China’s Periphery and Beyond: Perspectives from Art and Archaeology
Speakers (alphabetically)
Francis Allard (PhD), Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Francis Allard’s research focuses on the prehistory and early historic periods of East Asia, especially southern China. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork in China, Vietnam and Mongolia, and is interested in a range of issues, including the emergence of complex societies, memory and ritual, and the archaeology of mobile societies. He is presently co-editing (with Sun Yan and Gideon Shelach) a volume on object biographies in China, and is also working on a book manuscript on the archaeology of the Han dynasty’s southern border regions. He recently initiated an archaeological project in Fujian Province.
Shalmit Bejarano (PhD), Japan Foundation Fellow, Kanagawa University (Yokohama)
Shalmit Bejarano holds two MA degrees, one from the art history department of Doshisha University (Japan), and the other from the East Asian department in the Hebrew University (Jerusalem). Her PhD dissertation examined the appropriation of Chinese agrarian images in premodern Japanese paintings. During the 2010-11 academic year, she will be a Japan Foundation fellow at Kanagawa University in Japan. Her research focuses on early modern Japanese art, particularly questions of appropriation and representation of socially charged notions.
TzeHuey CHIOU-PENG (PhD), Research Associate, Department of Anthropology; Curator of Special Exhibits and Research, Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
TzeHuey Chiou-Peng received her PhD in art history from University of Pittsburgh. Her research topics pertain to art, culture, and technology in ancient East Asia, with a focus on prehistoric interactions between Southwest China and surrounding regions.
Mrea Csorba (PhD), Adjunct Art History Professor, History Department, Duquesne University; Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Mrea Csorba obtained her MA (1987) and PhD (1997) from the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Both her thesis and dissertation focused on non-dynastic artifacts found along China’s Northern Zone in the 1st millennium BCE. Her research interests include the study of animal style art in Northern Chinese and Central Asian steppe culture, and its extension into the grassland region of Central Europe, where a smattering of mid 1st millennium BCE metalwork displays well-recognized steppe motifs and characteristic design features.
HAN Jiayao (PhD Candidate), Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Jiayao Han’s PhD research focuses on the emergence and adoption of new visual forms presented in mortuary settings of the Northern Frontier in ancient China. These visual elements change in response to the appearance of new social environments during periods of civil unrest, conflict and cooperation among different ethnic states. As such, they act as ethnic reference points and outlets of both individual and institutional agency.
Jean-Luc Houle (PhD), Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St.Louis; Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Jean-Luc Houle earned his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. He received his MSc in Anthropology from the University of Montreal (Canada), during which time he researched the development of societal complexity in northern China. Since 2001, Jean-Luc has been involved in research in Mongolia. As senior co-PI of the Khanuy Valley Archaeology Project since 2006, he is currently conducting multidisciplinary field research in the Khanuy Valley region of north-central Mongolia, where he is studying the development of societal complexity among early mobile pastoralists of the Late Bronze and Iron Ages.
HUANG Tsuimei (PhD), Professor, Art History Department; Dean, College of Letters and Cultural Heritage, Tainan National University of the Arts (Taiwan)
Tsuimei Huang obtained her PhD in 1992 from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on ancient Chinese art and archaeology, especially the succession and transformation of jade objects and their changing roles from the Neolithic Period to the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.
JIANG Yu (PhD), Assistant Professor, MA in Museum Studies Program, Southern University at New Orleans
Yu Jiang received his BA in Chinese archaeology from Beijing University in 1997, and an MA (1999) and PhD (2004) in art history from the University of Pittsburgh. Between 2002 and 2005, he held a number of fellowship positions at the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.). From 2005 to 2010, he taught art history in the Wilkes Honors College at Florida Atlantic University.
Sheri A. Lullo (PhD), Luce Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Art and Art History Department, Dickinson College; Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Department, Union College
Sheri Lullo received her MA (2003) and PhD (2009) under the direction of Professor Linduff in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research on the art and archaeology of the Han Dynasty in China integrates various perspectives, including gender studies, material culture and mortuary analysis, and ritual practices.
Yuki Morishima (PhD Candidate), Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Yuki has earned Masters degrees from both Boston University and the University of Pittsburgh. Her current research focuses on the political and ritual usages of imperial portraits in East Asia. During the 2010-11 academic year, she will be a Japan Foundation Fellow at The University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute.
