John DeVoy is a first-year PhD student interested in the peripheral regions of the Early Byzantine world and their representation of local heterodoxy versus imperial orthodoxy through miniatures, wall paintings, and icons. He is also interested in the influence these peripheral communities exerted across the Silk Road, particularly in the context of Manichaeism and so-called 'Gnostic' movements.... Read more about John DeVoy
Jordan’s research investigates networks of cultural transmission between France and Italy—outside the institutional venues of art academies—that led to the development of an increasingly homogenized visual language of European aristocratic and princely culture over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.... Read more about Jordan Hallmark
Ramón Mujica Pinilla is a member of the National Academy of History of Peru and a corresponding member of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Argentina. He has specialized in Peruvian viceregal iconography and the artistic processes of religious syncretism in the southern Andes.... Read more about Ramón Mujica
April studies Buddhist art and visual culture of medieval East Asia. She is particularly interested in art's role in the visualization of processes that concern the conceiving and sustaining of life beyond the physical body. Her past projects have focused on Buddhist cave temples and devotional objects of medieval China and materials of early Japanese Buddhist art.... Read more about April Peng
Ayesha Usman Shaikh’s research interests pertain to Indian Ocean and Red Sea material and cross-cultural interactions between Gujarat and Egypt during the 13th through 16th centuries. Prior to attending Harvard, she was a research fellow at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and held a graduate internship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where she researched Indo-Egyptian textile fragments.
