Graduate Students

Mandy Jui-man Wu

East Asian Art and Archaeology

Mandy Jui-man Wu’s academic interests are the relationships between art, identity, and ritual. She has presented and published papers related to the construction of identity through art and mortuary display at professional conferences and in professional journals. Her dissertation will examine the role mortuary art and ritual played in creating social-political and cultural identities for non-Han-ethnic residents of Northern Zhou China (557-581 CE).

CV Highlights

Publications

“Gender Role Played in Mortuary Display: A Case Study of the Late Neolithic Cemetery at Dadianzi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region),” Gender and Chinese Archaeology, edited byKatheryn M. Linduff and Yan Sun, Aurora Center for the Study of Ancient Civilizations, Beijing University, Beijing: Science Press, pp.33-72. 2006. (in Chinese)

Linduff, Katheryn M. and Mandy Jui-man Wu. “The Construction of Identity: Remaining Sogdian in Eastern Asia in the 6th Century,” In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference October 27 - 28, 2005, Journal of Indo-European Studies, Monograph Series No. 52, Karlene Jones-Bley, Martin E. Huld, Angela Della Volpe, & Miriam Robbins Dexter (eds.) Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, D. C., 2006, pp. 219-246.

“Exotic Goods as Mortuary Display in Sui Dynasty Tombs--A Case Study of Li Jingxun’s Tomb,” in Silk Road Exchange in China, Sino-Platonic Papers, ed. by Katheryn M. Linduff, Number 142, July, 2004, pp. 49-64. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

“The Late Neolithic Cemetery at Dadianzi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,” in Gender and Chinese Archaeology, edited by Katheryn M. Linduff and Yan Sun, pp. 47-91,Walnut Creek: Altamira Press.

Presentations

"Cultural Crossovers in Mortuary Art during the Sixth Century in China." New York Conference on Asian Studies 2008, Hamilton College, NY, September, 2008.

Katheryn M. Linduff/Jui-Man Wu, “Identity or Manipulation: Archaeological Perspectives on the Sogdians in China”, Indo-Pacific, Prehistory Association (IPPA), March 20-26, 2006, Manila, Philippines.

Katheryn M. Linduff/Jui-Man Wu, “The Construction of Identity: Sogdians in China”, Institute for the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nov. 2-5, 2004.

"Exotics and Ethnicity: A Case Study of Li Jingxun’s Family in China (6th-7th Century A.D.)” 2004 Princeton Graduate Student Symposium, Princeton University, May 1, 2004.

“Exotic Goods as Mortuary Display in Sui Dynasty Tombs--A Case Study of Li Jingxun’s Tomb”, Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 4, 2004.

“The Evolution of Chang Dai-chien’s Self-Portraits”Midwest Art History Society, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April, 2003.

Fellowships and Grants

2008-09, China Times Cultural Foundation Young Scholar Award

2008, A&S-PBC And Alumni Travel Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh

2008, China Council Graduate Student Research Conference Participation Grant, Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh

2007-08, Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship

2006-07, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

2006-07, FAS Tuition Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh

June 2006, Summer Travel Grant from the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies

2003-2006, Teaching Fellowship, Henry C. Frick Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

2004, China Council Graduate Student Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh

2004, Friends of Frick Fine Arts Travel Grant, Henry C. Frick Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

2004, Jim Wilkinson Travel Grant, Henry C. Frick Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

2004, Travel Grants from Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Organization, University of Pittsburgh

2004, China Council Graduate Student Research Conference Participation Grant, Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh

2001-2003, Teaching Assistantship, Henry C. Frick Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

Teaching Experience

University of Pittsburgh, History of Art and Architecture
      Fall 2004, Teaching Fellow, “HA&A 0020 Introduction to Asian Art,” with
      Professor Katheryn M. Linduff

      Fall 2003, Teaching Fellow, “HA&A 0020 Introduction to Asian Art,” with
      Professor Karen Gerhart

      Fall 2002, Teaching Assistant, “HA&A 0020 Introduction to Asian Art,” with
      Prof. Karen Gerhart