Vidhita Raina
- PhD Candidate
- Cross-cultural Interactions in Japanese Art, 16th-19th Centuries
- Material Culture of the Ming Dynasty, 14th-17th Centuries
- History of Asian American/Asian Diaspora Art
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Biography —
Vidhita Raina is a PhD student with a focus on early modern Japanese art. Her research interests center on cross-cultural transmissions, hybridity and materiality within Japanese visual culture, and cultural biographies of East Asian art. Her dissertation, “Fabricating Sarasa: Patterns of Global Exchange in Early Modern Japanese Textiles and Visual Culture,” is focused on representations of imported printed and painted cotton from India in popular visual culture like woodblock prints and manuals of Edo period (1615-1868) Japan.
Fields of Study
Cross-cultural Interactions in Japanese Art, 16th-19th Centuries
Material Culture of the Ming Dynasty, 14th-17th Centuries
History of Asian American/Asian Diaspora Art
Education —
M.A. in East Asian Art History, University of Kansas
M.A. in History of Art/Archaeology, SOAS University of London
B.A. in History, University of Delhi