Recent Graduates | The Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art

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

Cathy Zhu
MARY GRIGGS BURKE CENTER POST-DOCTORAL TEACHING FELLOW, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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

Xiaohan Du
Lecturer in the Discipline of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

Dissertation
On A Snowy Night: Yishan Yining (1247–1317) and the Development of Zen Calligraphy in Medieval Japan
Nina Horisaki-Christens
Mary Griggs Burke Center Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow, Columbia University

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 Associate Curator of Chinese Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dissertation
Yu Zhiding and the Envisioning of the Early Qing World
Yu Yang
Assistant 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
Associate Curator of Japanese Art, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Xue Lei
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ART HISTORY, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

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