Current research areas include: Medieval architecture; Italian late medieval and renaissance art and patronage; 18th- and 19th-century British art; the colonial encounter and cultural history in late 19th- and early 20th-centuries; museology; nationalism and ethnicity in contemporary visual culture; visual culture in South Africa; 19th- and 20th-century architecture and design in France and England; aspects of gender and visual culture; art and design in fin-de-si�e Vienna; art and music; computer applications for art history; digital media and critical theory.