William H. Ma (2016) is the assistant professor of Asian art history at Louisiana State University. He has
spent last year busy searching and presen>ng on his various projects. In May, he was in
Mar>nique to speak on a panel on decolonizing art history. A week later, he was in Prague
presen>ng a paper on the transla>on of dynas>c bronze urns from China to Vietnam to France,
followed by research trips to Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Brighton, and London to visit European
various chinoiserie interiors and export Chinese porcelain. In June, he was a fellow at the
Harvard’s Houghton Library to study eighteenth-century French-made copper-engravings
intended for the Qing Chinese emperor Qianlong. In September, he presented a paper about
European ceramics decora>ng Nguyen Vietnamese imperial structures in Porto. He was
recently awarded the Ogden Honors College Outstanding Teaching Award, the third teaching
award he received in the last six years at LSU.
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