Asia Adomanis is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History of Art studying modern American art, focusing on Asian American artists, with research interests also in (global) modernism and abstraction, art of the Cold War, critical race/ethnic studies, and modern Chinese art. Asia’s dissertation considers the role that social and political understandings of race played in the public and critical reception of art in the mid-century American art world through case studies that explore how cultural hybridity, racial identity, the broader politics of style impacted the careers of Chinese American artists.

Asia's work and research has been supported by the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Program, Center for Ethnic Studies Student Travel and Research Grant, Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship, and the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Outside of the department, Asia has worked as a Research Assistant at the Wexner Center for the Arts and been in residency as a Predoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.