Alfie Robinson, M.A.

Alfie Robinson is a predoctoral fellow in the Lise-Meitner Group “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History” and doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews. He holds a BA degree in art history from the University of Cambridge. His MA degree at the University of York, supported by a fee-waiver scholarship, specialised in perceptions of architecture in pre modernity. Since then he has worked as a heritage consultant on a range of building conservation projects across the UK, from small sites to large-scale projects in central London. He has published on conservation theory and practice, art and architectural history. His doctoral project explores the motivations, customs and culture of looting from the perspective of military actors in the years around 1500, examining the ‘legitimisation’ of looting and its role in the destruction of cultural heritage. He is jointly supervised by Francesca Borgo and Elsje van Kessel.