Ph.D. Student in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, Sep 2023 – now
Major field advisor: Bronwen Wilson; Minor field advisor: Hui-shu Lee
Dissertation working title: “Diplomacy Diplomacy and Its After-images: Ambassadorial Accounts and the Representations of Sino-European Encounter, ca. 1644-1800.”
Research interests: the intersection of early modern globalization and the visual and material culture of the Qing court; the Jesuit intervention in the histories of astronomy and the transmission of knowledge and technologies between EurAsian courts; the consumption of gemstones and natural materials and the environmental history of the Qing dynasty; transcultural material histories and the geopolitics of the Qing empire.
MA in Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, Sep 2021 – June 2023
Committee: Bronwen Wilson (Chair), Hui-shu Lee, Miwon Kwon
B.A. in History of Art, First Class Honours, University College London, 2018-2021
Thesis: “Globular Visions: Re-interpreting the Portrait of Qianlong Emperor in Court Robe (1736) through the ‘Court Beads’” Advisor: Alison Wright”
Teaching Experience at UCLA
ART HIS 31: South and Southeast Asian Art, Spring Quarter, 2024, Teaching Assistant.
ART HIS 20: Ancient Art, Winter Quarter, 2023-24, Teaching Assistant.
ART HIS 25: Museum Studies, Fall Quarter, 2023, Teaching Assistant.
ART HIS 31: South and Southeast Asian Art, Spring Quarter, 2023, Teaching Assistant.
ART HIS 21: Medieval Art, Winter Quarter, 2022-23, Teaching Assistant.
ART HIS 29: Chinese Art, Fall Quarter, 2022, Teaching Assistant.
Sylvia Tongyan Qiu 