History of Art
Elected 1985
Sherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, New York University
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
Music history and aesthetics, 1800 to the present; modernity and modernism; Mahler, Debussy, Second Viennese School; music and philosophy
'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