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Recent Grants

Doctoral Grants
2024/2025
  • Trevor Menders, Harvard University -- "Dancing with Genji: Painting, Performance, and Politics in Late Medieval Japan"
  • Vidhita Raina, University of Kansas -- "Fabricating Sarasa: Patterns of Global Exchange in Early Modern Japanese Textiles and Visual Culture"
  • Wei Wu, University of California, San Diego -- "Another Public, Another Nation: The Urban-based Artistic and Political Activities of Members of the Modern Print Society, 1934-1949"
2023/2024
  • Leah Justin-Jinich, Harvard University -- "Ties that Bind: Exploring Complex Social Relationships within Japanese Inscribed Paintings"
  • Isabel McWilliams, Harvard University -- Fieldwork on Mogao Cave 148
  • Le Sun, University of Chicago -- "Interwoven Threads: Visual Culture of the Southern Shanxi Region Before and After the Mongol Conquest, 1127-1368 CE"
2022/2023
  • Haely Chang, University of Michigan -- "Drawing Hills and Capturing Ranges: Tokuda Tomijirō and Tokuda Gyokuryū's Liminal Reproduction of the Diamond Mountains"
  • Chen Jiang, Columbia University -- "Repainting the Past: Kikuchi Yōsai's (1788-1878) Visualization of HIstory"
  • Asako Katsura, UC Irvine -- "Busshitsu in Photography: The Materiality of Photographed Objects in Conceptual Photography in Japan and California in the 1960s-1970s"
  • Tong Su, University of Wisconsin -- "The Phantom of Empire: Stagecraft in Qing Court Production of Art and Theatre"
  • Soohyun Yoon, Duke University -- "Inventing Tradition in Buddhist Art: Women's Reproduction of Thirty-Two Manifestations of Bodhisattva Guanyin, 1500-1750"
2021/2022
  • Tianyuan Deng -- New York University, Institute of Fine Arts "Modernism for the Masses: Building Culture in Republican China, 1905-1937"
  • Xinyue Yuan -- University of California, Irvine "Art, Technology, and Audiences: A Global History of Modern Chinese Artists' Books, 1925-1948"
  • Pinyan Zhu -- University of Kansas "Longmen under Emperor Wu Zhao (r. 690-705 CE): Heavenly Cemetery, Visions, and Huayan Buddhism in Medieval China"
2020/2021
  • Daniel Borengasser -- Harvard University "Hall of the Lotus King: Sculpture and Multiplicity in Early Medieval Japan"
  • Ruiying Gao -- University of Kansas "Collating Nature as Culture: Materia Media Images in Ming China"
  • Helen Catherine Swift -- Harvard University "Founding Yōga: Kuroda Seiki's vision for a 'Western school' of Japanese painting"
  • Henning von Mirback -- University of California, Santa Barbara "Fa Ruozhen (1613-1696) and the Moralized Landscape in Early Qing China"
  • Yizhou Wang -- Heidelberg University "Beauties Moving in Jiangnan and Edo Pictoral Spaces (mid-14th to 17th centuries"
2019/2020
  • Mycah Brazelton-Braxton -- Harvard University "The Imaginative Power of the Photograph: Ei-Q and the New Photography Movement"
  • Yun-Chen Lu -- UC Santa Barbara "Gao Fenghan's (1683-1749) Path to Eccentricity and the Growth of Epigraphical Writing in Early Qing Yangzhou"
  • Holly Rubalcava -- University of Wisconsin, Madison "Sites of Wonder, Signs of Sin: Defining and Visualizing Illness and Disability in Early-Medieval Japanese Visual Culture"
  • Yeorae Yoon -- New York University "Mapping Gao Fenghan's Art, 1683-1749: Locality, Experientiality, and Social Criticism"
2018/2019
  • Fabienne Helfenberger -- Harvard University "Nikkō and Beyond: A Study of Early Tokugawa Mausoleum Architecture"
  • Ziliang Liu -- Harvard University "Shaping the Everlasting Brighness: Art Medium in Early Imperial China"
2017/2018
  • Steffani Bennett -- Harvard University: "The China Years: Sesshu Toyo and Fifteenth-century Ming Painting"
  • Fletcher Coleman -- Harvard University: "Ascetic Aesthetics: The Brahman Ascetic and Buddhist Identity in Early Medieval China"
2016/2017
  • Gabrielle Niu -- University of Pennsylvania: "Beyond Silk: A Re-assessment of Jin Painting"

