Jack Hartnell

Jack Hartnell is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History & World Art Studies. He is an art historian and curator, with particular specialisms in the cross-continental visual culture of premodern science and its display, broadly defined to include cutting-edge research and curatorial work on the artistic materials of medicine, cartography, and mathematics, most recently with a strong emphasis on premodern Jewish art and culture.

In his Faculty position as Unit of Assessment Coordinator for REF29, Jack takes a lead on developing research in art history and curating across the university, connecting research undertaken in HUM, the SCVA, SRU and SISJAC.

In 2019-20 he was the Dibner Long-Term Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library in California, and before starting at UEA he held positions as Visiting Curator at Two Temple Place, Mellon Fellow at Columbia University, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art, and the Inaugural Fellow between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin. 

Jack's most recent book, Medieval Bodies: Life, Death, and Art in the Middle Ages, was published in 2018 by the Wellcome Collection, London. It was a Sunday Times History Book of the Year and has been translated into 8 international editions.

At School level, Jack is also a Senior Adviser for the School of History and Art History, guiding student pastoral care.

Art History; Medical History; History of Science & Technology