Mary Elizabeth Berry, Department of History, UC Berkeley
Author of Hideyoshi, The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto, and Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period. She is completing a book on the economic culture of seventeenth-century Japan. A former president of the Association for Asia Studies, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Julie Nelson Davis, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Teaches modern East Asian art from 1600 to the present. She specializes on the topic of ukiyo-e, the “pictures of the floating world,” and is the author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (Reaktion and Hawai’i, 2007), Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market (Hawai’i, 2015), and numerous articles and essays. During the academic year 2016-17 Davis is a Senior Research Fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian, and co-curator of “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” opening at the Sackler next spring.
Matthew McKelway, Department of Art History, Columbia University
Specializes in the history of late medieval and early modern Japanese painting. His research on urban representation in rakuchū rakugai zu (screen paintings of Kyoto) has led more broadly to interests in the development of early modern genre painting in depictions of famous places, the early kabuki theater, and recently Nanban screens. His other studies of Kano school fan paintings, individualist painters in 18th-century Kyoto, Rimpa painting, and an ongoing study of the painter Nagasawa Rosetsu have explored questions of workshop practices, the materiality and techniques of painting, Sinophilia, and Zen in early modern Japanese art.
Timon Screech, Department of the History of Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Has also taught at numerous universities including Chicago, Heidelberg, Meiji, and Waseda, and this semester is a Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley. He is an expert on the art and culture of the Edo Period, including its international dimension, and has published some dozen books on the subject.
Kären Wigen, Department of History, Stanford University
The Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University, and co-author, with Martin Lewis, of The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997), her most recent books are A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 (2010), and, as co-editor, Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps (2016).
Marcia Yonemoto, Department of HIstory, University of Colorado
Director of the Graduate Teacher Program and author of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2016) and Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) (University of California Press, 2003). Her current research project is a history of adoption in Japan from 1600-present.
Author of Hideyoshi, The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto, and Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period. She is completing a book on the economic culture of seventeenth-century Japan. A former president of the Association for Asia Studies, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Julie Nelson Davis, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Teaches modern East Asian art from 1600 to the present. She specializes on the topic of ukiyo-e, the “pictures of the floating world,” and is the author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (Reaktion and Hawai’i, 2007), Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market (Hawai’i, 2015), and numerous articles and essays. During the academic year 2016-17 Davis is a Senior Research Fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian, and co-curator of “Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered” opening at the Sackler next spring.
Matthew McKelway, Department of Art History, Columbia University
Specializes in the history of late medieval and early modern Japanese painting. His research on urban representation in rakuchū rakugai zu (screen paintings of Kyoto) has led more broadly to interests in the development of early modern genre painting in depictions of famous places, the early kabuki theater, and recently Nanban screens. His other studies of Kano school fan paintings, individualist painters in 18th-century Kyoto, Rimpa painting, and an ongoing study of the painter Nagasawa Rosetsu have explored questions of workshop practices, the materiality and techniques of painting, Sinophilia, and Zen in early modern Japanese art.
Timon Screech, Department of the History of Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Has also taught at numerous universities including Chicago, Heidelberg, Meiji, and Waseda, and this semester is a Visiting Researcher at UC Berkeley. He is an expert on the art and culture of the Edo Period, including its international dimension, and has published some dozen books on the subject.
Kären Wigen, Department of History, Stanford University
The Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University, and co-author, with Martin Lewis, of The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography (1997), her most recent books are A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 (2010), and, as co-editor, Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps (2016).
Marcia Yonemoto, Department of HIstory, University of Colorado
Director of the Graduate Teacher Program and author of The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2016) and Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) (University of California Press, 2003). Her current research project is a history of adoption in Japan from 1600-present.