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Arizona State University
Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Boston University
Brown University
Ca' Foscari University
Carleton University
Case Western Reserve University
Christie's Education London (University of Glasgow)
City University of New York
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études
Freie Universität Berlin
Georgetown University
Hamburg University
Harvard University
Heidelberg University
Hong-ik University
Indiana University
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
Leiden University
Leipzig University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
National Taiwan University
New York University
Northwestern University
The Ohio State University
Peking University
Princeton University
Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Sotheby's Institute of Art
Stanford University
Taipei National University of Fine Arts
Université Paris Sorbonne
University of Alberta
University of Bologna
University of Bonn
University of British Columbia
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Florida
University of Glasgow
University of Hong Kong
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of IowaUniversity of Kansas
University of Lisbon
University of Ljubljana
University of Manchester
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Oxford
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Southern California
University of Sussex
University of the Arts London Chelsea
University of Tokyo
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Zürich
Washington University, St. Louis
Yale University
York University

Arizona State University

Shiloh Blair: Japanese art
Jacqueline Chao: Chinese painting

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Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

Joyce Denney: Japanese textiles
Lu Pengliang: later imperial Chinese art and material culture
Lee Talbot: dissertation "Women, Textiles, and Upper-Class Domestic Environments in Late Choson-Dynasty Korea"
Yumiko YAMAMORI: decorative arts of the late Meiji period

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Binghamton University, State University of New York

Hye-Ri OH: dissertation "Photography and Criticism in Korea: Modernity, National Identity, and the Conception of Photography from the late Chosun Dynastic Period through Japanese Colonialism to Independence"
WANG Ya-Ling: dissertation "The Critical and Institutional Reception of American Abstract Expressionism in Taiwan and China"

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Boston University

HE Yanchiuan: dissertation "The Materiality, Style, and Culture of Calligraphy in the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127)"
Meghen Jones: dissertation "Tomimoto Kenkichi and the Discourse of Modern Japanese Ceramics"
Anna Reynolds: Chinese painting
Ellen Roberts: dissertation "Japanese Art and the American Aesthetic Interior, 1870-1900"
Seung Yeon Sang: dissertation "Cultural Essence and National Ceramics: The Formation of the Korean Folk Art Museum Under Japanese Colonial Rule"

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Brown University

CAI Yun: dissertation "Zhao Mengjian (1199-1264/67) and Late Song Literati Painting"
Amy Huang: literati painting and collecting practice of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
I-Fen HUANG: dissertation "Gu Family Embroidery in Late Imperial and Modern China: From Women's Needlework to Cultural Legacy"
Wei JIANG: dissertation "Qiao Zhongchang's Red Cliff Scroll: The Emergence of Scholar Painting and the Early History of Text-Image Relationships in China"

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Ca' Foscari University

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Carleton University

Asato Ikeda: dissertation "Mobilizing Every Body: Japanese Art, Fascism, and War (1931-1945)"
Rosemary Marland: contemporary Chinese art

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Case Western Reserve University

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Christie's Education London (University of Glasgow)

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City University of New York

Yoshiaki KAI: dissertation "Street Snap: Photography in Japan, 1950–1990"
NAKAGAWA Ikuyo: dissertation "Negotiating Boundaries: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Art of Tsuguharu Foujita"

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Columbia University

Talia Andrei: Japanese art history with a focus on medieval painting
Jens Bartel: Japanese art
Li-Wei CHEN: dissertation "Writing and Rulership in Eighth-Century China: Emperor Xuanzong (r. 712-756) and the Politics of Calligraphic Style"
Frank Feltens: Momoyama and Edo period painting (particularly Rinpa) and its links with theater and classical literature
Sandrine Larrivé-Bass: dissertation "Cross-Materiality in Environmental and Ritual Contexts: Bronze Surrogates in Late Bronze Age China, 1045-221 BCE"
Risha LEE: dissertation "Constructing Communities: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China (850-1281)1"
Joseph Loh: dissertation "When Worlds Collide: Art, Cartography, and Spatial Imagination in Early Modern Japan"
David Monteleone (Dept of Religion): dissertation "Visualizing Religious Networks: The Silk Legend and Proto-Buddhist Tantra in Khotanese Painting"
Maggie Mustard: East Asian art; modern contemporary Japanese visual culture; critical theory; representations of World War II and the atomic bomb; memory and trauma
Aaron Rio: dissertation "Images of Chinese Poets in Medieval Japanese Painting"
Joseph Scheier-Dolberg: Chinese painting and calligraphy; Chinese decorative objects; modern and contemporary ink painting in China
Chun-Yi Joyce TSAI: dissertation "Images of the Supernatural Grotesque in China, ca. 1200–1500: Iconographic Origins, Transmissions, and Perceptions"
Alexandra Tunstall: dissertation "Woven Paintings: Tapestries in the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) Dynasties"
Kori Lisa YEE Litt: early Renaissance Italian painting; Chinese art

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Cornell University

ZHANG Bo: traditional Chinese painting history

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Duke University

Ignacio A. ADRIASOLA Munoz: dissertation "Melancholy Sites: The Affective Politics of Marginality in Post-Anpo Japan, 1960-1970"
Jungmin HA: Asian art
Young Ji LEE: East Asian art
Kari L. Shepherdson-Scott: dissertation "Utopia/Dystopia: Japan's Image of the Manchurian Ideal"

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Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE)

