Visiting Assistant Professor and R.E. Keiter ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow
Yael Rice (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia and Greater Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Between 2009-12, she held the position of Assistant Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in that capacity curated exhibitions of court portraits from South Asia, ragamala paintings, and works by Rabindranath Tagore and other seminal Bengali artists of the early twentieth century. She currently holds the post of Visiting Assistant Professor and Robert E. Keiter ’57 Postdoctoral Fellow, after which—in fall 2015—she will join the faculty as Assistant Professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilization. Rice is also the 2015-17 Editor of H-Islamart, a web list sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA), and serves on the board of the American Council of Southern Asian Art (ACSAA).
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Amherst College Student ’15
Chen Jiang is a senior at Amherst College, majoring in History of Art. Currently working as a curatorial research assistant for Professor Yael Rice, she has assisted with the research on Indian miniature paintings, drafted labels for the exhibition Gods, Kings, and Lovers, and developed its related online content. She is interested in contemporary East Asian contemporary art and has focused her senior thesis on contemporary Japanese photography, titled “Daughter of Art History: Three Case Studies of Morimura Yasumasa’s Female Impersonations.” She will pursue her master degree in History of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oxford after graduating from Amherst College.
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