Rosalind Polly Blakesley

Rosalind Polly Blakesley
Blakesley at her inauguration as Master of Pembroke College (Oct 2025)
OccupationAcademic
SpousePatrick James Blakesley
Children2
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford, University of Cambridge

Rosalind Polly Blakesley (née Gray) is a prize-winning author, art historian and academic, and the current Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has taught art history at the University of Cambridge, been a Fellow of Pembroke College since 2002, and a Professor of Russian and European Art since 2018. She previously worked at The Queen's College, Oxford, the Russian Institute of Art History, Newcastle University, and the University of Kent.