Dr Sarah Thomas is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art department at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on slavery and visual culture, and the art history and museology of the British empire. Her monograph, Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition was published in 2019; other publications include: ‘The Spectre of Slavery in the British Art Museum’, American Art (Summer 2022); ‘The Art of Travel in the Name of Science: mobility and erasure in the art of Flinders’s Australian voyage, 1801-03’ (2020) and ‘“On the Spot”: Travelling Artists and Abolitionism, 1770-1830’ (Atlantic Studies, 2011). She is currently writing a book called Slavery and the British Art Collector, 1768-1833 (funded by the Leverhulme Trust). She was a curator in Australian art museums for many years.
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- Birkbeck University of London
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