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...
Natasha’s research focuses on the visual cultures that emerged via the explosion of direct
contact between Western Europe and late imperial China from the early seventeenth century
until the fall of the Manchu Qing Empire in 1911. Multidirectional and...
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...
Timothy Hampshire (Tim) studies medieval art with a focus on Late Antiquity. He is especially interested in the early Christian period in Rome, including book culture, epigraphy, and narrative art. His dissertation project reexamines the illustrations of...
Nolan studies the modern built environment, media, and cultural exchange across the Western Hemisphere. Their work looks at popular architecture through cultural studies and historical materialist lenses. They received a B.A. in English at Oberlin College...
Ayesha U. Shaikh is a doctoral candidate of Islamic architecture and urbanism in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Her research focuses on Indian Ocean maritime connectivity in relation to visual and architectural...