Christina Faraday

Dr Christina Faraday, FRHistS, is a historian of art and ideas, specialising in Tudor and Stuart Britain and the wider 16th and 17th-century world. She is a Research Fellow in History of Art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, a Trustee of the Walpole Society for British art history, and a BBC New Generation Thinker, appearing regularly on BBC Radio 3 and in other popular media. Her first book, Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England, was published in 2023 by the Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press.

Experience

  • 2019–present
    AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, AHRC/BBC
  • 2020–present
    Research Fellow in History of Art, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Education

  • 2019 
    University of Cambridge, PhD in History of Art

Publications

  • 2023
    Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England, Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press

Professional Memberships

  • Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Contact Christina for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision