Julie Nelson Davis is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches the arts of East Asia from 1600 to the present. Davis received her B.A. from Reed College, studied in Japan as a Monbushō fellow at the Osaka University of Foreign Languages and at Gakushūin University, and completed her Ph.D at the University of Washington. Davis has held the Abe Yoshishige Fellowship at Gakushûin University and the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowship at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Her research has been further supported by the Weiler Family Dean’s Leave, the University Research Foundation, the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, the Penn Humanities Forum, and the Center for East Asian Studies, among others. Davis received the Trustees' Council of Penn Women's 25th Anniversary Award for Excellence in Advising in 2012.

Davis’s primary research concerns Ukiyo-e, the “images of the floating world,” and the arts of the Tokugawa period (1615-1868).  Her most recent book, Partners in Print: Artistic Networks and the Ukiyo-e Market, was published by the University of Hawai’i Press in January 2015. Previous publications include Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (Reaktion Books and the University of Hawai’i Press, 2007); a study of the influential ukiyo-e publisher, Tsutaya Jūzaburō in Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680 – 1860 (Asia Society, 2008), an analysis of a painting by Teisai Hokuba in the Japanese art history journal, Kokka (2007), an overview essay on Utamaro and his contemporaries in The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints (Hotei Books, 2005), among others.  She co-curated Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Theatre Prints from the Gilbert Luber Collection at the Arthur Ross Gallery in 2006.  She is delighted to have had the opportunity to work with talented students for the exhibition, “A Sense of Place: Modern Japanese Prints,”at the Arthur Ross Gallery in the spring of 2015.

Email: jndavis@sas.upenn.edu

Quintana Heathman is a PhD candidate in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Art History, advised by Dr. Julie Nelson Davis.  Her research focuses on the print culture of Edo-period Japan.  Quintana received a BA in Art History with a minor in Japanese Language and Literature from Boston University, and an MA in Art History, where she was a recipient of the Luce Foundation Fellowship, also from Boston University.  She was a two-year MEXT (Monbukagakushō) fellow at Gakushūin University, Tokyo under Dr. Kobayashi Tadashi.  Quintana has worked in Asian curatorial departments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  She is currently the Fellow in Japanese Art at the Harvard Art Museums.

Email: heathman@sas.upenn.edu

Jeannie Kenmotsu is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the art of early modern Japan, with particular emphasis on painting, prints, and illustrated books. She is the recipient of awards and support from the Japan Foundation, Blakemore Foundation, Japan Art History Workshop (日本美術史に関する国際大学院生会議), U.S. Department of Education, and University of Pennsylvania, and she currently holds a multiyear Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Scholars in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School, University of Virginia. After a prior career phase in contemporary art, she remains interested in artistic engagements with place, memory, and belonging up to the present moment. 

Email: kenmotsu@sas.upenn.edu

Shelley Langdale is the Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She worked at the Fogg Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Cleveland Museum of Art before coming to Philadelphia in 2002. She has organized a wide range of exhibitions including shows of Renaissance prints and drawings, American Folk Art on paper, Japanese prints, and contemporary prints and drawings.Her exhibitions in Philadelphia have included: Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints from the 1930s to Now (2003), Edvard Munch’s Mermaid (2005), Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian (responsible for the Museum’s presentation of this traveling show, 2009), Picturing the West: Yokohama Prints 1859-1870s (2010), and Full Spectrum: Prints from the Brandywine Workshop (2012).  She was also on the curatorial team that organized the international contemporary art festival, Philagrafika 2010, held throughout the city.

She has lectured and published on a variety of topics, from the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci to the video installations of the Japanese artist Tabaimo. She is the Vice President of the national organization, The Print Council of America, is on the board and serves as Chair of Program Committee at The Print Center in Philadelphia, and is an advisor to both The Brandywine Workshop and the Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia. She has also juried numerous exhibitions across the country. 

Email: slangdale@philamuseum.org

Lynn Hollen Lees is Professor of History Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught European History and World History for 35 years. She has also been a visiting faculty member at  University College London, the Catholic University of Leuven, and the University of Diponegoro  in Indonesia. Her special interest is in the history of cities. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment from the Humanities. Among her publications are The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1995, and The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws and the People, 1700-1998. She has also served as Vice Provost for Faculty. 

Email:  lhlees@history.upenn.edu 

Petya Andreeva is a second-year PhD student at the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania studying East Asian art and archeology. She received her BA from Colby College in 2013 where she majored in East Asian Studies. Her research interests revolve around the cultural exchange between China and Central Asia during the Mongol invasion, as well as Edo period material culture and Muromachi period landscape in Japan. She has worked at the University of Hong Kong Museum where she was involved in two large exhibition projects sponsored by the Consul General of Japan.

Email: andreeva@sas.upenn.edu

Haely Chang is a MA student at the University of Pennsylvania. Her area of focus is the late modern and contemporary art, specifically the culture and arts of diaspora and multiculturalism. She graduated from Hongik University, Korea in 2014 with BA in art history. 

Email: haeyc@sas.upenn.edu

Megan Czerwinski graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with an MA in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, focusing on modern Japan. In 2013 she received a BA from the University of Delaware, where she double majored with Honors in both East Asian Studies and Japanese Language and Literature. She will begin work in Japan as an English teacher with the JET Program in the fall of 2015.