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Freie Universität Berlin

- Pauline Bachmann and Tomoko Mamine: "Die Herausbildung von Avantgarden in Japan und in Brasilien nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg [The emergence of avant-garde in Japan and in Brazil after the Second World War]"
HE Jianping: dissertation "Chinesische Plakatkunst [Chinese poster art]"
- Shao-lan HERTEL: dissertation "Inside the calligrapher's sign: pioneering spaces, recreating traces - Along the iron line of Lin Sanzhi (1898-1989)"
- Antje Papist-Matsuo: dissertation on typologies [of] Japanese Negoro lacquers and their aesthetic reception
- Nora Usanov-Geißler: "Bildkommerz im Seehafen. Nanban-Stellschirme als Medien merkantilen Kulturkontakts in Japan 1590-1650 [Port images: Nanban folding screens as media and mercantile cultural contact in Japan 1590-1650]"
- Wibke VOß: dissertation "Ikeda Koson (1802-1867). Kunst und Kunstgeschichte der Rinpa im 19. Jahrhundert [Art and art history of the Rinpa School in the 19th century]"

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Georgetown University

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Hamburg University

Vera Wolff: dissertation "From Truth to Material to the Revenge of Materials. The Western Reception of Japanese Material Aesthetics between 1870 and 1970"

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Harvard University

Philip Bloom: dissertation "Descent of the Deities: Early Icons of the Water-Land Ritual and the Transformation of the Visual Culture of Song Dynasty (960-1279) Religion"
Mark Erdmann: dissertation "Azuchi: Castle, Town and Beyond"
Allison Miller: dissertation "Building States and Tombs: Re-interpreting the Significance of Western Han Mortuary Practices"
Nozomi NAOI: Taishô-period painting and prints
Rachel Saunders: Japanese art
Hao SHENG: Wu Tung Curator of Chinese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Yurika Wakamatsu: Japanese art
Ren Wei: 20th-century Chinese prints
Alan Yeung: 17th-century Chinese painting

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Heidelberg University

- Christoph Büttner: dissertation "Von Dayi nach Venedig und zurück: Die Metamorphosen der Skulpturengruppe Shouzuyuan/Rent Collection Courtyard zwischen kulturrevolutionärem Musterkunstwerk und globalisiertem Künstlermythos [From Dayi to Venice and back: the metamorphosis of the sculptural group Shouzuyuan/Rent Collection Courtyard between Cultural Revolution masterpiece and the globalized myth of the artist]"
- Massimo Carrante: dissertation "The Role of Calligraphy in Kang Youwei´s Concept of Reform"
- CHEN Liang: dissertation "Eine Studie zu grabschützenden Jiechu-Texten und zum Jiechu-Ritus ost-hanzeitlicher chinesischer Totenriten in Shaanxi und der Provinz Henan [A study of protective Jiechu texts and Jiechu rites in Eastern Han death rituals in Shaanxi and Henan province]"
- Hui-ping CHUANG: dissertation "Esoterische Wissenskönige: ihre Geschichte und Darstellung in China zwischen der Tang- und der Ming-Dynastie [Esoteric sage kings: their history and representation in China between the Tang and the Ming dynasty]"
- GENG Yan: dissertation "The image of Mao Zedong in the beginning of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1953"
- Bettina Goesch: dissertation "Shôtoku Taishi und die bildlichen Bibliographien [Shôtoku Taishi and visual bibliographies]"
- Shaohua Grasmück-Zhang: dissertation "Aspects of Authenticity: Maintenance, Restoration and Conservation of Historic Architecture in China"
- Simone Griessmayer: dissertation "Medialisierung des wahren Buddhakörpers: Die Sakyamuni-Pagode in Qingzhou [Medialization of the true Buddha body: the Sakyamuni Pagoda in Qingzhou]"
- Beatrice Hoeller: dissertation "Images of Words - Words of Images. A Transcultural Approach of Pictorial Perceptions in the Greco-Roman and the Sino-Japanese Practice"
- Gerald Holzwarth: dissertation "Das Shiqu baoji und die Kunstsammlung des Qianlong Kaisers [The Shiqu baoji and the art collection of the Qianlong emperor"
- Mark Hosak: dissertation "Die Siddham in der japanischen Kunst im Zusammenhang mit Heilung und Ritualen [The Siddham in Japanese art in the context of healing and ritual]" '
- Annika Jöst: dissertation "Contemporary Chinese Women's Magazines and Their Representations of the 'New' New Woman"
- Joachim Osse: dissertation "Perception of art through art: Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring”
- Eckhard Schneider: dissertation "Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940) and the Modernization of Chinese painting"
- Cordula Treimer: dissertation "Neue Typographie in Japan [New typography in Japan]"
- Nicole Tsuda: dissertation "Kobayashi Eitaku (1843-1890), Maler und Illustrator der Meiji-Zeit [Kobayashi Eitaku (1843-1890), painter and illustrator of the Meiji era]"
- Mio Wakita: dissertation "Selling of the Nation: Fashioning Female Images in the Japanese Souvenir Photography and its Visual Implications"
- Carola Wanke: dissertation "Feministische Kunst in Japan seit 1980 [Feminist art in Japan since 1980]"
- Alexandra Wedekind: dissertation "Liubo-Darstellungen im Kontext der han-zeitlichen Grabkunst [Representations of liubo in the context of Han tomb art]"
- WU Wen-Ting: dissertation "Meißner Porzellane mit chinesischen Motiven und Formen oder nach chinesischen Vorlagen (1720-1732) [Meissen porcelain with Chinese motifs and forms or Chinese templates (1720-1732)]"
- Cora Würmell: Japanese ceramics
- YAO Ning: dissertation "The Painting Memories of Xingfu-Temple of Wu Li (1632-1718)"
- Eva ZHANG: dissertation "European Perceptions of Japan in 16th and 17th Century Illustrated Travelogues and their Reception in the 19th Century"
- ZHU Yujie: dissertation "Asymmetrical Cultural Flows in Defining Authenticity in the Context of Global Tourism: Heritage Conservation in World Heritage Site Old Town of Lijiang, China"

