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Recent Grants

Doctoral Grants
2025/2026
  • Mariko Azuma, Duke University -- "Leisure’s Luxurious Logic: The Visual Culture of Western-style Hotels in Modern Japan"
  • Yixu Chen, Princeton University -- "Ink Rubbings and Objecthood: A Medium in Transition and the Shaping of Modern Chinese Art"
  • Leslie Huang, University of California, Santa Barbara -- "Twinned Streams: secular and spiritual affordances in the landscape paintings of Cheng Zhengkui (1606–1676) and Kuncan (1612–c.1673)"
  • Yan Jin, University of Chicago -- "Power Play: Objects and Intermedial Experiments at Emperor Yongzheng’s Court, 1723–1735"
  • Chi-Lynn Lin, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- "Mounting Clouds: Ornamental Textlies in Religious Practices of the Qing Empire"
  • Zhoulun Xie, Princeton University -- "The Sino-Japan Art Sphere of the Seventeenth Century: Chinese Ōbaku Monks and Their Cultural Production"
  • Hae Jeong Yoon, University of Kansas -- "Intersecting Ecocritical Perspectives and Technologies: Construction, Labor, and Nature in Eighteenth-Century Korean Royal Court Documentary Painting"
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, University of California, 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
  • Kit 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 Kōrin (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, University of California, 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
2025/2026
  • Jens Bartel, Heidelberg University, Institute of East Asian Art History -- "The “Chinese Orthodoxy” of Maruyama Ōkyo’s Landscape Paintings: A Previously Unpublished Set of Four Small Sliding Doors"
  • Amaury A. García Rodríguez, Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México -- Selling and Collecting Japanese Art in Latin America
  • JaWon Lee, California State University, East Bay -- "Crossroads of Collection: Korean Art Beyond Borders, 1876–1945"
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 for "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
2025/2026
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art -- exhibition catalogue: "Ten Kings of Hell and the Afterlife in Medieval Korea, co-edited by Sooa Im McCormick and Yukio Lippit"
  • The Kress Foundation -- symposium: "Expanding Perspectives: Nihonga in Contemporary Practice, History, and Beyond"
  • Portland Art Museum -- symposium: "Yoshida Chizuko Exhibition Symposium"
  • University of Hawaii Press -- publication: "Shogun Avatar: Worship of Tokugawa Ieyasu at Nikkō and throughout Japan, 1616–1868 (working title)" by Timon Screech
  • University of Washington Press -- publication: "The Local Exotic: Fabricating Foreign Taste in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Decorative Arts" by Kristina Kleutghen
 
2024/2025
  • University of Hawaii Press -- publication: "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: "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: "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: "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: "The Golden Key: Modern Women Artists and Gender Negotiations in Republican China (1911-1949)"
  • University of Hawaii Press -- publication: "Picturing the Floating WOrld: Ukiyo-e in Context" by Julie Davis
  • University of Washington Press -- publication: "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: "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 -- exhibition catalogue: "Yasumasa Morimura: Who is 'I'?"
  • Portland Art Museum -- symposium: "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 -- symposium: "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: "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 -- 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: Obtaining Images: Art: Production and Display in Edo Japan, by Timon Screech
  • Reaktion Books -- publication: A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture, by Wu Hung
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art -- publication: 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 -- support for public programming to coincide with the exhibition “Delightful Pursuits: Japanese Art from the Clark Center”
  • University of Hong Kong -- publication: “Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives”
 
2009/2010
  • Reaktion Books -- publication: “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
2025/2026
  • Cambridge University Library
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum, McCaw Foundation Library
  • Lisa Sainsbury Library, Sainsbury Institute
  • University of Kansas Libraries
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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