David Crowley is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and the University of Brighton. He also studied at the Cracow Academy of Art in Poland in the 1980s. He taught at Staffordshire University and the University of Brighton before joining the RCA in 1999. As former Deputy Head of the Department of Design History, senior tutor in the Department of Historical and Critical Studies and now Professor and Head of the Department of Critical Writing in Art & Design, he teaches aspects of cultural history in the 19th century and 20th century with a particular focus on the way everyday objects are inscribed with ideology and explores the ways in which currents like nationalism shape material culture. He has been the recipient of research grants from the British Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy.

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