Professor Liz James FBA

Byzantine studies, especially art and archaeology; art and text, light and colour; mosaics; also gender; power; place and space; receptions and perceptions of Byzantium.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University of Sussex Professor of Art History

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Daniel Chua FBA

Music – Beethoven, the history of absolute music, music theory and analysis, exo-musicology, global musicology, and the intersection between music, philosophy and theology

Daniel Chua FBA

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

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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)

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