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Hong-ik University

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Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales

Sandrine Tabard: Master's thesis "Photographier la nation: la découverte de la beauté au Japon (1868-1990) [Photographing the nation: the discovery of beauty in Japan (1868-1990)]"

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Leiden University

Daan Kok: dissertation "Visualizing the Classics: Reading Surimono as Cultural and Social history"
Takako KONDO: Japanese contemporary art, (global/world) art history, postcolonial theory, cultural translation

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Leipzig University

Anne Ehrt: Japanese contemporary art from Gutai onwards, but focused on Tokyo pop

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Karin Oen: dissertation "Admonition and the Academy: Video, Installation, and Performance Art in Reform-Era China, 1978-2008"

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McGill University

Lin Fan: dissertation on cartography and print culture in the Late Imperial China

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National Taiwan University

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New York University

Nixi Cura: dissertation "Chinese Bannerman Painters in Beijing, ca. 1700-1770"
Yoohyang Do: dissertation "The Painting of Gao Fenghan (1683-1749)"
Randolph Ford: comparative study of Greco-Roman and Chinese ethnographic traditions and the strategies of cultural and political accommodation between sedentary societies and tribal confederations following imperial collapse
Philip K. Hu: dissertation "Mi Wanzhong (1570-1628): An Artist and Patron in Late Ming China"
LIU Lihong: dissertation "A Known World: The Pictorial Construction of Place in the Art of Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Lu Zhi"
Zhijian QIAN: dissertation "Modernism Re-oriented in a Chinese Context: Painting of Modernist Artists in Wartime Chongqing, 1937-1945"
Mari Takamatsu: dissertation "Painting, Theater, and Visual Experience in Early Modern Japan (1596-1644)"
Fan Zhang: mortuary art of China from 200BC to 200AD

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Northwestern University

Xiao YANG: Chinese art history
Lu ZHANG: Ancient Chinese art

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The Ohio State University

Arthur Brid: dissertation "Putting Lhasa on the Map: 18th-20th Century Depictions of the City's Monuments"
Ying CHUA: contemporary Chinese painting
Wing-sze (Eliza) HO: dissertation "Art, Documentary, and Propaganda in Wartime China: The Photography of Sha Fei (1912-1950)"
Mayumi Kamata: dissertation "Yanase Masamu: Art and Japanese Consciousness of the Modern"
Christina Matheson: dissertation "Identity, Modernity, and Occupation: The Colonial Style of Taiwanese Painter Chen Chengbo (1895-1947)"
Yang WANG: dissertation "Mapping Regional Art in Maoist China: The Chang'an School of Ink Painting, 1942–1966"
Yanfei ZHU: dissertation "Transtemporal and Cross-Border Alignment: The Rediscovery of Yimin Ink Painting in Modern China, 1900–1949"

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Peking University

WU Yanwu (Ian): Chinese religious art

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Princeton University

Miriam Chusid: Japanese art
Michael Hatch: dissertation "Qian Du (1763–1844), Zhang Yin (1761–1829), and the Problematics of Early Nineteenth-Century Chinese Landscape Painting"
Jun HU: dissertation "Embracing the Circle: Domical Buildings in East Asian Architecture, ca. 200-750"
Zoe Kwok: dissertation "Halls to Inhabit, Paths to Wander: Paintings of Court Women from the Five Dynasties (907-960)"
Kin Sum Li: Warring States period Chu culture
Michelle Lim: dissertation "Navigating Floating Worlds: Curatorial Strategies in Chinese Contemporary Art, 1979-2009"
David Liu: dissertation "The Prehistory of the Middle and Lower Changjiang Region"
Gregory Seiffert: dissertation "Questioning Regionalism in Seventeenth-Century Nanjing Landscape Painting"
Kyle Steinke: early history of Chinese calligraphy and the bronze industries of the Yangzi region
Christine Tan: dissertation on late Ming illustrated editions of The Peony Pavilion
Kim Wishart: dissertation "Collaboration in Painting Practice: Notions of Individuality and Quality in Chinese Art"
WU Xiaojin: dissertation "Beyond Decoration: The Forms, Meanings, and Functions of the Ink Bird-and-Flower Screens in Muromachi Japan"
Jian Xu

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Royal College of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum

