Renaissance Worlds

Geraldine A. Johnson received a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale, an MA in Art History from Cambridge, and a PhD in History of Art from Harvard. She has been awarded a number of prestigious grants and fellowships, including from the Harvard Society of Fellows, Leverhulme Trust, Henry Moore Foundation, Fulbright Commission, Mellon Foundation, and Harvard’s Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa i Tatti in Florence. In 2026, she is a Visiting Professor (Professeur Invitée) at the Sorbonne’s Centre André Chastel (CNRS) in Paris. She has served four times as Head of Oxford’s History of Art Department and is currently an Elected Member of the University's Governing Council. She has also been Associate Head of Oxford’s Humanities Division and has held a number of senior positions at her Oxford college (Christ Church), including Senior Censor (Academic Head and Co-Deputy Head of College), Junior Censor (oversight of welfare), and Tutor for Admissions. She received a University Teaching Prize for her work in establishing Oxford's undergraduate degree in History of Art. Leah Clark is an Associate Professor in the History of Art and a Fellow of Kellogg College as well as Director of Studies in History of Art. Previously, she worked at the Open University where her roles included Head of Research and Chair of the MA in Art History. She holds a BA from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver,) an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art (London) and a PhD from McGill University (Montreal).