Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth is an art historian, writer and curator specialising in the visual and material cultures of early modern Europe. She is Lecturer in French and British History of Art, c.1600-1900 at the University of Edinburgh. From August 2023 she will be Programme Director for the MSc Global Premodern Art: History, Heritage and Curation at Edinburgh.

Caroline holds a PhD from the University of Leeds and is currently writing two books, one on the art collector, linguist and philanthropist Lady Charlotte Schreiber with Lund Humphries (2024), and a forthcoming monograph Sèvres-mania: The Craft of Ceramics Connoisseurship for Bloomsbury Academic (2025). 

Caroline was previously Curator of 1600-1800 Ceramics & Glass at the V&A Museum, London and former Curator of The Chitra Collection. She has published and lectured widely, holding teaching roles at University of Leeds, Royal College of Art, University of Buckingham, and University of Sunderland. She is available for consultant work and sits on various Advisory and Trustee Boards including Art UK, Furniture History Society, English Ceramics Circle and the French Porcelain Society.