Mary Ginsberg: Chinese art

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Angela Becher: dissertation "China's Urban Monumentality in Contemporary Fiction, Cinema and Art"
Paul Bevan: dissertation "Manhua and Illustrated Propaganda in WartimeChina, 1927-1945"
Mei-ling CHEN: dissertation "Cultural Transmission between East & West in the Early Medieval China"
CHEN Qing: dissertation "The Mosques of Coastal China"
Nicole CHIANG Ter-chuang: dissertation "The Qianlong Emperor's Collections of the Qing Dynasty"
CHIEN Li-Kuei: dissertation The Siwei Bodhisattva: The Contemplating Image in Popular Buddhism of Sixth Century China"
DONG Chengxi: dissertation "Early Museums in China"
Haruhisa Handa: dissertation "Calligraphy and Religious Personality in Early Modern Japan: Hakuin's Life and Writings"
Mami Hatayama: dissertation "The Meiji Painter and Lacquer Artist Shibata Zeshin"
Noriko Horsley: dissertation "Court Patronage and Collecting of Art in Twelfth Century Insei-period Japan"
Hsin-wen HSU: dissertation "An Archaeological Study of the Jades from the Tomb of the King of Nanyue Kingdom"
Ching-yi HUANG: dissertation "John Sparks Ltd: Art Dealer and Chinese Art in Britain, 1900-1950"
Yin HWANG: dissertation "The Depiction of War and Rebellion in the Print and Visual Culture of Late Qing China, 1884-1901"
Tianshuang LIANG: dissertation "The Agency of Syncretism in Modern Chinese Art: Gao Qifeng and the New Republic"
Yi-hsin LIN: dissertation "Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: Art Collecting and Gentry Identity of the Pan Family in Nineteenth-century Suzhou"
Yu-jen LIU: dissertation "A Paradigm in Transition: The Concept of Art in China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1884-1928)"
Emma Martin: dissertation "Charles Bell, a Collector in Tibet"
Elena Moreno: dissertation "Feeding the Ancestors: Form and Function in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes"
Doreen Mueller: dissertation "Documenting Disaster: Pictorial Records of the Edo Period"
Rose Ojo: dissertation "The Role of Movement and Migration in the Photographic Work of Carrie Mae Weems, Joy Gregory, Rotimi Fani Kayode, Albert Chong, Yinka Shonibare and Renee Cox"
Jenny Preston: dissertation "Nishikawa Sukenobu: The Engagement of Popular Art in Socio-political Discourse in Eighteenth-century Japan"
Shuchi SHEN: dissertation "Art, Commerce and Chinese Identities: Remapping the Beijing Art Circle (1911-1938)"
Eriko Tomizawa-Kay: dissertation "The Nihonga (Japanese-Style) artist Hishida Shunso (1874-1911)"
Terumi Toyama: dissertation "The Replication of Sacred Spaces in Edo"
Shu-chin Wang: dissertation "Chinese Realism and Western Realism in the Early Art Criticism of Xu Beihong, 1918 -1930"
Emily Williams (London Consortium): private British collections of Chinese Cultural Revolution objects; Chinese revolutionary politics & culture
Lindsay Zamponi: dissertation "British Collectors and Collections of Tibetan Art and Artefacts, 1850-1960"

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Sotheby's Institute of Art

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Stanford University

Emily Brink: art history, French and Japanese, 19th century
Christine Ho: dissertation "Drawing from Life: Sketching, Landscape, and the Formation of Socialist Realist Guohua"
Najung Kim: Chinese art
Hsinyi Tiffany Lee: Chinese art
Huiping PANG: Chinese art
Anna Pawlowski: Ming/Qing painting; Budddhist painting
Eldon Pei: Chinese art
Erica Yao: Chinese art
Yao Wu: Chinese art

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Taipei National University of Fine Arts

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Université Paris Sorbonne

- Sophie Allard-Latour: dissertation "La sculpture bouddhique en bronze en Chine [Buddhist sculpture in bronze in China]"
- Maximin Berko: dissertation "Les brûles-parfums à l'époque des Han: le type du Boshanlu [Incense burners of the Han: the Boshanlu type]"
- Irina Biovir: Master's thesis "Les fondations d'art traditionnel contemporain japonais: l'exemple de Mitsukoshi-Étoile [The foundations of contemporary Japanese folk art: the example of Mitsukoshi-Étoile]"
- Eva Blasi: Master's thesis "L'aménagement architectural de la voie de l'âme sous les dynasties Ming et Qing [The architectural layout of the path of the soul during the Ming and Qing]"
- Hélène Chollet: dissertation "Aspects de la société en Chine du Nord sous la dynastie des Liao: Apport des textes et des fouilles archéologiques [Aspects of society in North China under the Liao Dynasty: the contribution of texts and archaeological excavations]"
- Jade d'Alpoim Guedes: Master's thesis ""Les sites préhistoriques des marches occidentales du Sichuan [Prehistoric sties on the Western marches of Sichuan]"
- Ariane de Saxce: Master's thesis "Le commerce maritime en Asie du Sud du Ier au Ve siècle {Maritime commerce in Southeast Asia from the 1st to the 5th centuries]"
- Anne-Marie Duchesneau: Master's thesis "Etudes des six statues de Kannon Bosatsu au temple Daihôon-ji de Kyoto [Studies of the six Kannon Bodhisattva statues in the Kyoto temple Daihôon-ji]"
- Cécile Glardon: Master's thesis "L'exploitation du cuivre au Japon [The use of copper in Japan]"
- HSU Hsiao-ting: dissertation "La peinture contemporaine chinoise: Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) et Zao Wouki né en 1921 [Contemporary Chinese painting: Zhang Daqian (1899-1983) and Zao Wouki (b. 1921)]"
- Nicolas Idier: contemporary Chinese art
- Lyce Jankowski: dissertation "Les cercles de collectionneurs et de numismates dans la région de Pékin durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle: échanges des monnaies anciennes, partage des idées et renouveau des études numismatiques [The circles of collectors and numismatists in the Beijing area during the early 19th century: exchange in ancient coins, sharing ideas and renewal of numismatic studies]"
- Cécile Laly: dissertation "L'influence du modernisme sur la photographie japonaise dans les années 1920-1930 [The influence of modernism on Japanese photography in the years 1920-1930]"
- Francisca Larrain Castro: Master's thesis "Chine du Sud et du Nord à l'age du bronze: Influences et contacts au travers des jades et des bronzes {Northern and Southern China during the Bronze Age: influences and contacts through jades and bronzes]"
- Nicolas Marion: Master's thesis "Chamanisme: les lieux et les équipement [Shamanism: locations and equipment]"
- Xavier Michel-Levasseur: dissertation "Sabres japonais et archéométallurgie du IXe au XVIe s. [Japanese swords and archaeometallurgy of the ninth to the sixteenth centuries]"
- Kunsang Namgyal Lama: dissertation "Les tsha tsha du monde tibétain : études de la production, de l'iconographie et des usages des moulages et estampages bouddhiques [Molded clay tsha tsha of the Tibetan world: production, iconography, and uses of Buddhist molds and stamps]"
- Laure Raibaut: dissertation "Les 'minqi' en céramique, l'évolution de la sculture funéraire de la fin du VIe siècle au début du VIIe siècle [Ceramic mingqi: the evolution of funerary sculpture at the end of the 6th century to the beginning of the 7th century]"
- Josepha Richard: Master's thesis "Le voyage en bateau dans le jardin chinois [Voyage by boat in the Chinese garden]"
- Sandrine Tabard: Master's thesis "Photographier la nation: la découverte de la beauté au Japon (1868-1990) [Photographing the nation: the discovery of beauty in Japan (1868-1990)"
- Selina Yin Yin TING: Master's thesis "L'art et les artistes chinois en France. Le développement de l'art contemporain chinois à Paris. Séjour et interviews d'artistes à Paris [Chinese art and artists in France: the development of contemporary Chinese art in Paris: artists' sojourns and interviews in Paris]"
- Akiko Utsunomya-Bouveret: dissertation "L'influence occidentale et la valorisation de l'art traditionnel au Japon à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle [Western influence and the valorization of traditional art in Japan at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century]"
- Julie Vallee-Raewsky: dissertation "Les populations nomades dans la moyenne vallée du Zerapshan: Etat de la question en Sogdiane septentrionales et les aires voisines (Ferghana, Khoresm, Chach à travers l'étude des monuments funéraires (du 10e s.av n. è. au 2 et 3e s. de n.è.) [Nomadic populations in the Zerapshan central valley: Northern Sogdiana and surrounding areas through the study of funerary monuments (from the 10th c. BC to the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD]"

