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Altair Brandon-Salmon is a lecturer in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education at Stanford University. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in art history from the University of Oxford and a doctorate from Stanford. He has written widely for popular audiences on modern art for leading national arts magazines, including America, Commonweal, Literary Review, Oxford Review of Books, and Public Seminar.

His scholarship on art and the Second World War has been published in the three most prestigious art history academic journals, Art History, Art Journal, and the Oxford Art Journal. Simultaneously, he is a guest curator for the gallery Projects Twenty Two, where he curated the 2025 show Jethro Jackson: Moor Lands. Previously, he has been a curator for the Sheldonian Theatre and Campion Hall at Oxford. Bringing art to different audiences, from giving lectures to curating exhibitions and writing for national magazines, has been central to showing how it can transport and transform viewers.

Altair’s first book will be published by Oneworld in 2027, and explores art during the Blitz.