Alumni

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 and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History. Her research focuses on European and American modernism in the 19th and 20th centuries has resulted in three books: The Nabis and Intimate Modernism: Painting and the Decorative at the Fin de Siècle(Routledge, 2010); Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism (Yale, 2019), which was awarded a publishing grant from the Furthermore Foundation; Henry van de...

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 (2010) 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...

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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