Dr. Ruth Barnes is an art historian specializing in South and Southeast Asian textiles. Currently she is the Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, a member of the Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies, and a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. She previously worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum and as the textile curator at the Ashmolean Museum. In addition to her extensive curatorial background, she has lectured in the faculties of Oriental Studies and Anthropology at the University of Oxford and SOAS in London.

Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship participant
Fellowship Year: 2015