Professor Alain George FBA
History of Islamic Art and Architecture; Early Qur'ans; Umayyad and Abbasid Art and Architecture; History of Arabic Calligraphy; Arabic Illustrated Manuscripts; the Indian Ocean Trade.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- Art history
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Current post
I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director, Khalili Research Centre, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Georgina Born OBE FBA
Anthropology and sociology of music, media and digital cultures; anthropological theory; the social, the material, and time; cultural production, cultural institutions and creative industries; music in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries; interdisciplinarity; AI and culture; digital humanities and digital methods
Professor Michael Squire FBA
Ancient Greek and Roman art and archaeology; classical literature, culture and thought; visual-verbal relations; classical traditions and reception; theologies of art; cultural history of ornament; history of aesthetics
Professor Jonathan Cross FBA
History, aesthetics and reception of European music of the 20th and 21st centuries; modernisms; spectral music; music theory and analysis