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University of Alberta

Marie Leduc: dissertation "Transition and Transformation: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Marketplace"

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University of Bologna

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University of Bonn

Simin Afsharnia
DING Lu
Julia Fritz
Regina Höfer: Tibetan art
Nur Özdilmac
Mia Dora Prvan: dissertation "Emerging Art Worlds in Transition: Artistic Evolution in Asian Contemporary Art"
Martha Schulz

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University of British Columbia

CHANG Su-Chen: dissertation "From Local to National: When a National Officer of Backwater Origin Encounters a Cityscape Painting"
GUO Yanlong: dissertation "Face and Body: Socio-politically Coded Tomb Figurines of the Han Dynasty"
IKEDA Asato: dissertation "Mobilizing Every Body: Japanese Art, Fascism, and War (1931-1945)"
April Liu: dissertation "Living in Auspiciousness: The Revival of Mianzhu's New Year Picture (Nianhua) Industry"
Kazuko Kameda-Madar: dissertation "Image, Text, Ideology and Network: Transforming Visual Representations of Kyokusuien in Early Modern Japan"

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University of California, Berkeley

KUNIMOTO Namiko: dissertation "Portraits of the Sun: Gender and Nationhood in the Art of Tanaka Atsuko and Shiraga Kazuo"
William Ma: Sino-European artistic exchange
Micki McCoy: Chinese and Central Eurasian visual culture
Yi Yang (Dept of History): dissertation "Mortuary Culture and the Transformation of Elite Society in Tang China"

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University of California, Davis

Peter Basmarjian: Chinese art
Monica Butler: MA thesis "Between Tradition and Modernity: The Composite Photographs of Long Chin San"
Unity Love-Taylor: Chinese art
KONG Wan
PAN Yanlin

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University of California, Irvine

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham (Dept of History): dissertation "Wandering Lives: Cartoonist Zhang Leping and Sanmao the Orphan in Twentieth-Century China"
Christina Spiker: Japanese photography and modern art, Ainu representation and activism, ethnographic photography and film, transnational flow of images, and issues concerning tourism and modernity
YOSHIDA Kenichi: dissertation "Modes of Totality in Postwar Japanese Avant-Garde"

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University of California, Los Angeles

P. Jeffrey Brantingham
Julia Evelyn Grimes: dissertation "The Elements of Style: The 1950s Art of Zao Wou-Ki"
Anke Hein: dissertation "Prehistoric Cultures of the Liangshan District: Disentangling Identities in a Multiregional Interaction Sphere"
Minku Kim: dissertation "Apologetics for the Cult of Foreign Images: Epigraphic Evidence for Early Buddhist Art in China"
Oh Mee Lee: Korean art
Min Li
Kuei-chen Lin
Kristen Loring: dissertation "Region, Locality, and Visual Strategy: Hua Yan (1682-1756) and 'Yangzhou School' Painting"
Yingchen PENG: dissertation "his Imperial Body: The Cultural Enterprise of Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)"
Gabriel Ritter: dissertation "Kitawaki Noboru and Surrealism in Japan, 1930-1951"
Ching-Hsin WU: dissertation "A Buddhist Avant-Garde Painter: Koga Harue (1895-1933) and Modern Art in Japan"
Jonlin WUNG: Chinese art
YOSHITAKE Mika: dissertation "Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha and Bikyoto in Postwar Japan (1968-1974)"
Hanmo Zhang
ZHANG Liangren: Bronze Age archaeology of Central Eurasia and China

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University of California, Riverside

Hsiao-chi YANG: modern/contemporary: thesis on contemporary Taiwanese fashion

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University of California, San Diego

