Alumni

Elaine Yau

Elaine Y. Yau (PhD 2015) is associate curator of the African American quilt collection at BAMPFA, where she is organizing an exhibition from Eli Leon’s historic bequest of approximately 3,000 quilts for fall 2024. She co-curated Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective in 2020 with Larry Rinder, an exhibition deepened her long-standing engagement with art at the intersection of discourses on folk art, vernacular culture, and modernism. She has published on Gertrude Morgan and Minnie Evans, and her critical essay on folk art was included in The...

Antonia Young

Antonia Young (2009) specializes in ancient Roman art, with an emphasis on Roman painting. She received her B.A. in Classical Civilizations from Wellesley College and her M.A. in Classics from U.C. Berkeley. As an art historian originally trained as a Classical philologist, her work explores the intersection of ancient Roman art, architecture, and literature. For example, her dissertation, “‘Green Architecture’: The Interplay of Art and Nature in Roman Houses and Villas” (supervised by Professor Christopher Hallett), examines the convergence of art and nature in Roman wall painting...

Marnin Young

Marnin Young (PhD 2005) is Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University. He is the author of Realism in the Age of Impressionism: Painting and the Politics of Time (Yale University Press, 2015). The book received a Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant from the College Art Association and an Honorable Mention for the Robert Motherwell Book Award. Dr. Young has published articles and reviews on nineteenth-century French painting in The Art Bulletin, Art History, ...

Patricia Yu

Patricia J. Yu is a doctoral candidate studying Chinese art with Professor Patricia Berger. Her dissertation addresses the Qing imperial garden of the Yuanming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) and the way in which its ruins and looted objects have been reproduced, reinterpreted, and reconstructed in modern and contemporary China. Her research interests also include Qing court art, art in cross-cultural translation, and issues of cultural heritage and preservation. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, under the scholar theme “Iconoclasm and...