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 |
| Jade French | Leeds | Curatorial practice and theory; inclusive art, access and disability; participatory and socially engaged practices; co-produced and practice-led research methods |
| Gill Park | Leeds | Feminist interventions in art and exhibition histories; British photography since the 1980s; contemporary art and curation; histories of experimental film/video |
| Samuel Gartland | Leeds | Ancient Greek history; Classical Archaeology; Ancient Boiotia and Thebes; The Peloponnesian War |
| Kevin Kuykendall | Sheffield | Plio-Pleistocene hominin evolution in Africa; Evolution of early hominin life history; Middle Palaeolithic archaeology and Neanderthal occupation of Britain |
| Richard Phillips | Sheffield | Muslim geographies and postcolonial cities; sexuality, space and power; creative writing and innovative fieldwork |
| Mark Pendleton | Sheffield | History of twentieth-century Japan; political and cultural memory in Japan; gender and sexuality; critical and cultural studies |
| Aimée Little | York | Hunter-gatherer material culture and funerary archaeology, ideology and belief systems; experimental archaeology and material culture studies |
| James Boaden | York | Experimental film and video; twentieth-century art; American art; art and sexuality; photography |
| 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. |