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Sussan Babaie

Sussan Babaie is a specialist of the arts and architecture of the early modern Safavid period, with topics on urbanism and empire studies, on sexuality and social habits of ‘seeing’, and on transcultural visuality and notions of exoticism. Her research and teaching maintain a strong commitment to transcultural methodologies and especially trans-Asian subjects.

Sujatha Meegama

Sujatha Meegama’s research interests focus broadly on trans-Asian encounters in the Indian Ocean, especially the medieval and early modern worlds. She takes a trans-national approach to teaching Buddhist art histories and Indian Ocean art histories at the undergraduate and post-graduate level through shared themes, mediums, and methodologies.

Maria Mileeva

Maria Mileeva’s research centres around postcolonial and decolonial narratives of the Russo-Soviet imperial projects and Soviet multinationalism. Geographically, her teaching covers the far reaches of Soviet Russia geopolitical influence and ambitions, including Central Asia and the Caucasus, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

Lan Pu

Lan Pu is a wall painting conservator, engaged in examining sustainable methods for preserving Buddhist heritage through an interdisciplinary approach. Her research areas primarily focus on wall paintings in the Himalayas and other related regions, with special attention paid to religious domains in Bhutan and Tibet.

Devika Singh

Devika Singh specialises in curatorial practice in modern and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on art in South Asia and the transnational history of modernism. She has curated exhibition in a diversity of contexts, ranging from India and Bangladesh to the UAE and the UK.

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi

Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi is an anthropologist with an interest in cultural production, transnationalism and art infrastructure in the Middle East and Gulf countries. She has taught widely at the undergraduate and postgraduate level at New York University, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and London School of Economics and Political Science.

Leili’s scholarship is based on long-term interaction with cultural producers across local, regional and international contexts in Iran, the UAE and the UK. Her research interrogates the idea of the global art world through a postcolonial lens and unpacks the tensions between diaspora and homeland that undergird the circulation of people and objects within the context of the art world. Leili’s research is located at the intersection of the anthropology of art and material and visual culture studies. She is currently working on her first book.

Wenny Teo

Wenny Teo researches and teaches on Modern and Contemporary East and Southeast Asian art with a focus on China and transnational Sinophone cultures. Current research includes ‘infrastructural imaginaries’ in contemporary Chinese art, focusing on issues of ecology, technology and the Belt and Road.

Stephen Whiteman

Stephen Whiteman’s research and teaching engage with visual and spatial cultures of China from a transcultural perspective. His work explores social constructions of space, including architecture, landscape, and maps, as sites of political and cultural authority and resistance. He also has a particular interest in digital methods in art history.

Meredyth Winter

Meredyth Winter researches medieval Iran and its artisanal networks and craft technologies. Juxtaposing regional and trans-regional patterns of exchange, she takes a technical art history approach to analyse the methods of production linking portable goods and ornament across geographic boundaries.

Tom Young

Tom Young’s work centres on nineteenth-century art histories, with a particular focus on colonial South Asia. His current research explores the global history of lithography, a medium that significantly reshaped visual cultures across Asia.