Rachel M. Tang studies the history and theory of socially engaged art practices, with a particular interest in artists who touch upon issues of pedagogy and ecology.
Before coming to Harvard, Rachel received her B.A. in Art History from the University of...
Rachel Hirsch studies the cultural history of early modern South Asia. Her research is geared towards understanding the construction of cities and gardens, theorizing urbanism and territoriality, and experimenting with new research methods. Rachel has...
Alexandra Dennett studies modern art and the history of photography. Her dissertation examines how photographs both represent and misrepresent the transformations of modern Central Asia from 1890–1940, a period animated by successive waves of imperialism...
Elena Janney works on the visual culture of the early modern Age of Encounter, with a particular focus on European expeditionary art of the late-fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She is interested in the transmission of artistic practices and materials...
Joseph Mizhakiiyaasige Zordan is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. His scholarly research examines the intersections of European/Euro-American and Indigenous North American art and history, and the material...
After studying Islamic art and architecture at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Walid was appointed as teaching assistant in the Department of Archaeology at the same university, an office that he maintained until 2016. His interest in Andalusi studies led...
Nora Rosengarten (she/her) studies the history of printmaking from the 19th C to the present in Europe and the Americas. Her scholarship is animated by methodologies of materiality and process, as well as queer and feminist theories of knowledge, affect...
Tai Mitsuji is a writer and curator who is interested in disrupting the thematic and temporal modularity of art history. Rather than being pinned to a single era, his work seeks to track ideas across both time and culture – drawing a line, for instance...
Gabriella Wellons’ research examines the visual and material cultures of Pre-Hispanic Latin America with a particular interest in polychrome mural painting and relief sculpture of ancient Peru. Her early fieldwork examined Moche graffiti imagery incised...