Current Graduate Students

Yuxin’s research revolves around the visual and material culture of late-medieval East Asia, with a specific focus on China's Jiangnan region during the Yuan dynasty. She is interested in how Chinese art production under Mongol rule negotiated the boundaries between the local and the global and, more broadly, in how visual culture reflected and responded to the empire’s management of difference.

Philippe examines the relationships between shifting socioeconomic conditions, the articulation of Japan as a nation, and landscape painting in the early modern period.

Xiaoyang's research focuses on the art of early Middle period China, with a particular emphasis on the workshop system for funerary art production, the construction of sacred spaces in North China, the rock-carving tradition in East Asia, and the cultural exchange between China and the Sassanian Empire.

Maxwell’s research examines the semiotic functions of botanical and avian imagery in early modern Japanese painting, with a particular focus on kachō-ga (花鳥画).

Walsh 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.

Mary's research focuses on Qing dynasty architecture, examining the relationship between architectural spaces and their design, construction, and depictions. She is interested in the historic transmission of architectural practices and technology across East Asia, as well as the preservation of wooden architecture.