Graduate Students
Leslie Wallace
East Asian Art and Archaeology
In her dissertation, Wallace explores the cultural and pictorial tradition of the hunt in ancient China by focusing on depictions of the hunt in Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 CE) tomb reliefs from Shaanxi and Shanxi.
CV Highlights
Education
PhD Dissertation Working Title: “Chasing the Beyond: Depictions of Hunting in Eastern Han Dynasty Tomb Reliefs from Shaanxi and Shanxi”
MA History of Art and Architecture. University of Pittsburgh, “Early Pictorial Bronzes and the Rise and Fall of Ministerial Lineages in Ancient China”
Fellowships, Grants and Internships
Summer 2008, 2009: Education Intern, The Cleveland Museum of Art
2007-2008; 2008-2009: Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
2007: John H. Tsui Memorial Award (Nationality Rooms Scholarship)
2007: China Council Pre-Dissertation Grant
2003-2005: Chancellor’s Fellowship in Chinese Studies, University of Pittsburgh
2004: Intensive Summer Japanese Program Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh
2000: Anthropological Collections Intern, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL
Presentations
March 2009- Representations of Falconry in Eastern Han China (25-220 CE), Ninth Annual Arts & Sciences Grad Expo, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
September 2008 - “Betwixt and Between: “Conceptions of Hybridity in Ancient China,” Southeastern College Art Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
April 2008 - “The Qin Legal Texts from Longgang and Royal Hunting Parks in China,”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
March 2008 -“Beings Constantly in Motion: Depictions of Immortals in Eastern Han
Dynasty Tomb Reliefs,” Middle Atlantic Symposium, University of Maryland
and the National Gallery of Art, College Park, Maryland and Washington, DC
January 2008 - “The Hunting Motif and the Spiritualizing of Outsider Lifestyles in Han China” American Institute of Archaeology Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois
October 2005 - “Bronze Mirrors and Ritual in Early Japan,” Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Translations
Guo Moruo, Shi pi-pan shu (Ten Critiques of Classical Philosophy), Excerpts. Written between 1934-1945, Edited by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low.
-- “Qin Shihuang jiang si.” (“The First Emperor of Qin Approaches Death”), 1936. Edited by Anthony Barbieri-Low.
Zheng Wen, “Jing Ke.”(“Biography of Jing Ke”), in Cike liezhuan (Biographies of the Assassin Retainers). Taibei: Shibao Wenhua Chubanshe, 1987), 8-112, Edited by Anthony Barbieri-Low.
Professional Experience
Symposium Coordinator, 2009 Toshiba International Foundation Symposium: Japan's Cultural Imagination and Its Contribution to the World
Summer 2007, Summer 2008, Fall 2009 - Teaching Fellow for History of Art and Architecture (HAA 0020), Introduction to Asian Art, University of Pittsburgh
September-December 2006 - Teaching Assistant for History of Art and Architecture (HAA 0020), Introduction to Asian Art, Professor Karen M. Gerhart, University of Pittsburgh
