Modern and Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art; Classical and traditional African Art; Postcolonial theory and Art criticism; Art and politics
Professor Lau specialises in the archaeology of the Central Andes; ancient peoples and arts of northern Peru; Recuay culture (AD100-800); Andean religions and material culture; World Art.
Modern and contemporary art through the lens of race, sexuality and gender with particular expertise in German modernism and Black British Art
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