East Asian Art and Archaeology
Alumni
Dissertations completed
Chiou-Peng, Tze-huey
1985
Research Area: The Arts of Southwest China in the Bronze Age
Dissertation: "The Animal Style Art of the Tien Culture"
Currently: Curator of Special Exhibits & Res., Spurlock Museum, Visiting Scholar, East Asian & Pacific Studies Center, Illinois University at Champaign-Urbana, Champaign-Urbana IL
Choi, Seung Kew
1988
Research Area: Chinese and Korean Early Dynastic Art
Dissertation: "Tomb Complexes of the Later Han Dynasty in the Shndong Area: Structural and Iconography Problems of Hua xiang Shima"
Currently: Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Csorba, Mrea
1997
Research Area: The Arts of Early China and Inner Asia
Dissertation: "The Indentification of Non-Dynastic Burial Practice Involving a Northern Tool Tradition on China's Dynastic Frontier"
Currently: Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA
Ge, Yan
1997
Research Area: Early Chinese Art;
Contemporary Visual Media
Dissertation: "The Coexistence of Artistic Styles and the Pattern of Exchange: Sanzingdui During the Second Millennium BC"
Currently: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PRC
Gunji, Naoko
2007
Dissertation: Amidaji: Mortuary Art, Architecture, and Rites of Emperor Antoku's Temple
Currently:
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowship from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures for 2007-2008 and then
will assume position of Assistant Professor, tenure track, Augustana College, Rock Island IL
Hirayama, Mikiko
2001
Research Area: Artist-Critics of the Meiji Period
Dissertation: "The Restoration of Realism: Kojima Kikuo (1887-1950) and the Growth of Art Criticism in Modern Japan"
Currently: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
Huang, Tsui-mei
1992
Research Area: Late Neolithic and Early Dynastic Chinese Art, especially Jade
Dissertation: "The Role of Jade in Late Neolithic Culture in Ancient China: The Case of Liangzhu"
Currently: Graduate Institute of Art History and Art Criticism, Tainan National College of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan, ROC
Jiang, Yu
2004
Dissertation: "Statecraft and Cemetery in Early Dynastic China: Yu Funerary Art in the Zhou"
Currently: Post-doctoral Fellow, Freer/Sackler Gallery, Washington, DC
Li, Jian-jing
1999
Research Area: Bronze Age Cultures in Northern China and Their Arts
Dissertation: "Mapping Artifacts of the Frontier: An Approach to Study of the Yan Mountainous Area in the Eastern Zhou Period (8th - 3rd Century BC)"
Currently: Chi-lin University, Taiwan, ROC
Rode, Penny
1999
Research Area: Textile Production, Gender and Social Status in Bronze Age Chinese Art
Dissertation: "Social Position of Dian Women: Evidence from Art and Archaeology"
Currently: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana PA
Shelach, Gideon
Research Area: Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology of Northeast China
Currently: The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Sun, Yan
2001
Research Area: Bronze Age Chinese Art, Gender; Contemporary Chinese Art
Dissertation: "Negotiating Cultural and Political Control in North China during the Early Western Zhou Period: Elite Art and their Use in Mortuary Ritual and Practice in the Yan State"
Currently: Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA
Tsuruya, Mayu
2005
Dissertation: "War Campaign Record Painting: Japan's National Imagery of the "Holy War" (1937–1945)"
Wang, Ying
2000
Research Area: Shang Art and Gender; Contemporary Chinese Art
Dissertation: "Rank and Gender in the Bone Art at Anyang, the Late Shang Center"
Currently: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WS
Wu, Xiaolong
Dissertation: "Stylistic Traditions, Patronage and Cultural Identity in Ancient China: Bronze Artifacts of the Zhongshan State, Warring States Period (476-221 BCE)"
Currently: Hanover College, Hanover PA