Alumni

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.

Rebecca Levitan

Rebecca Levitan (2015) studies the art and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Her research centers around Greek sculpture, as well as the reception of classical antiquity in Europe and the United States. She has excavated, drafted, and surveyed in Greece (American Excavations at the Athenian Agora, Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace, Small Cycladic Islands Project) and Italy (Gabii Project, Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia).

Levitan received her B.A. in Art History from Emory University and her M.Litt in Ancient History...

Mary Lewine

Mary Lewine works on objects deposited into Buddhist statues in East Asia, with a particular focus on stamped and printed replications of Buddha images. She is interested in conceptions of sacred presence, iconicity, ontologies of the relic, and the poetics of the hidden. Her research explores transregional circulations of knowledge and material culture through Buddhist networks; the agency of the seal; and iconographic development. Her dissertation focuses on a particular category of statue deposit prevalent among the deposit assemblages of 13th and 14th century statues from Kansai...

Evie Lincoln

Evelyn Lincoln (PhD 1994) is Professor of the History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies at Brown University, where she teaches the history of early modern European art and architecture, specializing in the history of printmaking and history of the book and book illustration in Italy. She is the author of The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker (Yale UP 2000) and Brilliant Discourse (Yale UP 2014), and articles on early modern Roman printing and publishing, authorship, and notions of intellectual property.

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Josephine Lopez

Josie Lopez (2009) is currently conducting research and writing her dissertation in New Mexico with the support of the SMU Eleanor Tufts Fellowship. Her dissertation examines nineteenth-century political satire and caricature in the prints of Mexican lithographer Constantino Escalante.

Vanessa Lyon

J. Vanessa Lyon (2011) is Associate Professor of Art History at Bennington College where she Directs the Visual Arts Lecture Series. Lyon’s first book Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens was published in 2020 (Amsterdam UP). In 2021, she was guest curator of Girl You Want, the inaugural exhibition of the contemporary art center ArtYard in Frenchtown, NJ. Lyon’s novel, The Groves is forthcoming as an Audible Original in 2021.

William Ma

William H. Ma (2008) is writing a dissertation on the art and craft workshops at the French Jesuit Orphanage Tushanwan in Shanghai in the early twentieth century. His main areas of interest include the artistic exchange between China and the West (Europe and America) during the late-imperial period, regionalism in Chinese art, and Chinese export art in Guangzhou (Canton).

Laure Marest

Laure Marest-Caffey (Ph.D. 2017) is the Cornelius and Emily Vermeule Assistant Curator of Greek and Roman Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She oversees with her colleagues one of the largest and most encyclopedic collections in the United States. She is currently working on several new permanent galleries and a catalog of the MFA’s world-class collection of ancient engraved gems. Laure received in 2018 an award from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) for her research on social networks evidenced in the clay sealings excavated at Seleucia on the Tigris, Iraq. She has...