Dr Thomas Stammers
Associate Professor in Modern European History, University of Durham
Assistant Professor (Modern European Cultural History)
Durham University
+44 (0) 191 33 41071
Tom Stammers is a cultural historian of France in the long nineteenth century. His forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Cultures in Post-Revolutionary Paris, explores the politics of collecting, the art market and cultural heritage in nineteenth-century France. He continues to publish work related to nineteenth-century collecting, connoisseurship, museum institutions and the historiography of art, with a particular interest in the work of Francis Haskell. He also publishes on the tangible traces, cultural memory and historiography of the French Revolution.
