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 Kathryn M. Rudy FBA

Medieval manuscripts and their functions; technical approaches to the reception of manuscripts; creativity and inventiveness

Kathryn Rudy FBA

Professor Svetlana Alpers FBA

Painting and its cultural circumstances in Europe, 1500 to the present; writing about and critical attitudes to looking at art; the practice and uses of photography

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Professor Philip Bohlman FBA

Ethnomusicology: music as an agent of change in culture and modern history; music and religion and race; music in European Judaism and Islam.

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