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Shane McCausland is the Percival David Professor of the History of Art in the Department of History of Art & Archaeology, School of Arts, College of Humanities, at SOAS University of London. From 2018-2022, he served as Head of the School of Arts and was a member of the university's Executive Board.
McCausland's research focuses on:
- Visual arts and material cultures of China and East/Northeast Asia
- Arts of the Mongol world
- Narrative arts, particularly Chinese picture-scrolls
- Visual cultures of Yuan China (1271-1368)
- Cross-cultural artistic exchanges along the Silk Road
His recent work includes "The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll" (2023) and "The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368" (2015), which appeared in Chinese in 2024. In 2024-26, he is a Leverhulme Research Fellow working on an exhibition of the arts of the Mongol world across Eurasia in the long thirteenth century, to be mounted at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in spring 2027.
His scholarly output demonstrates significant engagement with:
- Chinese art history from ancient to modern periods
- Cross-cultural transmission between China and Japan
- Material culture of the Mongol Empire
- Visual literacy in understanding historical Chinese art
- Narrative techniques in Chinese visual arts
McCausland has received recognition including a Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2024-26).
He actively supervises PhD students working on topics related to the arts of the Mongol world and Chinese visual culture. His current advisees include researchers examining Mao's visual representation, literati identity in 19th-century China, Cantonese artistic traditions, and Silk Road photography.
McCausland is affiliated with the SOAS China Institute and contributes to research on cultural heritage.
