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Visiting Research Fellows

JF-Nichibunken Fellowship

Daniel BORENGASSER
Specialized Field(s) East Asian Buddhist art, sculptural history, religious architecture
Current Research Themes The Hall of Thirty-Three Bays: Buddhist Sculpture, Architecture, and the Efficacy of Multiplicity in Medieval Japan
Keywords for Research Buddhist art / sculpture / multiplicity / conservation history

Education

2024 Ph.D., Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations / Specialized Field: East Asian Art History, School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University

Professional Experience

2021 Associate Fellow, Kyoto National Museum
2024 Visiting Professor (Japanese Art), Boston University
2025 Visiting Professor (East Asian Art), University of Massachusetts – Boston
2025 JF-Nichibunken Fellowship, International Research Center for Japanese Studies 

Degree(s)

2008 BFA, Washington University in St. Louis
2014 M.A., University of Oregon
2024 Ph.D., Harvard University

Achievements

Co-authored Books
  • ・ (解説文の著者) 阿部泰郎・阿部美香・近本謙介・レイチェル・サンダーズ・瀬谷愛・瀬谷貴之編, 『ハーバード美術館 南無仏太子像の研究』, 中央公論美術出版, 東京, 2023年
    ( (Section contributor.) Abe Yasurō and Abe Mika, et. al, ed., Hābādo Bijutsukan Namu Butsu Taishi zō no kenkyū (A Study of the Hidden Prayers Within Prince Shōtoku) , Chuō kōron bijutsu shuppan, Tokyo, 2023 )
  • ・ (Catalogue entry author) Rachel Saunders, ed. , Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2021
  • ・ (Catalogue entry author) John T. Carpenter and Melissa McCormick, ed., The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019
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