Ava Bush studies the transregional origins of the pictorial and spatial traditions undergirding early Japanese Esoteric Buddhist art and architecture. Drawing on ethnobiological inquiry, Ava investigates themes of embodiment, alchemy, gestation, and...
Alexis studies the intersection of photography and politics in the 20th century, with a focus on Germany during periods of authoritarianism. She is especially interested in researching state intervention into the development of color photography. Her...
Victoria studies the art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with particular interests in the French Revolution and Enlightenment thought. She graduated from UCLA with a BA in Art History, and holds an MA degree from Columbia University.
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Minkang conducts research on two subjects in Japanese Buddhist painting. One focuses on the concept of scale and its visual and religious implications, with a particular emphasis on Japanese nirvāṇa paintings. The other is the cultural and artistic...
Ruolin Gong studies early to medieval East Asian art, with a particular focus on Chinese and Korean material culture, dress, and interregional exchange. Her research centers on intermediality as evidence of contact, transmission, and reinvention, tracing...
John Sheehan studies the visual culture of early medieval South and Southeast Asia. His work focuses on the spread and development of Śaivism across the Deccan plateau and Indian Ocean, adopting an ecocritical approach to understand the relationship...
Alina Boying Huselid studies medieval and early modern Spanish art and its connections to northern Europe, especially the Low Countries. Her research spans painting, sculpture, and manuscripts, tied together by an interest in the visual environment...
Shireen Shah is a PhD student in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. She studies the transregional material exchanges of the early Islamic caliphates, particularly at their Eastern borders. Her research...
Erik Zou studies the visual culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. He is particularly interested in networks that connected artistic, scientific, and commercial forms of knowledge, and how these collaborations contributed to the development...
Santiago studies early modern art and visual culture in the Hispanic world with a dual focus on religious images—particularly as records and as agents in processes of conversion—and on the intersection of knowledge and art production in the sixteenth and...