Professor Ludmilla Jordanova

Ludmilla Jordanova is a historian and writer with an interest in museums, cultural history, interdisciplinary scholarship, public history and contemporary culture. She has held chairs at the University of Essex, University of York, King's College London, and Durham University, where she is Emeritus Professor of History and Visual Culture. Her training was at Cambridge in history and philosophy of science and at Essex in art history and theory.

Between 2001 and 2009 she was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London, and more recently of the Science Museum Group (2011-21).  Books since 2010 include The Look of the Past: Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice (2012); Physicians and their Images (2018) and History in Practice (3rd edition, 2019).  Ludmilla lives in the Scottish Borders and is currently writing about the ethical dimensions of historical practice and the intricate relationships between portraits and biographies.