Alumni

Aaron Hyman

Aaron M. Hyman (PhD 2017) is assistant professor in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy n Colonial Latin America, is forthcoming (July, 2021) with the Getty Research Institute. A specialist of early modern art in the Spanish Empire, he has published in Colonial Latin American Review, Representations, Art Bulletin, and Print Quarterly, among other venues. He was recipient of the 2018 Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association.

Sonal Khullar

Sonal Khullar (Ph.D. 2009) has been appointed W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania effective July 1, 2020. She is completing a book manuscript, The Art of Dislocation: Conflict and Collaboration in Contemporary Art from South Asia, under advance contract with the University of California Press. She is editing a volume, From Kitabkhana [Library] to Karkhana [Workshop]: The Arts of the...

Jinah Kim

Jinah Kim (PhD 2006) is Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. Her first book, Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (UC Press, 2013) earned AAS Bernard Cohen Prize honorable mention in 2015. She is currently finishing her second book, "Garlands of Visions: Color, Tantra, and a Material History of Indian painting,” which demonstrates how “pothi” manuscripts transformed Indian painting into a portable media that can transfer a vast amount of visual...

Sunglim Kim

Sunglim Kim (Ph.D. 2009) is Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Dartmouth College. In 2013-14 Sunglim presented her research on chaekgeori screens at the 2013 AAS annual conference in San Diego and at the Triangle East Asia Colloquium at the University of North Carolina, and her research was developed into an article, “Chaekgeori: multi-dimensional messages in late Joseon Korea,” that was published in Archives of Asian Art (Spring 2014)....

Sabine Kriebel

After finishing her PhD in 2003 (co-advised by Anne Wagner and TJ Clark), Sabine Kriebel worked for a year at the National Gallery in Washington DC on the groundbreaking Dada exhibition, before taking up a permanent post in Ireland. Her current book project rethinks the often maligned modernist realist phenomenon called The New Objectivity via psychoanalysis and phenomenology. Her first book Revolutionary Beauty: The Radical Photomontages of John Heartfield (...

Katherine Kuenzli

Katherine Kuenzli (2002) is Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University. Her research focuses on European modernism 1880-1940 and has resulted in two books, The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin de Siècle (Routledge, 2010) and Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism(Yale, 2019), which was awarded a publishing grant from the Furthermore Foundation. She is currently editing a translation and scholarly edition entitled Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889-1914, under contract...

Grace Kuipers

Grace Kuipers studies 20th century art of the Americas. Her dissertation, entitled Mineral Modernism: The Mexican Subsoil and the Remapping of American Form in the 1930s theorizes an aesthetics of extraction in the transnational dialogue between U.S. and Mexican art in the 1930s. She has worked on diverse projects surrounding institutional histories of modernism, the labor of nude modeling, and the lives of commissioned portraiture, with geographical focuses that span Europe, the United States, and Latin America. Prior to her arrival at Berkeley, Grace interned...

Namiko Kunimoto

Namiko Kunimoto is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. She is a specialist in modern and contemporary Japanese art, with research interests in gender, race, urbanization, photography, visual culture, performance art, transnationalism, and nation formation.

Her essays include “Olympic Dissent: Art, Politics, and the Tokyo Games” in Asia Pacific Japan Focus, “Tactics and Strategies: Chen Qiulin and the Production of Space” forthcoming in Art Journal and “Shiraga Kazuo: The Buddhist Hero” published in Shiraga/Motonaga: Between Action and the...

Rosaline Kyo

Rosaline is a PhD candidate specializing in 20th century Chinese and Tibetan art. Her dissertation focuses on visual cultures and the codification of body standards and behavior as it pertains to the process of nation building in 20th century China. She examines specific visual propaganda projects and their intersection with contemporaneous political campaigns and practices of image production. She has conducted research for extended periods of time in Nepal, China and the Tibetan Autonomous Region with support from the History of Art Department and the Institution of East Asian...

Christopher Lakey

Christopher Lakey is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art at Johns Hopkins University. His first book, Sculptural Seeing: Relief, Optics, and the Rise of Perspective in Medieval Italy, was awarded a Millard Meiss Publication Fund grant by the College Art Association in Fall 2017 and will be published by Yale University Press in October 2018. Last year (AY 17/18), Lakey was CRIA Fellow at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Studies in Florence, Italy.