2015/2016

  • Bing Huang -- Harvard University: "Occidental Design: Instrumental Precision and Spatial Diagramming in Eighteenth-Century China"
  • Sol Jung -- Princeton University: "Assembling 'Korea': Peninsular Arts in Sixteenth-Century Japan"
2014/2015
  • Katherine Brooks -- Harvard University: “Printed Things: Medium Texture, and Poetry in Japanese Surimono”
  • Frank Feltens -- Columbia Uinversity: “Tea, Poetics, and Theatre in the Arts of Ogata Korin (1658-1716)”
  • Di Luo -- University of Southern California: “A Grain of Sand: Yingzao Fashi and the Miniaturization of Chinese Architecture”
2013/2014
  • Wei Ren -- Harvard University: “Judging by the Cover: Tao Yuanqing's Book Cover Designs for Lu Xun, 1924-1929”
2012/2013
  • Kristopher Kersey -- UC Berkeley: “Emperor Go-Shirakawa (1127-1192) and the Image of Classical Japan”
  • Miki Morita -- University of Pennsylvania: “Illuminating the Path: Kshitigarbha bodhisattva in Uighur Buddhist art and religious history”
  • Rachel Saunders -- Harvard University: “Touching Paradise: Patriarch Portraits, Miraculous Origins, and Magical Poetics in Kamakura Period Handscrolls”
2011/2012
  • Seokwan Choi -- UC Santa Barbara: “Fashioning Identities in Late Ming Portraits: Zeng Jing (1564-1647) and the Literati of Late Ming Jiangnan”
  • Jiayao Han -- University of Pittsburgh: “Creating Visual Emblems for Militarized Frontier Societies of Eastern Zhou Dynastic China (771-221 BCE)”
  • Lihong Liu -- Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: “Places and Place: Wen Zhengming’s Late Work and the Significance of Jing”
2010/2011
  • Phillip Bloom: “A Textile Tester of Brick: Maitreya Eschatology, Popular Esotericism, and the Pagoda at Xiuding Monastery”
  • Aurelia Campbell: “Qutan Monastery and Early Ming Dynasty Frontier Politics”
  • Jiayao Han: “Creating Visual Emblems for Militarized Frontier Societies of Eastern Zhou Dynastic China (771-221 BCE)”
 
2009/2010
  • Youn-mi Kim: "Eternal Ritual: Relic Crypts of the Chaoyang North Pagoda (1043-1044 CE)"
  • Hilary Pedersen: "The Five Great Space Repository Bodhisattvas and Imperial Power in Ninth-Century Japan"
  • Amanda Wright: "Qiu Ti’s (1906-1958) Contributions to the Storm Society (1931-1935): Modernist Ideology, Public Receptivity, and Personal Identity"

