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My dissertation considers several media made from clay that were produced in Etruria during the Archaic period. It looks at objects that incorporate faces as a primary motif to gauge how the addition of a face allows the object to participate in a range of activities as a spectator.

The image of Japanese culture as a hybrid of Western modernity and Japanese tradition circulates both inside and outside of Japan. Bullet trains and capsule hotels coexist with kabuki theatre, Shinto shrines, and ryokans in contemporary society (or so the clichéd narrative goes!). My research concerns two genres of music that challenge this trope: contemporary music written for traditional Japanese instruments and J-pop.

"I’m studying how entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley created a style of philanthropy that differed from the industrial tycoons of the past, such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, and the consequences of that type of giving for public institutions and civil society."

GSAS has a wonderfully diverse, intellectually charged student body. The academic environment and high level of discussion is as much a product of my professors’ leadership as it is my peers’ contributions.