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 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
Professor Laura Tunbridge FBA
Cultural history of song, especially lieder; chamber music; opera studies; reception history
Sir Nicholas Penny FBA
Italian painting of the sixteenth century; European Sculpture 1480-1920; the history of the collecting and display of European art.
