Liz James

She received an undergraduate degree at the University of Durham in Ancient History and Archaeology.

She completed a master's degree in Byzantine studies at the University of Birmingham.

She received her doctorate at the Courtauld Institute in London in 1989, studying under Robin Cormack.

[2] Upon completion, she embarked on postdoctoral fellowships, notably at the Barber Institute.

She has written extensively on mosaics, discussing practical, iconographic and materialistic approaches to the subject.