Suhyun ChoiDissertationTransnational Socialism and the Development of Modern Art in North Korea
On-Tsun FungOn-Tsun studies early modern Japanese ink painting and is particularly interested in how ink painters in Japan negotiated their relationship with their Chinese counterparts.
Yuri HandaYuri studies the history of photography in modern Japan, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of imperial/colonial nation-building and photography as reproductive visualizing technology.
Hae Yeun KimDissertationUnkoku Tōgan (1547–1618) and Painting in Early Modern Western Japan
Naomi KuromiyaDissertationFinding the Past in the Future: Tracing 'the Integrated Artwork' in Modern Japan
Meng-Hsuan LeeDissertationShop-House, Verandah-Arcade, Decorated Façade: An Excavation of Commercial Architecture in Japanese Colonial Taiwan
Walsh MilletteWalsh is interested in avenues of exchange between pre-modern China and Japan, especially as they touch on ideas of space, place, architecture, and the painting genre of jiehua.
Sehyun OhDissertationThe Land Surveyors from the Outside: Documentation of Immigrants in an American Northwest Environment by Kyō Koike and Iwao Matsushita, c. 1920-1940
Misaki SanuiMisaki studies early modern Japanese art, with a particular focus on the various modes of production and reception of ceramics and other art objects within the material culture of chanoyu.
Yeongik SeoDissertationKano Sanraku (1559-1635) and New Iconography for Early Modern Kyoto
Kanako TajimaKanako studies transnational artistic interaction between Japanese and American modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on the works of Japanese female artists who moved to the U.S. in the 1960s.
Valerie ZinnerDissertationSumiyoshi Gukei and Early Modern Yamato-e
