Our staff
Staff CATEGORIES
These are our Birkbeck staff categories within the Department of History of Art.
Head of department
- Professor Leslie Topp, Professor of Architectural History
Academic staff
- Dr Suzannah Biernoff, Reader in Visual Culture
- Dr Dorigen Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Italian Renaissance Art
- Professor Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology
- Professor Annie E Coombes, Professor of Material and Visual Culture
- Professor Mark Crinson, Professor of Architectural History
- Professor Patrizia Di Bello, Professor of History and Theory of Photography
- Professor Steve Edwards, Professor of History and Theory of Photography
- Dr Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra, Lecturer in Contemporary Art
- Dr Robert Maniura, Reader, Art of the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
- Professor Lynda Nead, Pevsner Chair of History of Art
- Dr Zoë Opačić, Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Architecture
- Professor Kate Retford, Professor of History of Art
- Dr Sarah Thomas, Lecturer in Museum Studies and History of Art
- Professor Leslie Topp, Reader in History of Architecture
- Dr Clare Vernon, Lecturer in Medieval Art
Associate lecturers
- Dr Charlotte Ashby
- Toby Butler
- Dr Monica Bohm Duchen
- Susan Bracken
- Dr Prasannajit de Silva
- Dr Michael Douglas Scott
- Rosanna Eckersley
- Dr Nickolas Lambrianou
- Christopher Moock
- Dr Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius
- Dr Laurie Taylor
Emeritus academic staff
- Professor Francis Ames-Lewis
- Professor Peter Draper
- Dr Tag Gronberg
- Dr Laura Jacobus, Life Member of the College
- Professor William Vaughan
Research Fellows and visiting professors
- Susanna Avery-Quash, Honorary Research Fellow
- Juliana Barone, Honorary Research Fellow
- Frances Hatherley, Associate Research Fellow
- Anita Klesch, Honorary Research Fellow
- Dr Gabriel Koureas, Honorary Research Fellow and Life Member of the College
- Lucy Peltz, Honorary Research Fellow
- Rebecca Sykes, Associate Research Fellow
- Colette Wilson, Honorary Research Fellow
Departmental administrators: for general queries about our courses and studying
- You can email the History of Art administrative team.
- Diana Bogatu: Programme administrator for all BA programmes, Certificate of HE in History of Art & History of Art and Architecture, and Graduate Certificate in History of Art and Architecture
- Shirley van de Polder: Programme administrator for all Postgraduate (MA & MRes) programmes
- Jack Redden: Team Leader
- Clare Thomas: Assistant School Manager
- Anthony Shepherd is the Administrator for all MPhil/PhD programmes in the School of Arts.