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 Nicholas Cook FBA
Theory and analysis; performance studies including empirical approaches; multimedia; cross-cultural interaction; Beethoven; Schenker
Professor Jennifer L Roberts FBA
Art history and material culture of North America and Europe, 18th century to the present; history and theory of print; intersections between the visual arts and the natural sciences.
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
