Current MA and PhD Students:
Selected Publications and Presentations
Asia Adomanis presented “Surface, Text, and Racial (Il)legibility in the Prints of Seong Moy (1921-2013)” at the 71st Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs in September 2022; “Primitivism and Resistance: Miguel Covarrubias’ Influence in Shanghai” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in March 2022; “Gender, Nation, and Violence in Shidai manhua (Modern Sketch), 1934-1937” at Rethinking War: A Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Pittsburgh in March 2022; and “The ‘Primitive,’ the ‘Modern,’ and the ‘In-between’: Miguel Covarrubias and the Harlem Renaissance” at the 64th Annual American Studies Association of Texas Conference in November 2021.
Maika Kagawa Bahr presented “The Faux Fumi-e: A Christian Print’s Function in Edo and Meiji Period Japan” at the 68th Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America in Dublin, Ireland in March 2022; and “Memories En Route: Russell Lee’s Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration During World War II” at the 21st Annual International Graduate Student Conference at the East West Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i in February 2022.
Karin Flora presented “Valerio Belli’s Crystal Crucifix: Creating Generative Forms of Mysterious Knowledge” at Ohio State’s Hayes Graduate Research Forum in March 2022.
Karin Flora and Liz Heise-Glass co-published (with a third researcher, Julia Harth) a learning guide for the Wexner Center’s Department of Learning and Public Practice for the exhibition, To Begin, Again: A Pre-History of the Wex, 1968-89 in February 2022.
Cole J. Graham presented “Monstrous Possibilities: States of Racial Transmutation in Hiromu Arakawa’s FullMetal Alchemist” at the third Trans-States Conference, held at the University of Northampton in September 2022, where the theme was The Art of Deception.
Dareen Hussein presented “Activating the Archive: Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution in Twenty-First Century film and Video,” at the 2e colloque international de doctorants et jeunes chercheurs: Re-présentation(s) dans le texte et l’image: transfert, influence, fracture at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France, in June 2022; and “Activating the Archive: Cinema of the Palestinian Revolution in Twenty-First Century Film and Video” at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa in Porto, Portugal in May 2022 as part of the 2022 Spring Seminar: Traumatic Landscapes. Hussein’s essay entitled “Sounds of Subversion: Assia Djebar’s La zerda et les chants de l’oubli” was selected as the recipient of the 2022 Gender and Feminisms Caucus Graduate Student Writing Prize at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). She also contributed an essay entitled “Thinking Through Fragments: Speculative Archives, Contested Histories, and a Tale of the Palestine Archaeological Museum” for the anthology FUTURE/PRESENT: Culture in a Changing America, edited by Daniela Alvarez, Roberta Uno, and Elizabeth Webb (Duke University Press, forthcoming).
Yifan Li presented “The New Architectural Wonder: Reproducing the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge in Mao-era China” at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, in March 2022; and “Collection ‘Traditions’ in Modern China: Beiping Letter Papers” at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts as part of the ARTBreak Program in October 2021.
Alanna Radlo-Dzur and co-authors received the Joseph T. Criscenti Best Article Award (2022) from The New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) for “The Tira of don Martín: A Living Nahua Chronicle” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, 3.3 (2021): 7-37. Radlo-Dzuralso co-organized a panel with Barbara E. Mundy, “Reinstating Indigenous Vocabularies in the Arts of the Americas,” for Communities: Reclaiming Indigenous Knowledge, the annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the University of Kansas in September 2022. She presented “Naming Names: Aspects of Portraiture in the Depiction of the Cihuateteoh of Postclassic Central Mexico,” in the session “About Face: Portraiture in the Ancient Americas,” organized by Annabeth Headrick and Virginia E. Miller, at the 87th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Chicago, Illinois, in March 2022; and “Mixtitlan Ayauhtitlan (In the Clouds, In the Mist): The Invisible in Early Modern Nahua Art,” to the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in February 2022. Finally, Radlo-Dzur and her team at the Getty Research Institute presented “The Florentine Codex Initiative: Indigenous and Global Book Histories Converging in Sixteenth-Century Mexico” for the Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) Research Centre at the University of the Arts, London in January 2022.
April Riddle presented “Meet Me in Hell: Entropy8Zuper!’s Telematic Touch” at The University of California, Riverside Art History Graduate Student Association’s 11th Annual Conference in May 2022.
Peter Smyth published “Mixing Comics and Literature in Calvino’s Castle of Crossed Destinies” in Poetics Today, vol. 43 (3), in September 2022.
Keyu Yan virtually presented “From Craft to Fine Art: The New Discourse on Sculpture in Republican China” at the Biennial Conference of the Historical Society for Twentieth Century China in August 2022; and “The Art of Yanobe Kenji: Torayan, Cuteness, and Nuclear Disasters” at the 49th Annual Conference of the Midwest Art History Society at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in March 2022.
Gillian Zhang presented “Stone Painting: Ruan Yuan’s (1764-1849) Evening Glow on the Autumn Mountain” at the Getty-Heidelberg Dissertation Workshop in July 2022; and “Versatile Stones, Virtuous Emperor: Pictorial Stelae in the Qianlong Period (1736-1795)” at Ohio State’s Hayes Graduate Research Forum in March 2022.
Selected Recent PhDs:
Academic/Museum Placements (2015-present)
Rebecca Howard (PhD 2017) accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Early Modern Art at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN.
Linda Huang (PhD 2021) accepted a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.
Stephanie Kang (PhD 2022) accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design in Denver, CO.
Caroline Koncz (PhD 2022) accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History at Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX.
Eunice Uhm (PhD 2021) accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA.
Gillian Zhang (PhD 2022) accepted a position as a Curatorial Research Associate at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.
