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

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 Susanne Küchler FBA

The anthropology of material aesthetics, mathematics and memory; The nature of innovation and the cognitive work of images, taking insights from ethnographic research in Oceania to the laboratory context of materials science

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Professor Laura Tunbridge FBA

Cultural history of song, especially lieder; chamber music; opera studies; reception history

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Sir Nicholas Penny FBA

Italian painting of the sixteenth century; European Sculpture 1480-1920; the history of the collecting and display of European art.

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