Frank Salmon

Frank Edwin Salmon (born 8 June 1962) is an English architectural historian based at the University of Cambridge, where he was the President of St John’s College Cambridge until 2019. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum and a member of Historic England's Expert Advisory Group. Biography and works Salmon was born in Ipswich and educated at Northgate Grammar School for Boys, Downing College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He taught at the University of Manchester from 1989 to 2002 and as Adjunct Associate Professor for Yale University's Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London from 2002 to 2006. Since then he has taught in the Department of History of Art at Cambridge, where he succeeded David Watkin. He has been a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, since 2006. He won the Hawksmoor Essay Medal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 1992. In 2001 his book Building on Ruins was joint winner of the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society, and it also won the 2002 Spiro Kostof Prize of the American Society of Architectural Historians. In 2006 Salmon was the invited Plenary Speaker in Savannah, Georgia, at the annual meeting of the Society.