People

Carolyn Bell

Japanese Art

Carolyn Bell studies the visual and material culture of premodern Japan, focusing on intersections between tea ceremony, the global textile trade, and Buddhist art. She received her BA in Asian Studies and History from Cornell University, where she wrote...

Steffani Bennett, Ph.D. 2020

Assistant Professor and Joan B Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art

Department of Art History

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Steffani Bennett graduated with honors from the University of Washington with a major in art history and a minor in Japanese language. She entered the Ph.D. program at Harvard in 2012 in the field of Japanese art history. Steffani specializes in pre...

Phillip Bloom, Ph.D. 2013

Curator of the Chinese Garden

Director of the Center for East Asian Garden Studies

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Bloom joined the Huntington Library in 2017 after a term as Assistant Professor of East Asian art at Indiana University. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University in the history of art and architecture, specializing in the visual culture of China's Song...

Daniel Borengasser, Ph.D. 2024

Visiting Research Fellow

JF-Nichibunken Fellowship

International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Daniel Borengasser is a scholar of Japanese art and architectural history, specializing primarily in Buddhist art of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. His current research interests include the history of Buddhist sculpture, materiality and...

Mycah Brazelton-Braxton, Ph.D. 2021

Assistant Professor

Department of Art History

Indiana University

Mycah Brazelton-Braxton completed a B.A. in Art History at Duke University and an M.A. in East Asian Studies at Stanford University. Her research is focused on modern and contemporary Japanese art history.

Kit Brooks, Ph.D. 2017

Curator of Asian Art

Princeton University Art Museum

Kit Brooks joined the Art Museum in 2024 and is a specialist in Japanese art history. Prior to their appointment, Brooks was the Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art (Smithsonian Institutions, Washington...

Natasha Coleman

Chinese and European Art

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...

Fletcher Coleman, Ph.D. 2020

Assistant Professor

Department of Art and Art History

UT Arlington

Fletcher Coleman is a specialist on the art historiography and religious arts of China, whose research spans the early medieval through modern periods. His current project examines the antiquarian conventions and pedagogical practices utilized by American...

Yuhua Ding

Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections

Davis Museum, Wellesley College

2021-2022 Gregory and Maria Henderson Curatorial Fellow in East Asian Art

Mark Erdmann, Ph.D. 2016

Lecturer in Art History

School of Culture and Communication

University of Melbourne

Mark K Erdmann is a Lecturer in Art History at the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Erdmann specializes in Japanese pre-modern architecture, particularly of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, and the intersection of space, painting...

Fabienne Helfenberger, M.A. 2017

Assistant Professor

Architecture and Design

Kyoto Institute of Technology

Bing Huang, Ph.D. 2018

Associate Professor

Department of Art History

Providence College