Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Based in Norman Foster's world-famous Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts on the UEA campus, Art History and World Art Studies offers a unique and exceptional working environment for Undergraduate and Postgraduate study.
Our students work in unrivalled proximity to major, internationally-renowned works of art, by artists such as Francis Bacon, Edgar Degas, Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso.
Particularly renowned for our broad approach to art, our work encompasses ancient, medieval, Renaissance, modern and contemporary European art, American art, African art, Asian art and Pacific art. Our staff, students and researchers are interested in the history of art, as well as archaeology, anthropology, cultural heritage, and museum studies.
Our students are able to study a wider range of artistic cultures, periods and forms than in any other art history department in the UK.
We are ranked top 10 in the UK for History of Art, Architecture and Design (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2016 and Complete University Guide 2017). We also ranked fifth overall with 98 per cent teaching satisfaction, according to 2017 Guardian University Guide.
79 per cent of research in Art History and World Art Studies was rated 4* (world leading) or 3* (internationally excellent) according to the Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), a major Government analysis of university research quality. Additionally, the impact of our research was rated the second highest in the UK for Art History in the Times Higher Education REF2014 rankings.
Network
Profiles
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Dana Arnold
- School of Art, Media and American Studies - Visitor
- Art History and World Art Studies - Member
Person: Other related - academic, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Stephen Benson
- School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing - Associate Professor
- Legible / Visible - Member
- Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
- Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities - Lecturer
- Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures - Acting Executive Director
- Heritage and History - Member
- Legible / Visible - Member
- Centre for Japanese Studies - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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BA Researcher at Risk: Social roles, identities and values in the families of Ukrainian refugees in 2022-2024
1/02/23 → 31/01/25
Project: Fellowship
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The Good Life: Essays in Psychoanalysis, Art and Literature
Holmboe, R. D. (ed.), Nolte, T. (ed.) & Dresner, O. (ed.), 1 Apr 2024, (Accepted/In press) Routledge.Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition
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A Taste of Honey
Williams, M., 2023, (Accepted/In press) Bloomsbury. (BFI Film Classics)Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Attuning ourselves to tunes
Nowell Smith, D., 8 Feb 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: English. efad003.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Prizes
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BKFS Book Prize in Middle Eastern Studies
Riggs, C. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Community University Engagement individual Media and Communications Award
Williams, Melanie (Recipient), 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Pinner, Rebecca (Recipient), Oct 2020
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
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Jane Austen Society
Melanie Williams (Invited speaker)
14 Jan 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Invited talk
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UK Research & Innovation (External organisation)
Joanne Clarke (Member)
1 Jan 2023 → 1 Jan 2025Activity: Membership › Peer review panel
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Press/Media
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New Books Network podcast with Mohamed Gamal-Eldin: "Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology" (Cornell University Press, 2022)
5/03/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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How Egypt's Aswan Dam Washed Away Nubian Heritage
24/02/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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