Caroline Elam
Doctor of Arts (HonDArt)
Year conferred: 2005
Following a BA from the University of Oxford, an MA from the University of London’s Courtauld Institute, Caroline Elam was a Research Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, and taught art history before becoming the distinguished editor of the prestigious arts periodical The Burlington Magazine in 1987. She is now a director of the magazine. Caroline Elam is a respected external examiner in the History of Art and has organised numerous international conferences. She is considered an expert in Florentine architecture, art and patronage during the Renaissance, topics on which she lectures extensively in museums and universities internationally.
Caroline is currently a visiting professor at the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, Florence and was until 2004 the Andrew W Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies for the Visual Arts at the National Gallery, Washington, DC.