Individual Grants
2024/2025
  • Meghen Jones, Alfred University -- "National Treasures and Ceramic Poetics in Modern Japan"
  • Julia K. Murray, University of Wisconsin; Harvard Fairbank Center -- “Images in the Practice and Popularization of Confucianism across the Early Modern to Modern Transition”
  • Rhiannon Paget, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art -- "Spectacular Japan: From Misemono to Big Top"
  • Alicia Volk, University of MD, College Park -- publication support "In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan"
  • Chingshin Wu, Rutgers University-Camden -- Visualizing “The South”: Images of Taiwan in Modern Japanese Art
2023/2024
  • Boyoung Chang, Vanderbilt University -- "Reconstructing the Nation: Contemporary Korean Photography since the 1990s
  • Yoonah Hwang, University of Southern California -- "Sacred Painted Surface: Material Culture of Painted Banners of Dunhuang"
  • Ariane Perrin, Ca' Foscari University of Venice -- "Picturing the Afterlife: {ainted Tombs of the Koguryo Kingdom (37 BC-AD 668) in Northeast Asia
  • Marco Pompili -- "Public Housing in Japan, Dōjunkai Apartments: Lost landmarks of modern Tokyo (working title)"
  • Stephanie Su, University of Colorado Boulder -- "A Transnational History of Modern Art in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan"
  • Doris Sung, University of Alabama -- "Women of Chinese Modern Art: Gender and Reforming Traditions in National and Global Spheres, 1900s-1930s"
2022/2023
  • Kazuko Kameda-Madar, University of Hawaii -- publication support for "Imagery of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering: Visualizing the Tokugawa Cultural Networks"
  • Ewa Machotka, Stockholm University -- "Environmental Disaster in Early Modern Visual Culture of Japan"
2021/2022
  • Julia Murray, University of Wisconsin, Madison: "The Aura of Confucius: Relics and Representations of the Sage at the Kongzhai Shrine in Shanghai"
  • Amanda Wangwright, University of South Carolina: "Fighting with Art in Wartime China (1937-1949)
2020/2021
  • Jeehey Kim, University of Arizona: "Imagining Colonial Photography: Visualization of Korea during the Japanese Colonial Period"
  • Alison Miller, University of the South: "Inventing the Visual Nobility"
  • Eiren Shea, Grinnell College: "Textile Exchange between East Asia and the Mediterranean World in the Fourteenth Century"
2019/2020
  • Cynthea J. Bogel, Kyushu University: "Cosmology and Two Capitals: Imperial Ideology and a Buddhist Icon at Yakushiji"
  • Sonya Lee, University of Southern California: "Cave Temples of Sichuan and Chongqing in Eco-Art History"
  • Richard Mellott: "Mushakoji Senke, A Study of a Sen Family Tea School"
  • Nancy Steinhardt: "Chinese Architecture, Mongol Patrons"
2018/2019
  • Erin Schoneveld, Haverford College: "Shirakaba and the Birth of Japanese Modernism"
  • Midori Yoshimoto, NJ City University: "Shigeko Kubota Retrospective"
2017/2018
  • Jong Phil Park: "Conflicted Realities: Painting and Cultural Politics in Late Choson Korea (1700-1850)
  • Ariane Perrin: "Protecting Mankind: Korean Shamanist Ritual Paintings of the Late Choson Period (18th-19th centuries)
  • Hsueh-Man Shen: "Authentic Replicas: Buddhist Art in Medieval China (publication)"
  • Michelle C. Wang: "Mandalas in the Making: The Visual Culture of Esoteric Buddhism at Dunhuang"
2016/2017
  • Jeehee Hong: "Seeing through the Gaping Mouth: The Social Efficacy of Laughter in Classical Chinese Art"
  • Tamaki Maeda: "Japan's Visual Dialogue with China, 1895-1930s: The Kyoto Circle"
  • Chari Pradel: "Fabricating the Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara and Prince Shōtoku's Afterlives"
  • Gennifer Weisenfeld: "Protect the Skies! Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan"
2015/2016
  • Yuko Kikuchi: publication support for critical reader of East Asian design history
  • Joshua Mostow: publication support for "A Third Gender: Beautiful Youth in Japanese Prints"
  • Nancy Steinhardt: publication support for "The Borders of Chinese Architecture"
2011/2012
  • Asato Ikeda: publication support for “The Dark Valley: Japanese Art and the Second World War”
  • Elizabeth Lillehoj: publication support for “Symbol and Strategy: the Palace, Warriors, and Art in Japan, 1580-1680”
  • John Szostak: research and publication support for “Kokuten: Tsuchida Bakusen and the Modernization of Traditional Japanese Painting”
  • Alice Tseng: research for “Commemorative Architecture in Modern Japan”
2010/2011
  • Caroline Hirasawa: publication support for “Hellbent on Heaven: Damnation and Salvation in Tateyama mandara”
  • Andrew Maske: support for publication of “Potters and Patrons in Edo Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain”
  • Nancy S. Steinhardt: acquisition of photographs and permissions for “The Borders of Chinese Architecture”
 
