Dr Sophie Pickford

Dr. Sophie Pickford is an Art Historian affiliated to King’s College, Cambridge, where she is an ASCR. Dr. Pickford graduated with Starred First Class Honours in History of Art from King’s, where she was a Scholar and recipient of the Rylands Prize. She was awarded both AHRC funding and a St. John’s College Benefactors’ Scholarship for her PhD research into Renaissance French Château Interiors, supervised by Professor Jean Michel Massing. Following this, Sophie became a Junior Research Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, and was a Research Associate for an AHRC-funded project led by Professor Deborah Howard. Sophie then moved into law, working as a lawyer for several years before returning to Academia. She now works in Cambridge on Bloomsbury Art and the Ballet, teaching and lecturing in the History of Art Department at the University of Cambridge.