Dr Paul Collins

MA, PhD, PGCE Hugh Price Fellow, Assistant Keeper for Ancient Near East, Ashmolean Museum paul.collins@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background

Studied at University College London as an undergraduate and a postgraduate student, and postgraduate teacher training at the Institute of Education, University of London. Worked as a curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the British Museum. Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Undergraduate Teaching

Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and history.

Postgraduate Teaching

Ancient Near Eastern archaeology and history.

Research Interests

The art of Mesopotamia, particularly representations of the supernatural world, and the transmission and adoption of artistic forms across the Near East; Neo-Assyrian reliefs and stamp seals; the history of collecting.

Links

See also Ashmolean Museum and Faculty of Oriental Studies websites.