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Yan Sun

Professor (Art and Art History)
Art and Art History
Phone
Campus Box

2452

Address
Schmucker Hall
Room 111

Yan Sun received her bachelor’s degree from the Department of Archaeology at the Peking University (1994) in Beijing, China and a doctoral degree on Chinese Art History from the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh (2001). Her research primarily focuses on the rise of regional bronze cultures in north China and the interplay between material culture, social identities and power during the late Shang and Western Zhou period (late 2nd millennium-late 8th c. BCE). She teaches courses on Art History Methods and Exhibition Curation, Material Culture Studies, Asian Art, Arts of China and Early Chinese Art and Culture.

List of Publications: https://gettysburg.academia.edu/YSun

 

Education

BA, Peking University, 1994MA, University of Pittsburgh, 1997PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2001