Rate My Professor Abigail Harrison Moore

Professor Abigail Harrison Moore is Professor of Art History and Museum Studies in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures at the University of Leeds. She earned an MA in History of Art from the University of St Andrews in 1994, a Postgraduate Diploma in Art Gallery and Museum Studies from the University of Manchester in 1995, and a PhD from the University of Southampton in 2001 with a thesis titled ‘Imagining Egypt: The Harewood Regency Furniture Collections’. Since joining the University of Leeds in 1996, she has co-developed the MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies and the MA in Arts Management and Heritage Studies. As a founding member of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage and the Centre for Collaborative Heritage Research, she has supervised numerous PhDs in her research fields. Harrison Moore leads Art Teachers Connect, a network supporting over 250 art and art history teachers serving more than 40,000 students weekly in UK state schools, and co-directs the Registrars Project in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries and the Royal Armouries.

Her research focuses on nineteenth-century art and design, the Arts and Crafts Movement, energy and environmental history, the art market, creative education for young people, and museums, heritage, and galleries. Notable publications include the monograph Fraud, Fakery and False Business: Re-thinking the Shrager v. Dighton 'Old Furniture Case' (Continuum, 2011) and the co-edited volume In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021). She has guest-edited special issues such as Off-Grid Empire: Rural Energy Consumption in Britain and the British Empire, 1850–1960 in History of Retail and Consumption and contributed to journals on gender and energy cultures. Awards include NEON recognition for widening access contributions (2021), the International Society for Education in Art Advocacy Award for Art Teachers Connect (2025), an AHRC Research Development and Engagement Fellowship (2022), and the Association for Art History Fellowship (2026). Her public engagement includes contributions to the BBC4 documentary Victorian Sensations: Electric Dreams (2019) and the Whose Power? podcast series.