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ProfessorMary Roberts

Professor of Art History & Nineteenth Century Studies

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

  • Professor of Art History & Nineteenth Century Studies
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTs

  • European, especially British, art of the Nineteenth Century
  • Gender, Orientalism, the history and culture of travel
  • Ottoman art in the Nineteenth Century and cultural exchange with European artists

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Drawing as a media technology, 1850-1890
    DVC Research1 Jan 2023
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Mary Roberts - SRRRP DVCR-832
    DVC Research1 Jan 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Artists as collectors of the Islamic Arts, 1850-1910
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Islamic art, museology and transcultural artist-dealer networks, 1850-1910
    Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art1 Jan 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Istanbul Exchanges
    Australian Academy of the Humanities1 Jan 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Orientalism, Masculinity, Museology: Nineteenth-century artists as collectors of Islamic Decorative arts
    School of Letters, Art and Media, University of Sydney1 Jan 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Gender and Modernity Research Group
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2011
    People funded by this grant:
    • Lusty N,
    • Hickey-Moody A,
    • Jayamanne L,
    • Roberts M,
    • Gatens M
  • GRANT
    Peripheral Horizons: Reinterpreting Orientalist visual culture through a comparative study of womens Orientalism in Australia, the USA and Europe, 1855-1914
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    The Gender and Modernity Research Group
    Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences1 Jan 2010
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Challenging Regional Orientalisms
    DVC Research1 Jan 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and nineteenth-century visual culture
    The Clark Art Institute1 Jan 2009
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Artistic Exchanges in Nineteenth Century Istanbul
    Getty Foundation (USA)8 Sep 2008
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Elite Ottoman Women and Artistic Patronage in Istanbul in the 1870s
    University of Sydney (CHASS)1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Refashioning Images of Empire: British Artists/Ottoman Patrons
    Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University1 Jan 2006
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Intimate Outsiders. The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Writing
    University of Sydney1 Jan 2005
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Conference Session Convenor and Presenter: Exotic Inversions: Egyptian Royal Women and the Orientalism Debate and Session Convenor: Writing Feminist Art Histories
    University of Sydney (CHASS)1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Illustrations subsidy for book: Edges of Empire (Blackwells, 2005)
    Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Illustrations subsidy for book: Edges of Empire (Blackwells, 2005)
    Australian Academy of the Humanities1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    The Other Orient. Reinterpreting Orientalist Art by studying the priorities of Ottoman painters and patrons in Constantinople 1839-1909.
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jan 2003
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
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    Edges of Empire: British Art and the Orientalism Debate
    Center for British Art, Yale University1 Jan 2002
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    Patterns of patronage: An inquiry into the Orientalist paintings of Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann
    DVC Research1 Jan 2001
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M
  • GRANT
    The Politics of Portraiture Behind the Veil
    University of Sydney (CHASS)1 Jan 2001
    People funded by this grant:
    • Roberts M