Julie Bennett Ashton: postwar Japanese art
Orianna Cacchione: internationalization of the art world, conceptualism, alternative art spaces, participatory practices
Ha Yoon Jung: abstract Art in 20th-century East Asia
Lesley Ma: Taiwan modernist painters (late 1950s-1960s), women artists in Republican China, Contemporary art by Sinophone artists
Paul Ricketts: dissertation on international graphic design techniques used in Chinese and Japanese popular illustrated magazines from the 1920s and 1930s
Tim Shea: spatiality and experimentation in China's art academies (1977-1986); histories of photography in 20th-century East and Southeast Asia
Tongyun Yin: dissertation "Liulichang, the Art Markets and Painting in Early Republican Beijing, 1911-1937 "

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University of California, Santa Barbara

Hanyun CHANG: dissertation "He Tianjian (1891-1977) and Defense of Guohua"
Seokwon CHOI: dissertation "Fashioning Identities in Late Ming Portraits: Zeng Jing and the Literati of Late Ming Jiangnan"
Wencheng YAN: Chinese vernacular architecture; blog http://www.chinesevernaculararchitecture.com/

Gabrielle Chang: modern Chinese painting

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University of Chicago

Irene Backus: dissertation "Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence" (R. Zorach)
Max Bohnenkamp: dissertation "Revolutionary Folklorism: Folk Literature and Arts in the People's Republic of China, 1942-1966"
Sun-ah Choi: dissertation "Quest for 'True Visage': A Study on the Concept of Real in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Visual Culture"
Kris Imants Ercums: dissertation "Envisioning Modernity: Exhibition Culture and Modern Chinese Art, 1918-1937"
Anne Feng: Chinese art
Helen Findley: dissertation "Moveable Feast: The Place of Sekkyo in Meiji Buddhist Discourse"
Eleanor Hyun: dissertation "Encounters and Revisions: Late 18th-Century Chinese and Korean Art"
Justin Jesty: art and activism in postwar Japan
Seung-hye Lee: dissertation "Space for the Buddha's Bodies: The Buddhist Relic Depositories in Late Medieval China"
Yuhang LI: dissertation "Gendered Materialization: An Investigation of Late Imperial Chinese Women's Artistic and Literary Reproductions of Guanyin"
Nancy Lin: dissertation "Representing Difference: The Self and Other in Early 20th Century Japanese and Korean Art"
Mia Liu: dissertation "Literati Lenses: Landscape in Chinese Cinema"
Quincy Ngan: Chinese painting and calligraphy, connoisseurship
SHI Jie: dissertation "Housing the Majesty in the Dark: Princely Tombs in Western Han China (206 BCE-8 CE)"
Catherine Stuer: dissertation "Maps, Itineraries, Traces: The City of Nanjing and Iconographies of Place in China"
Stephanie Wenhui Su: 20th-century Chinese and French art
Cynthia Townsend: dissertation "A Contextual Study of Chinese Burial Figurines: Eastern Zhou through Northern and Southern Dynasties"
Jin XU: Chinese art
XU Peng: dissertation "Music, Literature, and Print Culture: The Literati Singing of Kunqu in Late Ming China"
Christina Yu: dissertation "Building a Community through Painting: Fourteenth Century Chinese Scholars"
ZHANG Lidong: pre-Qin material culture

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University of Colorado at Boulder

Nicole Schwager: contemporary Chinese art
Stephanie Silberman: contemporary Japanese art

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University of Florida

Ruth Sheng: Chinese art history

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University of Glasgow

Michelle Defreese: MPhil thesis "Unidentified Chinese Export Armorial Porcelain in the V&A Collection"
Mingyuan Hu: dissertation "From Shanghai to Paris and Back Again: Fou Lei's Intellectual Development as an Art Critic"
Jason Steuber: dissertation "The 1935/6 International Exhibition of Chinese Art: Chinese Art Exhibitions and the Roles of Provenance and Politics"
Yi Wang: dissertation "The Western Impact on Chinese Ceramics Design during the 17-18th Century"

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University of Hawai'i at Manoa

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University of Hong Kong

LEUNG Pui Yi : Chinese art history

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Huang Mengchen: MA, Chinese art
Shih Fu-chi: MA, Chinese art

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University of Iowa

Soomin Kim: dissertation "Performing Yayoi Kusama"
Nathan Peterson: dissertation "Re-Imaging China: Ai Weiwei and Contemporary Chinese Art"

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University of Kansas

Lili CHIU: dissertation "The Image of Lohans Crossing the Water and Its Social and Historical Context in Ming Dynasty Popular Culture"
Kyung-won Choe: dissertation "The Crowing of Hens: Buddhist Paintings Sponsored by Court Women of the Early Choson Dynasty (1392-1592)"
Veronica DeJong: dissertation "Visual (Re)presentations of Women: A Study of Informal Female Portraits, ca. 1580-ca. 1910"
Kevin Greenwood: dissertation "Yonghegong: Art, Religion, and Politics in Beijing's Lama Temple"
Sooa IM: dissertation "Transnational Perspective on Eighteenth-Century Court Documentary Painting in China and Korea"
Sangnam Lee: dissertation "Traces of a Lost Landscape Tradition of the Early Joseon Dynasty (1392-1550): A Case Study of the Cross-Cultural Relationships in Korean and Chinese Paintings"
LIU Ai-Lian: dissertation "Yang Weizhen (1296-1370) and the Social Art of Painting Inscriptions"
Ya-chen MA
Hui Wang MARTIN: dissertation "Guangsheng Monastery: The Study of Its Art and Architecture from a Ming Perspective"
Lou Morrison
Midori OKA
Halle O'Neal: dissertation "The Power of Word: An Examination of Text and Image Issues and the Role of Dharma Relics in Japanese Buddhist Paintings of the Ninth through Fourteenth Centuries"
Hillary Pedersen: dissertation "The Five Great Space Repository Bodhisattvas and Imperial Power in Ninth-Century Japan"
Lisa Pluth
Helen Shin
TSAI Hsing-li (Charlene): Chen Hongshou's Literary Gathering (Shanghai Museum)
Elizabeth Williams: dissertation "Casting a New Mold: The American Silver Industry and Japanese Meiji Metalwork 1876–1893"
Amanda Wright: dissertation "Qiu Ti (1906-1958) and the Storm Society (1931-1935): Modernist Ideology, Public Receptivity, and Personal Identity"

