Logan Ward

Logan Ward (He/They) comes to KU from Ohio with a background in art museums and Korean studies. They worked at the Columbus Museum of Art and are an editor for the online journal of the Coalition of the Master’s Scholars on Material Culture. He wrote his first M.A. thesis on the early 20th-century interpretation of Korean material culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Ward is currently interested in art in/from both North and South Korea from the 20th century to the present, particularly at the intersections of art and postcolonial and queer politics and identity. They are also interested in pedagogy, curriculum development, and course design in art history and visual culture studies.

Fields of Study

Art and visual culture in/from Korea, 20th century to the present

US American art museum history

Postcolonial and queer theory

Courses Taught:

HA365(391): K-Pop and the Arts (created); HA363: Modern Korean Art and Culture; HA166: Visual Arts of East Asia

Publications:

Ward, Logan. “Museum Orientalism: East versus West in US American Museum Administration and Space, 1870-1910.” The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, October 7, 2021. https://cmsmc.org/publications/museum-orientalism-2.

Ward, Logan. “Colonial Connections: Interpreting and Representing Korea through Art and Material Culture at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1914 – 1945).” Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu161816049503051.

Kletchka, Dana Carlisle, Adéwálé Adénlé, Anna Freeman, Damarius Johnson, Shannon Thacker, Megan Wanttie, and Logan Ward. “Imagining the Not-Museum: Power, Pleasure, and Radical Museological Community.” Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education 37, (2020): 56-74. https://ussea2020.wixsite.com/jcrae/vol-37.

American Alliance of Museums. Gender Transition and Transgender Inclusion in the Museum Workplace: A Toolkit for Trans Individuals, Institutions, and Coworkers. 2019. https://www.aam-us.org/professional-networks/lgbtq-alliance/resources/.