Kristopher W. Kersey is associate professor of art history at UCLA, where he researches Japanese art, design, and aesthetics. His first book Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity (Penn State University Press, 2024) models a new paradigm for the study of art history, one that moves beyond reductive West/rest and modern/pre-modern frameworks. His work has been supported by fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), the Getty Research Institute, the National Museum of Asian Art, and the European Research Council. He is a member of the First-Generation Faculty Initiative and is on the advisory boards for the Center for Early Global Studies, the Center for 17th– and 18th-Century Studies, the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, and the Center for Buddhist Studies. He is also an affiliated faculty member with Global Antiquity.
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