Craig Clunas#
| Membership Number: | 3679 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford
- 8.2007 - 2018 Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford
- 2003.8 - 2007.7 Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
- 1997.7 - 2003.8 Professor of the History of Art, University of Sussex
- 1996.10 - 1997.6 Reader in History of Art, University of Sussex
- 1994.9 - 1996.10 Senior Lecturer in History of Art, University of Sussex
- 1993 - 1994 Senior Research Fellow in Chinese Studies, Research Department, Victoria and Albert Museum
- 1983 - 1993 Assistant Keeper, Far Eastern Department, Victoria and Albert Museum (post retitled Deputy Curator in 1990)
- 1979 - 1983 Research Assistant, Far Eastern Department, Victoria and Albert Museum
Fields of Scholarship
- History of collecting and museology
- Methodology of art history
- Culture and art of the Ming period
- Historiography of art history
- Art in China since the Yuan period
Honours and Awards
- 2012 - 2015 AHRC Research Grant (as Co-Investigator): ‘Ming 1400-1450: Courts and Contacts’ (£434,003)
- 2012 61st Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, CASVA, Washington DC
- 2010 D. Litt. (Honoris causa), University of Warwick
- 2009 March - April British Academy\Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Exchange Scholar
- 2004 Fellow of the British Academy, Section H11 (History of Art and Music), cross-membership of Sections H3 (Africa, Asia and the Middle East) and H9 (Early Modern History to 1850)
- 2003 21st Edward H. Benenson Lecturer, Duke University
- 2001 Iris Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Study of the Decorative Arts
- 2000 - 2003 HEFCE FDTL Phase 3 Grant: Globalising Art, Architecture and Design History (£249,875)
- 2000 Provost's Distinguished Visitor, University of Southern California
- 1999 R.C. Hills Gold Medal of the Oriental Ceramic Society, for Outstanding Contribution to the Study of Oriental Art
- 1996 Visiting Scholar, Getty Center for the Visual Arts and Humanities
