Located at Roper House, close to the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland, the Zurbarán Centre is led by its Director, Professor Claudia Hopkins and administered by Mrs Barbara Jackson. The Centre is a research unit of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Durham University. Its interdisciplinary remit is reflected in the composition of its steering group, comprising scholars from six different Durham University departments and the Senior Curator of Spanish art at The Auckland Project. The Centre's international Advisory Board meets once a year.
The Centre's steering group meets three times a year at Durham University and is currently composed of the following members:
Claudia HopkinsDirector
James KellyDepartment of Theology and Religion
Yari Perez MarinSchool of Modern Languages and Cultures
Giles GasperDepartment of History
Chris GerrardDepartment of Archaeology
Hector SequeraDepartment of Music
Tom StammersDepartment of History
Janet StewartSchool of Modern Languages and Cultures
Santiago Fouz HernandezSchool of Modern Languages and Cultures
Liz WallerDirector of Library and Collections
Director from 2017 - 2020Stefano Cracolici
Amaya Alzaga Ruiz Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Piers Baker-Bates Open University
Véronique Gerard Powell Sorbonne Université
Giovanna Capitelli Università Roma Tre
Adam Jasienski Southern Methodist University