Suhyun ChoiDissertationStyling Socialism: The Politics of Ornamentality and the Creation of Modern Socialist Visual Culture in North Korea, 1948–1967
Philippe DepaironPhilippe examines the relationships between shifting socioeconomic conditions, the articulation of Japan as a nation, and landscape painting in the early modern period.
On-Tsun FungDissertationIto Jakuchu as Obaku Zen Monk: Between Sekihoji and Kaihoji
Yuri HandaDissertationLens Across Boundaries: Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) and His Photographic Journey in Meiji Japan
Meng-Hsuan LeeDissertationShop-House, Verandah-Arcade, Decorated Façade: An Excavation of Commercial Architecture in Japanese Colonial Taiwan
Xiaoyang MaXiaoyang'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.
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.
Mary RzepczynskiMary'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.
Misaki SanuiDissertationObject, Image, Echo: The Making of Hon'ami Koetsu's Tea Bowls and Their Aesthetic Legacy
Yeongik SeoDissertationTimeless Nostalgia: Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539–1610) and the Formation of Momoyama Aesthetics
Kanako TajimaDissertationBetween Tokyo, California, and New York: Feminist Transnational Art Practice by Women Artists from Japan in the 1970s-1980s
