We are delighted to announce two new appointments at The Courtauld to oversee the development and teaching of the new MA in Art and Business, launching in academic year 2025/26.
Starting this September, Dr Thomas Stammers will be joining us as Reader in Art and Cultural History. Tom is currently Associate Professor (Modern European Cultural History) in the Department of History at the University of Durham. He is the author of The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Cultures in Post-Revolutionary Paris (2020), which won the 2020 Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society for the best first book on non-British history.
In October, he will be joined by Stephanie Dieckvoss as Senior Lecturer in Art History. Stephanie is currently an Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins (UAL), and has formerly directed the Art Business programme at the Kingston School of Art. She has over fifteen years’ worth of experience in the commercial art world and in art fairs, and is the London art market correspondent for the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
Professor Mark Hallett, Märit Rausing Director, The Courtauld, said: ‘We are thrilled to have recruited these two wonderful scholars and teachers to lead The Courtauld’s exciting new MA in Art and Business. I look forward to working with them both when they join us in the autumn, and to seeing them take this programme forward in ambitious and pioneering directions.’