Graduate Students

Carolyn Bell

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... Read more about Carolyn Bell
Natasha Coleman

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... Read more about Natasha Coleman
Fabienne

Fabienne Helfenberger

Japanese Art

Dissertation title (tentative): "Nikkō and Beyond - A Study of Tokugawa Mausoleum Architecture."

Icey Bingjie Lin

Icey Lin

Chinese Art

Icey Lin is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, focusing on Buddhist art and architecture in...

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Chenchen Lu

Chenchen Lu

Chinese Art

Chenchen Lu received her B.Arch. from Tsinghua University (China) in 2010 and M.Arch. from Harvard GSD in 2015. Her research focuses on the spatial...

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Michael Norton

Micharl Norton

Chinese Art
Michael graduated from Tsinghua University in spring 2019, receiving his MA in art history and theory with a focus on Chinese Buddhist art and archaeology. His... Read more about Micharl Norton
April Peng

April Peng

Chinese Art

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...

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Helen Swift

Helen Swift

Japanese Art

Helen’s research focuses on early-modern and modern Japanese art with an emphasis on painting and prints. Her dissertation on Meiji period (1868–1912)...

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Joy Wu

Xiaolu Joy Wu

East Asian Religions and Buddhist Studies
Joy’s research focuses on Medieval Chinese and Japanese religious art. Her intellectual passion lies in the nexus of religion and art history: through bridging... Read more about Xiaolu Joy Wu