Krisztina Ilko is a Junior Research Fellow at Queens' College and Affiliated Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford in conjunction with Trinity College, Oxford, and a Mellon Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She completed her PhD as a Lander Scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, from which she spent the last two years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
