About

Education

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

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