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 Jill Burke FBA
Jill Burke's research interests are the Italian renaissance and early modern art, cultural history and material culture; history of the body; public history and curation; and historical reconstruction.
Professor Kofi Agawu FBA
Music analysis as theory and practice; semiotic applications in music; West African music
Professor Svetlana Alpers FBA
Painting and its cultural circumstances in Europe, 1500 to the present; writing about and critical attitudes to looking at art; the practice and uses of photography
