Trevor Menders

Trevor works broadly on the history of Japanese art from the medieval through modern periods. His dissertation investigates depictions of live performance at the turn of the 17th century, reaching across disciplines to bring together critical study of the visual and stage arts. Trevor’s research on related topics has garnered recognition from the Japan Art History Forum’s Chino Kaori Memorial Prize, Harvard University’s Bowdoin Prize, and the Asiatic Society of Japan’s Young Scholars’ Programme.

Trevor holds a BA cum laude with departmental honors in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Before Harvard, he held fellowships in association with Tokyo University of the Arts, the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as worked with Joan B Mirviss LTD Japanese Fine Arts, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the Kyoto National Museum. He is currently a Tyler Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, having completed dissertation fieldwork at Osaka University with support from Fulbright-IIE and the Met Center for Far Eastern Art Studies.