Jiwon Lee studies the interpenetrating relationship between art and science by focusing on early modern metal sculpture. Perceiving each work as a compound of form, material, and technology, she explores how traveling metal sculptures contributed to the...
Emma Harutyunyan's professional focus is on early modern Armenian art, with a particular emphasis on Armenian religious textiles. She has a background in curation and cultural management. Her research centers on the intersection of trade networks...
Jess Chen studies modern art with a focus on Central Asia. Her research engages with nomadic philosophies; concepts of nationhood and empire; relationships between material culture, tactility, and avant-garde practices; and histories of ornament.
Before...
Adam Chen is a historian and curator of American art from approximately 1750 to 1850. Taking a global, intercultural approach, his research interests include the artist Benjamin West (1738 - 1820) and his Anglo-American contemporaries, Chinese export...
Cameron Chacon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture focusing on ancient Greek material culture. They are particularly interested in visual humor and representations of women, satyrs, and Amazons on vases from the Archaic...
Fernando Casamayor Molina studies the archaeological landscape of Iraq during the early Islamic period. His research explores how urbanism and architecture reflect broader questions of inequality, state formation, and social control. He earned his...
Lauren Ehrmann's research focuses on North African and Andalusian manuscripts. She is interested in depictions of urban space, travel, cross-cultural exchange, and the relationship between manuscripts and the body. Prior to attending Harvard, Lauren was...
Luci Williams’ studies are animated by an interest in textiles: their design, production, and the lives of the people–and animals–that make them. She looks forward to exploring this in the context of Soviet Central Asia.
A graduate of Oberlin College...
Hiroki conducts research on two subjects in early modern Japanese paintings. One focuses on the stylistic changes in the work of Maruyama Ōkyo, active in eighteenth-century Kyoto, and the way in which they correspond to his relationships with different...
Byron studies visual culture between Europe and America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His research interests extend from the cultural centers of northern and central Europe to the Ibero-American world, focusing particularly on their entwined...