Shane McCausland is Percival David Professor of the History of Art in the Department of History of Art & Archaeology at SOAS University of London. He was an undergraduate at Cambridge and completed his PhD at Princeton University in art history with East Asian studies. He has curated numerous art exhibitions in China, the USA and Europe and published widely in Chinese and East Asian art history. His latest monograph is The Art of the Chinese Picture-Scroll (Reaktion/Chicago). He is a member of the art history panel of the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. Currently a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2024–26), he is co-curator of an exhibition, ‘Genghis Khan and the Art of the Mongol World’, to be mounted in 2027 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.