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We are an inclusive community that celebrates different backgrounds and experiences. Find out about our staff and journeys to their current roles in art history and about our Board's EDI pledges.

Staff Journeys

Our 'Staff Journeys' series highlights the different experiences and interesting routes that our staff have taken to becoming Art Historians. There is no single 'right way' and we hope that these stories show that Art History is for everyone! 

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Professor Bob Mills

Head of Department and Professor of Medieval Studies

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Dr Aparna Kumar

Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South

 

Tamar Garb UCL History of Art
Professor Tamar Garb

Durning Lawrence Professor

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Will Ballantyne-Reid

PhD Candidate

 

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Dr Cadence Kinsey

Associate Professor of Contemporary Art

 

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Pietro Perugino, The Last Supper (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

"In Perugino's fresco of the Last Supper, the emphasis is on horizontality, from the long cloth-covered table to the uninterrupted lines of the paneling behind. Being seated at a table levels the heads of Christ and the Apostles, so they also form a neat row that rhythmically punctuates the patterned silk brocade. For me the scene conveys community in the way these figures come together to eat and talk, equalised and organised through the piece of furniture they gather around. It is reminiscent of the conference table and the seminar table, two physical contexts that undergird cooperative intellectual labour, which can flourish only in an environment of mutual respect."

- Dr Allison Stielau

Dr Allison Stielau