Alex Flagg

Alex [she/her] studies the religious art and material culture of Ethiopia. She is primarily interested in early modern manuscripts, as well as the collection histories of European institutions which hold them.

Her doctoral project investigates a group of Ethiopian manuscripts held in Edinburgh, combining Ethiopian art historical analysis with provenance research and postcolonial approaches to explore historical networks of knowledge and exchange between Scotland and Ethiopia.

Tutor for AH1001: Art in Europe and Beyond to 1600 and AH1003: Art in Europe and Beyond 1600-1800

Alex is the Network Administrator of the Africa-Scotland Art, History, Heritage (ASAHH) Network, a group dedicated to connecting researchers and museum professionals in institutions in Scotland and across the African continent.