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Dr. Tania Tribe is Senior Lecturer in Art History at SOAS University of London's Department of Art and Archaeology. Trained in medicine before transitioning to art history, she holds an MD from UGF Rio de Janeiro, MA from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and PhD from the University of Essex.
Her research focuses on Christian visual cultures in Northeast Africa (Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia) from antiquity to the 18th century. She co-directed the exhibition 'The Indigenous and the Foreign: Art and Architecture of 17th Century Ethiopia' and leads archaeological fieldwork at the Gannata Maryam rock-cut church complex.
Key research dimensions:
- Trans-regional artistic networks along Silk/Red Sea routes
- Apocalyptic imagery in Nubian frescoes
- Gender representation in Ethiopian royal manuscripts
- Brazilian popular art traditions
She established Erasmus exchanges with Leiden University and maintains collaborations with archaeological teams documenting Christian sites in Ethiopia's Ger'alta region.
