Recent Graduates

  • Sehyun Oh

    Adjunct Professor, University of Georgia

    Dissertation

    Adaptive Beings: Japanese American Art and Environment, 1923–1943

  • Hae Yeun Kim

    Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brooklyn Museum

    Dissertation

    Unkoku Tōgan (1547–1618) and East Asia: Art and Patronage in Early Modern Western Japan

  • Naomi Kuromiya

    Senior Research Associate, Japan Society Gallery

    Dissertation

    The Collapse of Past and Present: Tracing “Integrated Art” in Modern Japan

  • Valerie Zinner

    Core Lecturer, Columbia University

    Dissertation

    Illustrated Legends of the Two Masters: Sumiyoshi Gukei’s Early Modern Engi Emaki

  • Cathy Zhu

    Core Lecturer, Columbia University

    Dissertation

    Born in a Golden Light: Art, Omens, and Succession in the Southern Song (1127-1279)

  • Xiaohan Du

    John H. Foster Assistant Curator of Pre-Modern Asian Art, Asia Society

    Dissertation

    On A Snowy Night: Yishan Yining (1247–1317) and the Development of Zen Calligraphy in Medieval Japan

  • Nina Horisaki-Christens
    Dissertation

    VIDEO HIROBA: Contingent Publics and Video Communication, 1966–1985

  • Jens Bartel
    Dissertation

    Style, Space and Meaning in the Large-Scale Landscape Paintings by Maruyama Ōkyo (1733-1795)

  • Carrie Cushman

    Edith Dale Monson Gallery Director and Curator at the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford

    Dissertation

    Temporary Ruins: Miyamoto Ryūji’s Architectural Photography in Postmodern Japan.

  • Maggie Mustard

    Assistant Curator of Photography, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library

    Dissertation

    Atlas Novus: Kawada Kikuji’s Chizu (The Map) and Postwar Japanese Photography

  • Joseph Scheier-Dolberg

    Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang Curator of Chinese Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Dissertation

    Yu Zhiding and the Envisioning of the Early Qing World

  • Yu Yang

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University

    Dissertation

    At the Crossroads of Japanese Modernism and Colonialism: Architecture and Urban Space in Manchuria, 1900–1945

  • Talia Andrei

    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY, WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY

    Dissertation

    Mapping Sacred Spaces: Representations of Pleasure and Worship in Shaji sankei mandara

  • Heather Clydesdale

    Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University

    Dissertation

    The Jiuquan Tombs: Reordering Art and Ideas on China’s Frontier

  • Frank Feltens

    Curator of Japanese Art Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

    Dissertation

    Ogata Kōrin 1658–1716 and the Possibilities of Painting in Early Modern Japan

  • Sandrine Larrivé-Bass

    CORE LECTURER FOR ART HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

    Dissertation

    Embodied Materials: The Emergence of Figural Imagery in Prehistoric China

  • Aaron Rio

    Tateuchi Foundation curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Seattle Art Museum

    Dissertation

    Ink Painting in Medieval Kamakura

  • Chun-Yi Tsai
    Dissertation

    Imagining the Supernatural Grotesque: Paintings of Zhong Kui and Demons in the Late Southern Song (1127-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) Dynasties

  • Soyoung Lee

    Barbara Bass Bakar Director, CEO, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

  • Xue Lei

    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

    Dissertation

    The Elusive Crane: Memory, Metaphor and a Stone Monument from Sixth Century China