May 2018

Dr Allison Kidd

Dr Allison Kidd
Home institution: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts
Postdoctoral Fellow September 2018 - June 2019.

Project: Architectural Ornamentation in Late Antiquity: Classical Antecedents, Contemporary Aesthetics & Economics from the 3rd–7th centuries AD

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Dr Olivia Ferguson

Dr Olivia Ferguson

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August 2018 to 31 May 2019

John Kay: A New View of Caricature

My current research interests revolve around caricature as a trans-medial phenomenon in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, and at IASH I am working on a critical reappraisal of the Edinburgh-based portraitist John Kay (1742-1826). As part of my project I will organise a series of experimental life drawing workshops teaching the history of caricature.

Dr Rachel Delman

Dr Rachel Delman

Susan Manning Postdoctoral Fellow

September 2018 - April 2019

project: Mary of Guelders: Female Power and Architectural Patronage in Late Medieval Scotland

Project Title: ‘Mary of Guelders: Female Power and Architectural Patronage in Late Medieval Scotland’

Dr Mariagrazia Portera

Dr Mariagrazia Portera (Centre for Croatian Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Zagreb)
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EURIAS Junior Fellow July 2018 - April 2019

Project: ‘Grasp Your Habits’: Habitual Behaviour, Cultural Transmission and the Arts from the Perspective of the Environmental Humanities

Dr Sugata Nandi

Dr Sugata Nandi (West Bengal State University, Kolkata)

Visiting Research Fellow, September - December 2018

Dr Sugata Nandi is Assistant Professor of History at the West Bengal State University, Kolkata, researching the history of globalisation of Indian magic from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. His research explores how the West orientalised India by appropriating aspects of its religion, culture and forms of entertainment as magic, and how this in turn generated tensions within Orientalism itself.