Machine learning; Black aesthetics; art of the global south; philosophy of mathematics; race and racialisation; digital culture and computational reason.
Pre-Columbian and colonial art of Latin America; print culture and materiality in colonial South America; movement and circulation; decolonial theory; hybridity, visibility and invisibility; material religion; colonialism and race; nationalism and the construction of regional art histories
19th- and 20th-century European art; feminism and global politics; art and visual culture in South Africa; colonial critique, photographic histories and contemporary art from Africa; the image of the 'Jew'; race, racialisation and representation in modern and contemporary art
Medieval art and architecture of Africa; Ethiopic, Syriac, Armenian, and Copto-Arabic illuminated manuscripts; Ethiopian and Eritrean art; historiography; Oriental Orthodox Christianity.
Intersection of material culture studies, art history and conservation; modern and contemporary art and media; notions of materiality, changeability, time, and archive
Modern and contemporary art in a global frame; art and architecture of South Asia; Islamic art in South Asia; colonial photography; twentieth-century partition history; museum studies; repatriation politics; postcolonial theory and criticism; object mobilities; cross-border methodologies
Materiality in the conservation of time-based media and performance art; feminist new materialisms; ethics and performativity of cultural heritage; notions of periphery/decentring, inclusions/exclusions, in material art histories and conservation
Modern and contemporary art; questions of feminism, gender, sexuality and subjectivity; artistic resistance to militarism and war; psychoanalysis; violence; the politics of peace
Painting, sculpture, goldsmith work, drawing/design, mainly Italian, from the 14th to the earlier 16th century. Having focussed historically on questions of artistic practice, patronage, ideology and reception, Alison's current research on surfaces addresses the material uses and effects – social, political and aesthetic – of metals, across media and over time
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