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Isabel McWilliams, Ph.D. 2025

Assistant Professor

Department of Art & Visual Culture, College of Design

Iowa State University

Isabel received her Bachelor’s degree in the History of Art and Architecture with minors in French and Chinese from Middlebury College. Before joining Harvard, she worked in the art world in Paris, Beijing and New York. Isabel’s area of study is medieval...

Trevor Menders

Japanese Art

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...

Allison Miller, Ph.D. 2011

Professor

Art History Department

Southwestern University

Allison R. Miller specializes in the art and archaeology of early China and investigates the relationship of visual forms to political history and contexts of artistic production. Her interdisciplinary research examines the form and material of Chinese...

Jeffrey Moser, Ph.D. 2010

Associate Professor

History of Art and Architecture

Brown University

Professor Moser’s research attends, broadly, to the conceptual and material processes whereby past things are made present, with particular attention to the ways in which these processes intersect in the artistic practices and scholarly techne of medieval...

Nozomi Naoi, Ph.D. 2014

Associate Professor

Department of Japanese Studies

National University of Singapore

Associate Professor Nozomi Naoi did her graduate work at Harvard University at the Department of History of Art and Architecture where she completed her PhD in 2014 and received her MA in 2009. Before starting her graduate programme, Assoc Prof Naoi...

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

Seung Hee Oh, Ph.D. 2023

Assistant Curator

Chinese Art

Art Institute of Chicago

Seung Hee Oh received her BA in Chinese Language from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea, 2011) with Summa Cum Laude and MA in Art History from Seoul National University (South Korea, 2014).Her Master’s thesis explored the posthumous...

Minkang Park

Japanese and Korean Art

Minkang conducts research on two subjects in Japanese Buddhist painting. One focuses on the concept of scale and its visual and religious implications, with a particular emphasis on Japanese nirvāṇa paintings. The other is the cultural and artistic...

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 concern the conceiving and sustaining of life beyond the physical body. Her past projects have focused...

Cole Roskam, Ph.D. 2010

Professor

Faculty of Architecture

University of Hong Kong

Cole Roskam is professor of architectural history in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. His research and teaching engage topics in 19th and 20th century and contemporary architectural and urban history as well as theory, with a...

María Salvador, Ph.D. 2026

Postdoctoral Fellow

Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies

Heidelberg University

María Salvador’s research focuses on medieval Japanese religious painting, specifically the art of the Kasuga cult in Nara. She’s interested in issues of icon animation and reproduction, elite and non-elite approaches to religious art, materiality and...

Rachel Saunders, Ph.D. 2015

Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History

Department of Art and Archaeology

Princeton University

Saunders joined Princeton University after serving as the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art from 2015 to 2024. Her research interests span a wide variety of mediums and periods (medieval to contemporary) and include Buddhist materiality...