MRes in Art History in Norwich United Kingdom | University of East Anglia

For many years, the Department of Art History and World Art Studies has cultivated an exceptionally broad, varied, and cross-disciplinary research environment. Our faculty specializes in diverse fields including Art History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Climate Studies, and Museum Studies. The department collaborates closely with two additional research centers dedicated to World Art: the Sainsbury Research Unit for African, Oceanic, and American Arts (SRU) and the Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC). We also partner with the Sainsbury Centre museum team on exhibitions, projects, and special programs.

This enables our department to pursue academic inquiry across an extraordinary range: spanning ancient Mesopotamian artifacts to modern West African creations, medieval Norwich to 20th-century Indian works, Renaissance cartography to avant-garde cinema. When examining culturally distant subjects, we strive to connect profound historical perspectives with contemporary relevance. Key areas of teaching and research excellence encompass: climate change's impact on art and archaeology, postcolonial theory, medieval visual traditions, artistic photography and filmmaking, heritage preservation, the intersection of visual arts and poetry, and modern art curation.