Shane McCausland is 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 2018-22 he was Head of the School of Arts and served as a member of the university’s Executive Board. As an undergraduate he read Oriental Studies (Chinese) at Cambridge University and received his PhD in Art History with East Asian Studies from Princeton University in 2000. He has curated exhibitions in China, Europe and the North America and published widely on Chinese and East Asian arts. His most recent books include The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll (Reaktion/Chicago, 2024) and The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368 (Reaktion/Hawaii, 2015). The latter appeared in Chinese in 2024 as Menggu shiji (Sanlian). 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.
Research Interests
Visual arts and material cultures of China and of East and Northeast Asia; arts of the Mongol world; narrative arts.