Email: czerwinski.megan@gmail.com

Eileen graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics. Besides her major in Business, Eileen is tremendously interested in Art History, particularly in Japanese woodblock prints and Chinese architecture. While at Penn, Eileen was involved with Penn Art Appreciation Society, where she hosted a symposium on the beauty prints of Edo-period Japan, and Penn Chinese Theater, where she was cast in the Spring 2014 production of the Heist.  Eileen currently works at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong as an investment banking analyst in the healthcare sector.

Email: eileengao16@gmail.com

Kendra is a PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania where she specializes in late medieval and Northern Renaissance art. She completed her MA in Art History at the University of Texas at Austin in 2014 and her BA in Art History at the University of Chicago in 2011. Kendra typically analyzes figural works of art and explores issues of gender and sexuality. 

Email: grimmett@sas.upenn.edu

Yae-Jin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with a B.A. in History of Art. Some of the highlights from her time at Penn include working on the ICA’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition as a Curatorial Intern and exploring the intersection of art and Korean comfort women activism as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow of the Penn Humanities Forum. Most recently, she assisted the Curator of Permanent Collection at the Whitney Museum with the Collection Handbook that’s being published on the occasion of the new building opening in May 2015. She currently works at Nadine Johnson & Associates, a media strategy and brand consulting firm in New York. 

Email: hayae91@gmail.com

Hillary Halter graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with a major in History of Art and minor in Consumer Psychology. During her time at Penn she was a member of the student board at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) as well as the History of Art Undergraduate Advisory Board.  She assisted the programming department of ICA and also interned at The Barnes Foundation, working with former Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Collections Judith Dolkart.  Since graduating, Hillary has worked as a Gallery Assistant at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York.  

Email: halterh.heh@gmail.com

Drew Hasson is currently working with the Fulbright organization in Malaysia.  He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with a degree in East Asian Area Studies Honors.

Email: drewhasson@gmail.com

Katelyn is a PhD student in the History of Art Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She first became interested in Howard Hodgkin’s Indian View series in 2014 when she co-curated the exhibition Postwar British Prints at the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum and had the opportunity to experience the works firsthand. Printmaking across the ages intrigues Katelyn, though she primarily studies early modern European prints and print culture. She received her BA in the History of Art from the University of Virginia in 2009.

Email: hobbsk@sas.upenn.edu

Jenny Lu graduated with BA in 2014 from Allegheny College with major in art history. She studies Chinese art in department of East Asian Language and Civilization at University of Pennsylvania. For her MA thesis she focuses her study on the Four Masters in Ming dynasty. She plans to work in the field of connoisseurship and art investment in the future.

Email: luyang8@sas.upenn.edu

Travis graduated summa cum laude with Departmental Honors from the College of Arts and Sciences with a degree in History of Art in 2014. Advised by David Brownlee, he wrote his Senior Thesis on the sketchbooks and daybooks of the famed American architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. At Penn, he served on the Undergraduate Advisory Board for History of Art, worked in the Oceania Archives of Penn Museum and was a curatorial fellow at the Kislack Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. He is an internationally ranked competitive ice dancer and competed for Team USA.Currently, Travis is an Assistant Account Executive at GMMB, a strategic communications firm in Washington, DC. He is planning to open a gallery this summer.

Email: travismager@gmail.com

Daria Melnikova is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interest lies into Japanese modern and contemporary art, particularly performance. She received her MA in the East Asian Studies from New York University in 2014.

Email: damel@sas.upenn.edu

Anna is a PhD student in the History of Art Department at Bryn Mawr College. She earned her BA in German Literature and Studio Art from Reed College in 2002 and her MFA in Printmaking from PAFA in 2011, and her MA in the History of Art at Bryn Mawr in 2014. Her current research is focused on the artistic exchange between Vienna and Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. In her time at Bryn Mawr, she has been a teaching assistant for the Growth and Structure of Cities Department and served as a Research Assistant in Special Collections. She has also curated and co-curated several exhibitions including “Bridges That Stand When All Else Falls Away: TriCo, Japan, and Melted Roof Tiles from Hiroshima 1945,” BMC (2012); “Beneath the Printed Pattern: Display and Disguise in Ukiyo-e Bijinga” BMC (2013), and "Disasters and Rebuilding in Japan: Perspectives and Testimonies from the Tri-co Collection,” BMC (2013).

Email: amoblardme@brynmawr.edu

Olivia Pei graduated with BA in 2014 from Jinan University with major in film making and cinema study. She studies cross cultural communication and media in department of Liberal Art at University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in photographing and writing, and plans to film a documentary about uncovered history around the world in near future.

Email: ruoranp@sas.upenn.edu

Harrison Schley is a Ph.D. student in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.A. from the same department in 2014. Harrison’s research interests include 17th through 19th century Japanese crafts and tea utensils, and the relationship between Japanese and European crafts during this period.  In 2011, Harrison helped curate “A Taste for Tea in Japan” in the Japanese galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Email: hschley@sas.upenn.edu

Kimberly Schreiber is currently a senior majoring in Comparative Literature, with a concentration in Literary and Cultural Theory, and minoring in Art History and Chinese. Her interests are in photography, documentary, and representations of loss in contemporary Chinese aesthetics. She will be graduating in May 2015, and attending the Courtauld Institute of Art this fall to pursue an MA in the History of Art.

Email: kgschreiber@gmail.com 

Lin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2014 with a BA in International Relations and a Minor in History of Art. Her fondest memories of Penn include her internships with the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. More recently, she has worked for the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, and she currently works at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, an international law firm headquartered in the financial district of New York.  

Email: zhenglin@sas.upenn.edu