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Rate My Professor Mary Roberts

University of Sydney

#4,048 worldwide#3,934 in Australia

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4.08/20/2025

Fair, constructive, and always motivating.

4.05/21/2025

Makes even the toughest topics accessible.

5.03/31/2025

Passionate about student development.

4.02/27/2025

Helps students unlock their full potential.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Mary

Professor Mary Roberts serves as Professor of Art History and Nineteenth-Century Studies and the John Schaeffer Professor of Art History in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. She obtained her BA (Hons) from the University of Sydney and her PhD from the University of Melbourne. Roberts is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA), elected in 2016. Her research specializations encompass nineteenth-century British and Ottoman art, with particular expertise in cosmopolitanism, global art histories, and late Ottoman visual culture. Throughout her career at the University of Sydney, she has held key academic appointments, including leadership in research projects funded by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), such as the SRRRP grant in 2018. She has convened the Art History Seminar Series and contributed to the Power Institute activities.