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University of Lisbon

Rui Oliveira Lopes: dissertation "Art and Alterity. Confluences of Christian Art in Asia (1500 - 1800)"

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University of Ljubljana

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University of Manchester

Hee Jung LEE: dissertation on Fu Baoshi

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University of Maryland

Madeline Gent: Chinese art
Suzie Kim: dissertation "Competing Constructivisms in East Asia during the 1930s"
Rebecca Merritt: Japanese art
Xingkui WANG: Chinese art
Jingmin ZHANG: dissertation "Chinese Painting Research Society at Beijing: Modernity, Art, Antiquity, and Nationalism, 1920–1937"

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University of Michigan

Rebecca Bieberly: dissertation "'True' Images: Seeing/Reading at the Lingyan Temple in Eleventh-Century China"
Vivian Li: dissertation "Art's Public Lives: Post-1949 Sculpture in China"
Elissa Park: dissertation "Negotiating the Modern in Art: Pan Yuliang (1895-1977) and Transnational Modernity"

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University of Minnesota

Carol Brash: dissertation "Keeping the Past Present: Representations of the Garden in 16th-Century China"

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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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University of Oregon

Daniel Borengasser: East Asian Buddhist art and architecture with a particular focus on the arts of early Japanese esoteric Buddhism
Hui FANG: Chinese literati painting and related theories, currently focusing on the Qing dynasty literati painter Shitao (ca. 1642 - after 1707)
Faith Kreskey: currently pursuing a Master's degree in Japanese art, focusing on woodblock printed toys and games from the Edo and Meiji periods
Charlotte Mueller: Edo-period gesaku literature, especially the later stage of kusazoshi, the gokan, concentrating on the Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji by Tanehiko Ryutei and illustrated by Utagawa Kunisada from 1829-1842, a creative re-telling of the The Tale of Genji

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University of Oxford

John L. Carlson
Winnie Y. L. Chan: dissertation "Merchants and the State's Remaking of Garden Culture in Qing China"
Beichen CHEN
Xuan CHEN
CHEN Yi: dissertation "Geometric Design Ceramics in Ancient Southern China: Roles and Meanings"
Ros Holmes: dissertation "Inclined towards Progress: Picturing Civility in Contemporary China"
Yiu-kang HSU
Qiqi JIANG: dissertation "Tang Sancai"
Celine Lai: dissertation "Resemblance and Resistance: Contacts between the Shang and the South during the Early Bronze Age (c.1200-1045 BC)"
Chen LI
Yan LIU
Yujen LIU: dissertation "A Paradigm in Transition: The Concept of Art in the Early Twentieth-century China (1905-1923)"
Monica Merlin: dissertation "The Late Ming courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604): Art and Social Connections"
Benedetta Mottino: dissertation "Developments in the Representation of Afterlife Beliefs as Displayed in Jin Dynasty Tombs in Southern Shanxi"
Sarah Ng: dissertation "The Impact of Chunhua ge tie on the Style of Calligraphy in Ming Dynasty"
Rachel Silberstein: Chinese textiles
Rui Wen: dissertation "Blue Colour on Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain and Islamic Glazed Pottery"
Hsiao-Yun WU: dissertation "The Zhou Chariot: Politics, Ritual, and Cultural Interaction"

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University of Pennsylvania

Alexandra Harrer: dissertation "Fan-Shaped Bracket Sets and Their Application in Pre-Yuan Monastery Architecture of Shanxi Province"
Quintana Heathman: Japanese art Minkyung Ji: dissertation "Secularizing the Visual in Death: Images and Material Consumption in Funerary Art of Mid-Imperial China and Korea"
Erin Kelley: dissertation "Confronting Modernity: White Birch Magazine and the Japanese Avant-garde"
J. Kenmotsu: Japanese art
Sarah Laursen: dissertation "Leaves that Sway: Gold Xianbei Cap Ornaments from Northeast China"
Jeehyun Lee: dissertation "Crossing National Borders: Japonisme and the Development of Japanese Oil Painting, 1886-1907"
Miki Morita: Central Asian religious art
Eiren Shea Warneck

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University of Pittsburgh

Lihui DONG: contemporary art, especially the history of Chinese photography and cross-cultural studies
HAN Jiayao: dissertation "Creating Visual Emblems for Militarized Frontier Societies of Eastern Zhou Dynastic China (771-221 BCE)"
Jung Hui KIM: the relationship between Japan and the West in modern times; MA thesis "Pictorial Representations of Byodoin as Political Propaganda"
Jungeun Lee: Japanese art
Yuki MORISHIMA: dissertation "Portraits of Japanese Emperors: Their Political and Ritual Usages"
Rachel Miller: Renaissance and Baroque art, Japanese art, exchanges between Europe and Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries; MA thesis "For the Greater Glory of Deusu: Art and Architecture on the Jesuit Mission in Japan"
Elizabeth Morrissey: Japanese art
Elizabeth Self: Japanese art
Sara Sumpter: Japanese art of the medieval period; MA thesis "The Shôkyû Version of the Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki:The Religious Iconography and Functionality of a Thirteenth-Century Japanese Handscroll"

