dr Ben Street is an art historian, author and lecturer. He has written many books on art for general audiences and is a contributing writer for Art Review, Apollo and the Times Literary Supplement. He teaches for the University of East Anglia and the University of Oxford, and has been an educator and lecturer for many museums in the UK and USA.

Adam Tuck

 Adam Tuck holds the office of Lancaster Herald at the College of Arms, the heraldic authority for England and Wales. Prior to joining the College in 2017, Adam studied History at Cambridge University and Graphic Design at the University of the Arts London (LCC), and worked as the in-house graphic designer at the British Academy of Film of Television Arts (BAFTA).

Jennifer van Schoor

Dr Jennifer van Schoor was awarded her PhD from Birkbeck in 2019 with much-appreciated support from the Art and Humanities Research Council and under the supervision of Professor Lynda Nead. Having taken time out of academia to pursue her work as an art director and graphic designer, Jennifer is pleased to finally share some of her research with the London Art History Society.

Ursula Weekes

Dr Ursula Weekes is an independent Art Historian. BA in History at St John’s College, University of Cambridge; MA in Dutch 17th century painting, Courtauld Institute of Art; PhD in Printmaking in 15th-century Europe 1998 – 2002 from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Ursula has worked as Supervisor of the Western Art Print Room at the Ashmolean Museum and as Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld and Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi. Her more recent work concentrates on the art of Mughal India, she has led specialist tours to India in recent years and a book on ‘Imperial Court Painting of Mughal India’ is anticipated soon. Her first major book was Early Engravers and their Public (Harvey Miller, 2004).

Giulia Martina Weston

Giulia Martina Weston is an art historian, independent curator and advisor. PhD (2014) from The Courtauld Institute of Art, where she has been Associate Lecturer since 2016. She is Consultant Lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and an independent art consultant. She has lectured for the London Art History Society, the Lincoln College, University of Oxford, and the Paul Mellon Centre. Author of several publications and articles in academic journals. Her publications focus on various aspects of Renaissance and Early Modern art and society, and on issues of connoisseurship and authenticity.