Professor Jas Elsner FBA

Greek, Roman, early Christian and Byzantine art and archaeology; the reception of material culture in texts, museums and collecting; art and text; art and religion; the history of art history
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017

Current post

Professor of Late Antique Art, University of Oxford; Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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

Finbarr Barry Flood FBA (Photo credit: Alya Karame)

Professor Greg Woolf FBA

Ancient economies, societies, civilizations. The archaeology and history of the Roman Empire and its neighbours at the very large scale

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Professor Ineke Sluiter FBA

Classics, in particular: ancient and medieval ideas on language; the use of value terms in public debate; cognitive approaches to Greek literature; innovation processes in antiquity, in particular their 'anchoring'

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