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 John Mack FBA
The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment
Professor Steven Connor FBA
The relations between literature, technology and science and the cultural phenomenology of material life
