Sebastian Tym

Sebastian (Seb) completed his PhD in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter in 2025. He currently works at the University of Exeter as a Postgraduate Teaching Associate (PTA) in the Art History department, as well as at the University of Plymouth, where he is an Associate Lecturer in the School of Society and Culture.

The recipient of numerous funding grants, such as the Company of Arts Charitable Scholars Award (2023), the Niklaus-Cartwright Scholarship (2024), and the Lord Blunkett Scholarship (2025), Seb is a specialist of the visual and material histories of warfare, soldiering, and fencing in modern and early modern Europe (c. 1517 - 1918). As an art historian, he is an expert in the life and work of the artist Gustave Doré.