Erin Griffey
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Erin Griffey is an academic historian and Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland. She works on the culture of the Stuart court in England and 17th-century material culture.
She gained a PhD in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 2001 with a thesis titled "The Artist's Roles: Searching for self-portraiture in the seventeenth-century Netherlands".[1] Griffey has taught at the University of Auckland since 2002. She was elected as a fellow of the Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London, in 2019.[2][3]
Griffey and chemist Michél Nieuwoudt have researched the history of cosmetics, recreating renaissance medical recipes as the "Beautiful Chemistry Project".[4][5][6]
