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...
Yukio Lippit received his B.A. (1993) in Literature from Harvard University and his M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. He specializes in Japanese painting of the medieval and early modern periods. His book Paint...
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...
Akiko Walley received her AM in Regional Studies East Asia and PhD in Art History from Harvard University. She specializes in Japanese Buddhist art of the seventh and eighth centuries. Buddhism is the bedrock of every aspect of Japanese lives even today...
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...
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...
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...
