Shih-shan Susan Huang’s Profile

Education

2002 Ph.D.
1995 M.A.
1991 B.A.
Yale University
National Taiwan University
National Taiwan University
History of Art
Graduate Institute of Art History
Foreign Languages and Literature
Ph.D. Dissertation: “The Triptych of Taoist Deities of Heaven, Earth, and Water and the Making of Visual Culture in the Southern Song China (1127-1279)” (Blanshard Prize)
Master Thesis: “The Murals of the Daoist Temple Yonglegong and the Workshop Practice in Southern Shanxi in the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)” (in Chinese)
Awards & Fellowships

External
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars, 2016 (2017-18 residential fellow at the Huntington Library)
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCK), Scholar Grant, 2014-15
Asian Cultural Council (ACC), travel fellowship, 2014
James P. Geiss Foundation (JPGF), Geiss Subvention Awards, December 2011
College Art Association (CAA), the Millard Meiss Publication Fund, Spring 2011
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCK), Publication Subsidies, 2011
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange (CCK), Junior Scholar Award, 2008-09
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, 2002-2004 (declined, 2003-04)
Internal
Rice University:
Humanities Research Center, Spatial Humanities fellowship, 2018-2019
Humanities Research Center, Teaching release fellowship, 2014
ADVANCE departmental grant, Rice University, Spring 2011 (the grant is for a female senior scholar’s visit to Rice to present a public lecture, attend a luncheon to meet with art history Ph.D. students and junior faculty to give career advices, and serve as my mentor)
Presidential Award, Rice University, 2006-2012
University of Washington, Seattle:
Royal Research Fund (RRF) & RRF Scholar Award, University of Washington, January 2006
Fritz Faculty Research Grant, the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Summer 2004 & 2005
Cheney and Mary Cowles Professorship of Chinese Art, University of Washington, 2003-06
Yale University:
Blanshard Prize, Yale University, awarded for the outstanding dissertation submitted to the History of Art in the year of 2001-2002, May 2002
Professional Presentations

Invited Talks
Conferences
Academic Positions and Employment

Rice University, 2006-present
Associate Professor, Rice University, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, 2020 July-present
Associate Professor, Rice University, Department of Art History, 2013-2020
Assistant Professor of Asian Art, Rice University, Department of Art History, 2006-2013
Affiliated faculty of Asian Studies Program, Rice University, 2006-present
Affiliated faculty of Medieval Studies Program, Rice University, 2007-present
University of Washington, Seattle, 2003-06
Assistant Professor of Chinese Art, University of Washington, School of Art, Division of Art History, 2003-2006
Affiliated faculty of China Program, University of Washington, 2003-2006
Affiliated faculty of the Comparative Religions Program, University of Washington, 2003-2006
Columbia University, 2002-03
Lecturer and Mellon Post-doc Fellow, Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, “Art in China, Japan, and Korea,” 2002-2003
Yale University
Teaching Assistant, Yale University, Department of History, “Traditional China” (Valerie Hansen), Fall 1998
Teaching Assistant, Yale University, Department of the History of Art, “Great Masters of Chinese Painting” (Richard Barnhart), Spring 1998 Teaching Assistant, Yale University, Department of the History of Art, “Foundation of Chinese Art” (Richard Barnhart), Fall 1997