2009/2010
  • Stephen Addiss and Audrey Seo: research for "The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin"
  • Maki Kaneko: research for "Art at the Service of the State: Japanese Artists in the War, 1907-1952"
  • Yeewon Koon: research for "Template of a Modern Artist: Su Renshan (1814-c.1850)"
  • Sonya Lee: production support for "Surviving Nirvana: Death of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture"
  • Jong Phil Park: research and publication support for "Ensnaring the Public Eye: Painting Manuals of Late Ming China (1550-1644) and the Negotiation of Taste"
  • Alicia Volk: publication support for "In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art"
 

Institutional Grants
2024/2025
  • University of Hawaii Press, publication support for: "Buddhist Bells Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan" by Sherry Fowler
 
2023/2024
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue: "China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta edited by Clarissa von Spee"
  • MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, exhibition catalogue: "Vienna World's Fair 1873 Revisited: Egypt and Japan as Europe's 'Orient'"
  • The Pennyslvania State University Press, publication: "Facing Images: Problems of Modernity in Japanese Art" by Kristopher Kersey
 
2022/2023
  • Arizona State University -- Arizona's Asian Art in Expanded Digital Archive Phase Three
  • University of Washington Press: publication support for "China Made: Technocratic Culture in the Qing Imperial Porcelain Industry" by Kaijun Chen and "Envisioning the Empress: The Feminine Imperial Image in Japan" by Alison Miller
 
2021/2022
  • University of California Press: publication support for "Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery" by Christine Guth and "Borderless: The Art of Shiy De-Jinn" by ShiPu Wang
  • University of Washington Press: publication support for "Temples in the Cliffside: Buddhist Art in Sichuan" by Sonya Lee and "Mass Production and Individual Creativity: Designing and Manufacturing Bronze Mirrors in Ancient China" by Kin Sumi Li
 
2020/2021
  • Brill: publication support for "The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)"
  • University of Hawaii Press: publication support for "Picturing the Floating WOrld: Ukiyo-e in Context" by Julie Davis
  • University of Washington Press: publication support for "All Under Heaven and the Black Land: Comparative Perspectives on Early China and Ancient Egypt" by Anthony Barbieri
 
2019/2020
  • China Institute in America, Inc.: exhibition catalogue "Ashoka Stupa and Buddhist Offerings: The Legend of Da Bao'en Temple in Nanjing"
  • UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive: "Hinges: Sakaki Hyakusen and the Birth of Nanga Painting"
  • University of Washington Press: publication support for "East Asian Art: Architecture and Empire in the Reign of Yongle, 1402-1424" by Aurelia Campbell and "Eulogy for Burying a Crane and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy" by Lei Xue
 
2018/2019
  • Japan Society NY: catalogue publication support for "Yasumasa Morimura: Who is 'I'?"
  • Portland Art Museum: symposium support for "Poetic Inspiration in Japanese Art: Selections from the Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles"
  • University of Washington Press: publication support for four forthcoming books on East Asian Art
  • University of Zurich: support for "An International Symposium: Arts of the Ryukyu Kingdom"
 
2017/2018
  • Japanese Art Society of America: publication support for "Impressions" Journal, no. 39
  • University of Hawaii Press: publication support for "Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings in Japanese Buddhist Art"
 
