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 Gianmario Borio FBA
20th-century music; history of the theories and concepts of music; compositional process and archival research; music aesthetics and reception theories; music’s political background; audiovisual experience
Professor Kobena Mercer FBA
Modern and contemporary art history of the Black Atlantic, including photography and film; cultural studies of race, ethnicity and diaspora; black/queer intersections; psychoanalysis and postcolonial identities
Professor Tina K. Ramnarine FBA
Anthropology of music; global and interdisciplinary perspectives on musical performance; music in colonial histories and postcolonial creativities; arts responses to contemporary global challenges
