Isabelle is an Assistant Professor and Interdisciplinary Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Aberdeen. She is the Co-Director for The Centre for the North, the Operations Manager for the AHRC-DFA North-Sea Heritage in Transitions, and sits on the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Social and Human Working Group.
Awarded her PhD in History of Art from the University of York in 2019, Isabelle’s first book, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 (2024) was published by Lund Humphries as part of their Northern Lights series. Her second book, Arctic Visual Cultures in Historical Perspectives, co-authored with Jonathan Peyton, is under contract with Cambridge Elements for the Arctic and Antarctic Studies series.
She researches and teaches at the intersection of landscape painting, environmental history, and climate change around the Arctic and Circumpolar North from 1850 to the present day. Her work has, among others, received support from the AHRC, British Academy, NERC Arctic Office, New Foundation for Art History, Jackman Humanities Institute, the Royal Patriotic Society of Sweden, the International Commission of the History of Oceanography (ICHO), MEOPAR and the Association for Art History.
Isabelle is accepting PhD and Post-doc enquiries! If you have a project you’d like to discuss please get in touch.
For more information on her current research please see the CV page. Or contact at: icbgapp@gmail.com // isabelle.gapp@abdn.ac.uk
