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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...

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...

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 medieval Asia. Prior to joining Harvard, Icey studied Art History and East Asian Religion at Columbia...

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 conception, visual program and practice of Chinese architecture, especially ritual architecture and...

Trevor works broadly on medieval to modern Japanese art. His dissertation, “Dancing with Genji: Painting, Politics, and Performance in Seventeenth Century Japan,” writes across disciplinary boundaries to investigate the relationship between visual culture...

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 current research addresses a group of multi-tiered, modular Northern Dynasties sculptural...

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...

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...

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 the two disciplines, she is interested in examining how images, material objects, sounds, and...

Samuel 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...