Irina Zhambaldorzhieva studies the history of Buddhist art, focusing on Esoteric (Tantric) iconography. She is particularly interested in the iconographic transformations that occurred as the Tantric teachings were transmitted from India and Nepal to...
Samuel Tan studies clothing and dressmaking in postwar Japan and the emergence of contemporary Japanese Fashion. Located in the development of drawing, cutting, and sewing technologies/techniques in such institutions as Bunka Fukusō Gakuin, Samuel’s work...
Khushi Nansi studies women’s spaces of disobedience in the pre-modern Islamic world. Through exchanges at board games, she investigates notions of the “unseen” in a thirteenth-century Iberian manuscript. Her interests are transhistorical, spanning from...
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.
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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...
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...