2016/2017
  • Freie Universität Berlin: conference publication support for "Moving Signs and Shifting Discourses: Text and Image Relations in East Asian Art"
  • Heidelberg University, Institute of East Asian Art History: support for workshop "Things SEen and Heard in Medieval Japan: Reading and Interpreting the Fifteenth-Century Diary Kanmon nikki"
  • Royal College of Art, London: conference publication support for "Japanese Art - Global Dimensions"
 
2011/2012
  • Arizona State University: “Accessing the Scrolls:Chinese Painting and Calligraphy in an Expanded Digital Archive”
  • Reaktion Books: publication support for Obtaining Images: Art: Production and Display in Edo Japan, by Timon Screech
  • Reaktion Books: publication support for A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture, by Wu Hung
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art: publication support for Invitation to Reclusion: Seventeenth Century Chinese Painting (exhibition catalogue)
 
2010/2011
  • Clark Center for Japanese Art: exhibition and publication support for “Purity of Form: The Evolution of Fukami Sueharu’s Ceramics”
  • Heidelberg University: publication subsidy for a festschrift for Lothar Ledderose
  • Newark Museum: support for the “Red Lacquer Collection Project”
  • UC Berkeley Art Museum: public programming to coincide with the exhibition “Delightful Pursuits: Japanese Art from the Clark Center”
  • University of Hong Kong: publication support for “Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives”
 
2009/2010
  • Reaktion Books: publication support for “The Art of the Yellow Springs: Reading Chinese Tombs,” by Wu Hung
  • University of Zurich: support for conference, “Connoisseurship in East Asian Art”
 

Library Grants
2024/2025
  • Western Bank Library, University of Sheffield
  • University of British Columbia Asian Library
2023/2024
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum, McCaw Foundation Library
  • Lisa Sainsbury Library, Sainsbury Institute
  • SOAS University of London Library
  • University of Virginia Library
  • Institute of Art History, Vienna University
2022/2023
  • Freie Universitaet Berlin
  • Heidelberg University East Asian Library
  • Museum Rietberg
  • Royal Ontario Museum Library
2021/2022
  • Smithsonian Institution Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum, McCaw Foundation Library
  • Institute of Art History, Vienna Univeristy
2020/2021
  • Freie Universitaet Berlin
  • CATS Library/East Asian Department, Heidelberg University
  • Lisa Sainsbury Library, Sainsbury Institute
  • SOAS University of London Library
2019/2020
  • Museum Rietberg
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum, McCaw Foundation Library
  • Institute of Art History, Vienna University
2018/2019
  • Freer Gallery of Art | Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library
  • Freie Universität Berlin Library
  • Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
  • University of London School of Oriental and Africean Studies (SOAS)
  • Troy H. Middleton Library, Louisiana State University
  • University of Virginia Library
2017/2018
  • Heidelberg University East Asian Library
  • Museum Reitberg
  • Newark Museum Library and Archives
  • Royal Ontario Museum, H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum
  • University of British Columbia Asian Library
2016/2017
  • Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library
  • Freie Universität Berlin
  • Bodleian Japanese Library, University of Oxford
  • The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
  • University of Virginia Library
2015/2016
  • Alfred University, Scholes Library of Ceramics
  • University of Heidelberg, East Asian Library
  • Royal Ontario Museum, H. H. Mu Far Eastern Library
  • Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Lisa Sainsbury Library
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum, McCaw Foundation Library
  • University of London, Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

2011/2012

  • Freer|Sackler Galleries
  • University of Heidelberg
  • Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
  • University of Washington
2010/2011
  • Freie Universitat Berlin
  • School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
  • University of Kansas Libraries
2009/2010
  • Columbia University
  • Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
  • Louisiana State University Libraries
  • H.H. Mu Far Eastern Library-Royal Ontario Museum
  • University of Heidelberg
 

 

 

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