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University of Southern California

Hyunjung Cho: dissertation "Competing Futures: War Narrative in Postwar Japanese Architecture, 1945-1970"
Younjung Oh: dissertation "Art into Everyday Life: The Japanese Department Store, 1900s to 1930s"

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University of Sussex

Anne-Gaelle David: thesis on Zhao Wuji and Zhu Dequn

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University of the Arts London Chelsea

Ajaykumar: dissertation "Technology, Art, and Being: An Ontological Investigation, with Reference to the Rock Cut Edifices of Ellora, Tadao Ando's Water Temple, and Contemporary Technological Practice"
Helena Capkova: dissertation "Interpreting Japan: Central European Architecture and Design 1920-1940"
Kaoru KOJIMA: the image of woman in modern Japanese art, 1890-1945
Pamela Kember: dissertation " Perfectly At Home, Nowhere:Visual Diaspora and Artists from Hong Kong"
Cindy Lisica: dissertation "Beyond Consumption: the Art and Merchandise of a Superflat Generation"
Piotr Splawski: American and Polish Japonisme, 1890-1940
Suzana Vaz: dissertation "Body/Mind Practices and Creative Process: The Japanese Gutai Group and the Brazilian Post-Neoconcrete Artists"

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University of Tokyo

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University of Toronto

Monica Guu: dissertation "Polyphonic Texts: Tracking the Meanings of Art Deco in Shanghai, 1923-1937"
Christina Han: dissertation "Territory of the Sages: Neo-Confucian Discourse of Wuyi Nine Bends Jingjie"
Banu Kaygusuz: comparative approach to socio-cultural aspects of Meiji Japan and the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire
Sara Osenton: contemporary Japanese art, hybridity, post-humans (robots and cyborgs), multi-temporality, Zenga, avant-garde art and parody
Elizabeth Parke: dissertation "Infrastructures of Critique: The Art and Visual Cultures of Contemporary Beijing"
James D. Poborsa: contemporary Chinese art, aesthetic theory, and the intellectual history of modern and contemporary China
Sarah Aoife Richardson: dissertation "Authoring Images: Text and Image in 14th-Century Tibetan Mural Paintings at Zhalu"

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University of Virginia

Elena Pakhoutova: dissertation "Reproducing the Sacred Places: The Eight Great Events of the Buddha's Life and Their Commemorative Stupas in the Medieval Art of Tibet"

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University of Washington

H. Abby Chen: tracing the sources and manifestations of Taiwanese culture (not exclusively visual arts) from and in this century
Connie Earnshaw: dissertation "Ming Illustrations of Bo Juyi's Tang Poem Pipa Xing (Guitar Song)"
Lenore Hietkamp: architectural history of China, specifically the early 20th century and its relationship to the cultural development of modernity in Shanghai
Melissa Thompson: dissertation "Gathering Jade, Assempling Splendor: The Life and Art of Zeng Youhe"
Danielle Turner: Edo period prints & paintings
ZHANG Meng: contemporary & avant-garde Chinese art

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Michelle Yun-ju Huang: dissertation "Dunhuang Cave #446: The Embodiment of Hua-yen Buddhism"
Laura Mueller: dissertation "Competition and Collaboration in Edo Print Culture: Creative Specialization and Market Eminence of Artists of the Utagawa School, 1770–1900"
Jae-Suk Park: dissertation "Su Shi Wearing Bamboo Hat and Clogs"
Janet Lee Spurgeon: dissertation "Constructing the Classical Japanese Past: History Paintings of the Meiji Period"
Izumi TAKASAKI: Japanese material culture

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University of Zürich

Jeanne Egloff: dissertation "The Japanese relation with foreign art during the late Edo-Period: How were foreign artefacts displayed in the art of Japanese woodblock print?"
Roland Ryû Hutter: dissertation "Wajima Lacquer: Examining the Success of 'The Most Representative Lacquer Ware of Japan' and Its Relationship to Other Lacquer Types"
Wakako Katsube-Nixdorf: working title "Narrative Semiotics of Aesthetic Nationalism: Decoding Okakura Kakuzô's History of Japanese Art through the Actantial Model of A.J. Greimas"
Carmen Liou: working title "Blumen- und Vogelmalerei als Sujet weiblicher Malerinnen zwischen der späten Ming- und der frühen Qing- Zeit (Flower and bird painting as a subject of female painters from the late Ming to early Qing)"

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Washington University, St. Louis

Ling-yu HUNG: dissertation "Pottery Production, Mortuary Practices, and Social Complexity of the Majiayao Culture in Northwest China (ca. 3300-2000 BC)"

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Yale University

Bradley Bailey: dissertation "Over There: Yoga, Japonisme and a New Orientalism"
Daniel Greenberg: dissertation "The Art of Tribute in the Reign of the Qianlong Emperor"
Eric Rasmussen: dissertation "Wang Shen (born ca. l048) and Landscape Painting Among the Elite in Northern Song China, 1069-1120)"
YANG Yan: dissertation "The Landscape Screen at Toji and the Historiography of Yamatoe"
Ingrid Yuet Ting YEUNG: Chinese and Korean Art

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York University

Akiko Takesue: dissertation "Transferred Objects and the Idea of Japan: Japanese Ceramic Collection of Sir William Van Horne"

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