Current Graduate Students

  • Suhyun Choi
    Dissertation

    Styling Socialism: The Politics of Ornamentality and the Creation of Modern Socialist Visual Culture in North Korea, 1948–1967

  • Philippe Depairon

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

  • On-Tsun Fung
    Dissertation

    Ito Jakuchu as Obaku Zen Monk: Between Sekihoji and Kaihoji

  • Yuri Handa
    Dissertation

    Lens Across Boundaries: Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) and His Photographic Journey in Meiji Japan

  • Meng-Hsuan Lee
    Dissertation

    Shop-House, Verandah-Arcade, Decorated Façade: An Excavation of Commercial Architecture in Japanese Colonial Taiwan

  • Xiaoyang Ma

    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.

  • Walsh Millette

    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 Rzepczynski

    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.

  • Misaki Sanui
    Dissertation

    Object, Image, Echo: The Making of Hon'ami Koetsu's Tea Bowls and Their Aesthetic Legacy

  • Yeongik Seo
    Dissertation

    Timeless Nostalgia: Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539–1610) and the Formation of Momoyama Aesthetics

  • Kanako Tajima
    Dissertation

    Between Tokyo, California, and New York: Feminist Transnational Art Practice by Women Artists from Japan in the 1970s-1980s