Penny M. Rode (PhD), Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Penny Rode received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1999. Her area specialty is the archaeological cultures of Southwest China. Most recently, her research interests have included gender issues as informed by material culture in these areas, emphasizing chronological change in the last centuries BCE. She has presented papers on these topics at international venues, and has published articles in both English and Chinese.
Gideon Shelach (PhD), Louis Freiberg Professor of East Asian Studies; Director, Freiberg Center for East Asian Studies; Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University (Jerusalem)
Gideon Shelach earned his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh in 1996. Since 1994, he has directed and conducted fieldwork projects in the Chifeng area of northeast China. His recent book, Prehistoric Societies on the Northern Frontiers of China: Archaeological Perspectives on Identity Formation and Economic Change during the First Millennium BCE,is published by Equinox. His academic papers address the archaeology of northeast China from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age, as well as other topics of relevance to Chinese archaeology, such as the formation of the Qin state in Northwest China.
SUN Yan (PhD), Associate Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Visual Arts, Gettysburg College
Yan Sun received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. Her research focuses on art, ritual and identities of north China’s regional bronze cultures as well as their interactions with the Shang and Zhou courts. She has co-edited two bilingual (English and Chinese) catalogues on Chinese bronzes Shang Bronzes from Hanzhong and Bronzes from Northern Shaanxi (with Cao Wei), and a research volume titled Gender and Chinese Archaeology (with Katheryn Linduff). She has also published a number of articles on Shang and Zhou bronze cultures and gender studies.
TENG Mingyu (PhD), Professor, Research Center of Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University (Changchun, China)
Mingyu Teng earned her PhD in 2001 from the Department of Archaeology at Jilin University. Her academic papers address the formation and development of the state of Qin in northwest China, as well as other topics of relevance to the archaeology of northeast China, including the application of GIS to the study of that region. Her recent book, Exploration and the Application of GIS in Environmental Archaeological Investigations of the Chifeng Region, is published by Science Press.
Leslie Wallace (PhD), Research Associate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh
Leslie Wallace recently obtained her PhD from the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on decorated Eastern Han Dynasty tombs from the provinces of Shaanxi and Shanxi.
WANG Ying (PhD), Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ying Wang received her PhD (on the art of the Shang Dynasty, Bronze Age China) from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. She was a member of the editorial team of The Great Treasures of Chinese Bronze Art (Wenwu Press); edited a volume titled Bronze Age China, Style and Material (Cambridge Scholars Publisher); and is the author of Connoisseurship of Ancient Chinese Painting (Lijiang Press). Her recent research focuses on the art and salt culture, as well as trading roads.
Mandy Jui-man WU (PhD), Research Associate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh; An Wang Post-doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center, Harvard University (2011-2012)
Mandy Jui-man Wu received her PhD in 2010 from the Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh. Her academic interests include the relationship between mortuary art, identity, and ritual on China’s Northern Frontier from the 4th to 6th centuries. Her research focuses on newly excavated materials from several tombs dated to the Northern Zhou period and examines how different social actors of each ethnic group displayed their identities, interacted with each other, and legitimized their power at both state and local levels.
WU Xiaolong (PhD), Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Hanover College
Xiaolong Wu earned his PhD in 2004 from the department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests focus on the art and archaeology of China and he has published several articles on the State of Zhongshan of the Warring States Period, as well as on the Northern Frontier of China. He is presently completing a book manuscript titled Visualization of Political Power in Ancient China: The Mysterious State of Zhongshan in Archaeology and Historical Memory.
YANG Jianhua (PhD), Professor, Department of Archaeology; Research Center of Chinese Frontier Archaeology, Jilin University (Changchun, China)
Jianhua Yang earned her PhD in 2001 from the Department of Archaeology at Jilin University. Her academic papers address the archaeology of northeast China and the Eurasian steppes from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. Her recent books include The Formation of the Northern Chinese Frontier Belt during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (Cultural Relics Press) and The Shanxi-Shaanxi Plateau and Yan mountain Range during the Second Millennium BCE (Science Press).
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Center, School of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Provost, Confucius Institute, Department of Anthropology, China Council, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Korean Endowment, Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi Endowments at the University of Pittsburgh.
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