Deborah Howard

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Deborah Janet Howard, FSA , FSA Scot , FRSE , FBA (born 1946) is a British art historian and academic. Her principal research interests are the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean, and music and architecture in the Renaissance. [1] She is Professor Emerita of Architectural History in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. [2]

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Degrees awarded

Deborah Howard read for a first class honours Bachelor of Arts degree, an Architecture and Fine Arts Tripos, at Newnham College, University of Cambridge from 1964 to 1968, gaining a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University in 1972.

Howard also earned an MA with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London where she studied from 1968–72 and was awarded her PhD by the University of London in 1973. [3] Whilst at the Courtauld, Deborah Howard contributed photographs [4] to the Conway Library that are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art as part of the Courtauld Connects project. [5]

She received the prestigious award of Honorary Doctorate of Letters (LittD) from University College Dublin in 2014. [6]

Professional life

University teaching and research posts

Professor Howard has spent the majority of her academic life at the University of Cambridge where she started her career becoming the Leverhulme Fellow in the History of Art, at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1972/3. She then taught and undertook research at University College London, the University of Edinburgh and the Courtauld Institute of Art. [7] [8]

In 1992, she returned to the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at Cambridge when she became a Fellow of St John’s College. From 2001 to 2013, she was Professor of Architectural History at the University of Cambridge and Head of Department of History of Art from 2002 to 2009. [2]

She has also held visiting appointments at Yale (Summer Term program in London), Harvard (Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Villa I Tatti in Florence), the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Smith College, Princeton, and the Universities of Melbourne and Queensland. [9]

Research projects

With Dr Mary Laven and Professor Abigail Brundin she was one of the principal investigators of a major interdisciplinary project, funded by a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council, 2013-2017, Domestic Devotions The Place of Piety in the Italian Renaissance Home, 1400-1600 [10] which has resulted in a number of publications. [11] Her most recent project Technological Invention & Architecture in the Veneto in the Early Modern Period was under the 2017-19 Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship. [2]

Expertise

Howard's book Venice & the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture demonstrated how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century trade with Muslim states (including Cairo, Damascus, Acre, Aleppo, Baghdad and Amman) were key to shaping the design of Venice: with Islamic patterns and shapes incorporated "symbolically" into architecture, city planning following demarcations of business and leisure seen in North African states, and new technologies for building domed roofs brought back alongside traded goods. [12] The book is illustrated with Howard's own photographs. [12]

Awards and honours

Howard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy FBA in 2010. [9] She has worked as a Council Member, on working groups, committees and is currently a peer reviewer for grant and fellowship applications in History of Art and Architecture. [3]

In 2021, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. [13]

A Festschrift Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and Its Territories, 1450–1750: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard was published in 2013. [14]

Community work

During her long career, Professor Howard has acted on numerous external academic committees as well as in more community based posts. For example, Professor Howard is a Trustee of the Venice in Peril Fund. [15] More locally she is School Governor of St John’s College School Cambridge having previously been a governor of St Margaret’s School in Edinburgh and the Perse School for Girls (now the Stephen Perse Foundation) in Cambridge. [16]

Personal life

Deborah Howard was born in Westminster, London on 26 February 1946. [3] She is married to the physicist Malcolm Longair and they have two grown-up children. [16] [3]

Selected publications

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  2. 1 2 3 mlr33@cam.ac.uk (17 August 2011). "Professor Deborah Howard, MA PhD Litt.D. FBA FRSE FSA FSA Scot Hon FRIAS — Department of History of Art". www.hoart.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Curriculum Vitae". 25 June 2012.
  4. ↑ "A&A | Duomo". www.artandarchitecture.org.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "Who made the Conway Library?". Digital Media. 30 June 2020. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  6. ↑ es597@cam.ac.uk. "Deborah Howard receives the award of the Honorary Doctorate of Letters (LittD) at University College Dublin. — Department of History of Art" . Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  7. ↑ 'HOWARD, Prof. Deborah Janet', Who's Who 2017 , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 24 July 2017
  8. ↑ "Professor Deborah Howard MA PhD FBA FSA FSA Scot Hon FRIAS FRSE". Department of Architecture. University of Cambridge. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Professor Deborah Howard FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "People – Domestic Devotions" . Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  11. ↑ "Project Publications – Domestic Devotions". Archived from the original on 4 June 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  12. 1 2 Morris, Jan (17 December 2000). "Observer review: Venice & the East by Deborah Howard". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  13. ↑ "The American Philosophical Society Welcomes New Members for 2021". American Philosophical Society. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
  14. ↑ "Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and Its Territories, 1450–1750: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard". Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and Its Territories, 1450–1750: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  15. ↑ "Venice In Peril - Trustees". www.veniceinperil.org. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  16. 1 2 "St John's College School, Cambridge. The School's Governors" (PDF).
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