Professor Finbarr Barry Flood FBA
The material culture of Islamicate societies; transcultural dimensions of artistic production and reception; social functions of devotional imagery; intersections between occult and therapeutic materials; replication, technology and concepts of modernity
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- Art history, History, Music
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Current post
Founder-director of Silsila, Center for Material Histories
Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University William R Kenan, Jr Professor of the Humanities
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Jas Elsner FBA
Greek, Roman, early Christian and Byzantine art and archaeology; the reception of material culture in texts, museums and collecting; art and text; art and religion; the history of art history
Professor Gülru Necipoğlu FBA
Ottoman and Mediterranean architectural history; premodern Islamic art and architecture; artistic cosmopolitanism of early modern Islamicate empires; visual culture and history of science; aesthetics of abstraction and ornament; critical historiography
Professor Patrick Wright FBA
'Heritage' and the power of tradition in British culture since 1890; the cultural dimensions of international relations since 1945; place and belonging in relation to globalisation
