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Dr Steven Parissien

Dean of Degrees, Fellow, Ordinary Fellow

Lecturer in Architectural History

Oxford Lifelong Learning

DPhil (Oxford)

Dr Steven Parissien is a cultural historian and Departmental Lecturer in architectural history. He obtained both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from University College, Oxford.

Steven has worked as a senior manager and CEO in the heritage, arts and education sectors for over thirty years, including as Deputy Director at Yale University’s Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, Dean of Arts, Humanities and Architecture and Professor of Architectural History at the University of Plymouth, and Director/Chief Executive at Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park in Warwickshire.

Steven has written sixteen single-authored books to date, most recently Building Britannia (2023), Another Round? A History of Postwar Britain in Twelve Drinks (2025), A Grand Tour of Georgian Britain (due 2026) and Trafalgar Square: The Biography (due 2027). His current research projects include Regency Britain and American drinking habits after Prohibition, along with a memoir of the outer reaches of the Metropolitan Line.