This Cluster embraces the disciplines of Art History, Archaeology, Architecture, Classics, and Cultural & Museum Studies, as well as aspects of Human Geography and Art History.
Chair: Steve Ashby, Department of Archaeology, University of York
| Member | University | Research interests |
| Penelope Goodman | Leeds | Roman settlements and communities; Emperor Augustus |
| Abigail Harrison Moore | Leeds | Nineteenth-century art and design; the Arts and Crafts Movement; the Art Market; decorative art history; creative education and young people; museums, heritage and galleries |
| Catherine Karkov | Leeds | Early medieval art and culture; sculpture; materialities, environmental studies, and decolonisation; gender and the body in late antique and early medieval culture; history and theory of the book; theories of text and image |
| Gianna Ayala | Sheffield | Geoarchaeology (landscape and on-site investigations); Italian and Mediterranean prehistory; landscape archaeology and field survey techniques; contemporary archaeology |
| Umberto Albarella | Sheffield | Animal domestication and husbandry intensification; ethnoarchaeology; ritual use of animals; husbandry evidence of Romanization; animals and medieval life; archaeology and politics |
| Eric Olund | Sheffield | The cultural and legal production and regulation of race, gender and sexuality; the sensory culture and geography of governmentality; urban life in the Progressive-era United States; critical theory — especially Benjamin, Bergson, Butler, Connolly, Deleuze, Dewey, Foucault, James |
| Penny Bickle | York | Neolithic people, routines, architecture, landscape; intersection of theoretical approaches to the past and scientific methodologies in material culture, social relationships and animal and human bodies |
| Jeanne Nuechterlein | York | Nature and functions of sacred and secular art; impact of the Reformation on the visual arts; comparison between different artistic media e.g. painting, sculpture, prints, illuminated manuscripts, embroidery, and tapestry; conceptualization of period divisions; the impact of patronage; word/image/rhetoric relationships; interactions between art and science; and the methodologies applied to northern Renaissance art |
| Katherine Selby | York | Reconstruction of past sea level changes; environmental reconstruction of coastal areas and how these may have influenced cultural development; Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction using pollen and diatom analyses. |