Research Degrees MLitt & PhD
The postgraduate programme at UCD School of Art History & Cultural Policy incorporates research degrees at MLitt and PhD level in both Art History, and in Cultural Policy and Arts Management.
Research postgraduate studies are offered in cultural policy, and in the history of all media -- painting, sculpture, architecture, and the applied arts. Individual topics must correspond to the research interests of the staff.
Students with a potential topic for a research thesis should begin by bringing a well written proposal to the potential supervisor.
Staff fields of research
- Pat Cooke, MA, MBA – lecturer. Research Interests: Cultural policy and management within the cultural sector, arts and heritage policies.
- Philip Cottrell, MA, PhD (St Andrew’s) – lecturer. Research Interests: primarily 16th century Venetian painting, but with wider interests in the theme of art and death in Europe 1400-1700, with a particular focus on 17th century English tomb sculpture.
- Nicola Figgis, MA, PhD (NUI) – lecturer. Research Interests: 17th-19th century Irish Painting; the Irish on the Grand Tour.
- Kathleen James-Chakraborty, MA, PhD (UPenn) - Professor. Research Interests: architectural history around the world since 1600; the relationship between modernism, modernity, and nationalism.
- John Loughman, MA, PhD (Lond) – senior lecturer. Research Interests: History & Visual Culture of the Low Countries in the 17th and 18th centuries; printmaking.
- Emily Mark FitzGerald, MA (Indiana University), PhD (NUI) – lecturer. Research Interests: modern and contemporary international and Irish art; public art and monuments; memory, identity and representation; museums, exhibition practice and arts/cultural policy.
- Lynda Mulvin, MArchSc (Cons) (KU Louvain), PhD(Dub) – lecturer. Research Interests: Greek and Roman art and architecture; Medieval Art and Architecture; 19th-century art and architecture; conservation of archaeological sites and historic buildings.
- Paula Murphy, MA, PhD (NUI) – senior lecturer. Research Interests: Sculpture; 19th and 20th century Irish sculpture/painting; 18th-20th century European sculpture/painting.
