Graduate Students

Shalmit Bejarano

East Asian Art and Archaeology

shb29@pitt.edu

Bejarano's research focuses on pictures of agriculture and sericulture in early modern Japan. The study examines the images as part of a wider social and intellectual discourse pertaining to the nature of the Japanese nation.

CV Highlights

Education

PhD: working dissertation title - "Pictures of Agriculture and Sericulture in the Four Seasons," main advisor: Karen Gerhart
MA: East Asian studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
MA: Art history from Doshisha University, Kyoto

Publications

"The Widow's Tears and the Soldier's Dream: Gender and Japanese Wartime Visual Culture" in: Kowner, Rotem and Shillony, Ben-Ami (eds) Rethinking the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-5: A Centennial Perspective (Global Oriental, 2007). pp.159-184.

In Hebrew: "The Shadow of War: Images of Women in Japanese Paintings" in: Kowner, Rotem (ed) The Forgotten Battle: The Russo-Japanese War and its Aftermatch (Maarachot, 2005), pp. 513-537.

Awards

Andrew W. Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship (2008-2009)

Japan Iron and Steel Foundation scholarship (2007-2008, 2006-2007)

Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship (1998-2001)

Teaching Experience

Taught courses on Japanese visual culture in several Israeli institutions.

Links

www.pitt.edu/~shb29

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