Jane Hawkes

{{short description|Art Historian and Medievalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Jane Hawkes | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100|FSA}} | image = Jane Hawkes in Rome.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | occupation = | awards = | alma_mater = Newcastle University | thesis_year = 1989 | thesis_title = The non-crucifixion iconography of the pre-Viking sculpture in the north of England :carvings at Hovingham, Masham, Rothbury, Sandbach and Wirksworth | thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/10443/379 | discipline = Archaeology<br>Art History | sub_discipline = Anglo-Saxon Sculpture | workplaces = University of York }} '''Jane Hawkes''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FSA}} is a British art historian. She is a Professor of History of Art at the University of York specialising in the art and sculpture of the Anglo-Saxon period.<ref name='UoY'>{{cite web |url=https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/staff/hawkes/#profile-content |title=Professor Jane Hawkes |publisher=University of York |accessdate=27 September 2019}}</ref>

==Career== Hawkes completed her PhD funded by a British Academy scholarship on the "Iconography of Anglo-Saxon sculpture of the pre-Viking period in the North of England". She subsequently worked on a 2-year post-Doctoral fellowship at the University of Newcastle. She has taught at the Universities of Newcastle, Edinburgh, and the National University of Ireland at University College Cork.<ref name='UoY' /> She is one of the co-investigators of the ''Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture'' project.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ascorpus.ac.uk/team.php |title=The Corpus Team |publisher=Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture |accessdate=27 September 2019}}</ref>

She was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in December 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/about-us/fellows-directory/H/page/6/#directory |title=Fellows Directory: Dr J Hawkes |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London|accessdate=27 September 2019}}</ref>

In April 2018, Hawkes delivered The Jennifer O'Reilly Memorial Lecture at the University of Cork.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucc.ie/en/media/academic/history/JenniferOReillyMemorialLecture2018reduced.pdf |title=Venerating the Cross around the year 800 in Anglo-Saxon England (The Jennifer O'Reilly Memorial Lecture University College Cork, 25 April 2018)|publisher=University College Cork |author1=Hawkes, J |accessdate=27 September 2019}}</ref>

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