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Professor Dame

Jessica Rawson

University of Oxford
Art scholar; Archeologist; Museum curator; Educator; Academic administrator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
2012
International Honorary Member
Leading art historian of ancient Chinese art and long-time, renowned keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. Research focuses in particular on the cosmology of the Han period (206 BCE-220 CE) and its relation to tombs and their decoration. Involved in a number of high-profile exhibitions such as the Mysteries of Ancient China. Contributed, in collaboration with Evelyn S. Rawski and others, to the catalogue of China: The Three Emperors by Frances Wood that accompanied the exhibition at the Royal Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts in London (2005-06). Member of the scholars' council of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and a member of the Art Fund's Advisory Council. Fellow of the British Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of services to oriental studies.
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