Professor Finbarr Barry Flood FBA
The material culture of Islamicate societies; transcultural dimensions of artistic production and reception; social functions of devotional imagery; intersections between occult and therapeutic materials; replication, technology and concepts of modernity
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Subjects
- Art history, History, Music
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Current post
Founder-director of Silsila, Center for Material Histories
Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University William R Kenan, Jr Professor of the Humanities
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Tamar Garb FBA
Art, gender and sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France; race and visual representation in the modern period; contemporary art and politics and photographic/filmic practices in of and from Southern Africa
Professor Briony Fer FBA
Modern and contemporary art; abstraction; special interests in the legacies of the constructive avant-gardes and in contemporary art; the relationship between art and theory; new critical perspectives on art
