Sarah Laursen
Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art
Harvard Art Museums
Sarah Laursen oversees the Chinese art collection as well as parts of the Korean and Central, South, and Southeast Asian collections. She is a specialist in early medieval China, and her research interests include Chinese archaeology, digital humanities, technical art history, collecting history, and contemporary Asian and Asian American art. She curated Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, co-curated Earthly Delights: 6,000 Years of Asian Ceramics, and worked with students to develop the virtual exhibition Reframing Tianlongshan.