Gordon Fyfe

Gordon Fyfe grew up in Lambeth, South London and lives in Warwickshire.

In 1967 he graduated in sociology at the University of Leicester and went on to pursue interests in the sociology of art and visual sociology as a Leicester postgraduate student. In 1971 he was appointed at the University of Keele where he taught sociology (including the sociology of art) for over thirty years. He has also taught on MA programmes in Victorian Studies and Cultural Studies.

Fyfe’s research interests have been primarily focused on the historical sociology of modern art institutions and museums as well as on visual sociology. His publications include Picturing Power (with John Law), Theorizing Museums (with Sharon Macdonald) and Art, Power and Modernity.

He has been a Managing Editor of The Sociological Review (Britain’s longest established journal of sociology) and has served on its board since 1975. He is a founding editor of Leicester University’s online and open access museums research journal Museum and Society, and is a member of the board of Museum History Journal.

He is currently writing an introductory textbook on the subject of museum studies.