DOROTHY ARMSTRONG
Contact
Email: dorothy.armstrong@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
Academia.edu: Dorothy Armstrong
Biography
Dr Dorothy Armstrong is a historian of material culture with a special interest in the carpets of Asia. She was formerly the May Beattie Visiting Fellow in Carpet Studies at the Ashmolean. As Honorary Research Associate in the Eastern Art Department of the Museum, she investigates the Ashmolean’s carpets and carpet-related archives in support of her ongoing work to uncover the participation of Asian rugs in global history.
She previously taught the History of Design MA at the Royal College of Art/V&A, and the Master of Fine Art at Edinburgh University’s College of Art.
She received her PhD from the Royal College of Art and was the recipient of the V&A’s Clive Wainwright Prize, and the British Institute of Middle Eastern Studies/Abdullah al-Mubarak al-Sabah Scholarship. She was educated at the University of Cambridge, London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and the Royal College of Art/V&A.
