Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies , A&S German Studies
728F Old Chemistry Building
513-556-0265
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, 2001 (Japanese art history)
Master of Arts, International Christian University Graduate School Tokyo, Japan , 1993 (Japanese Art History)
Bachelor of Arts, International Christian University Tokyo, Japan, 1991 (Japan Studies)
2014 -2015 Faculty Development Council, UC Collaborative $6,088 Type:Grant
2011 -2012 The Japan Foundation Short-Term Research $6,420 Type:Grant
2010 -2011 Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies Short-Term Travel Grant $3,000
2008 -2009 Grant for Advanced Research and Publication by Individual Scholars $3,000
2004 -2005 Northeast Asia Council Short-Term Travel Grant $2,000
2001 -2002 The Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Postdoctoral $35,000 Type:Fellowship
1997 Japan Iron and Steel Graduate $11,000 Type:Fellowship
1999 -2000 University of Pittsburgh Andrew Mellon Predoctoral $14,000 Type:Fellowship
1999 -2000 Metropolitan Center Grants for Dissertation Research in Far Eastern Art Studies $9,477 Type:Grant
1998 -1999 Mitsubishi Foundation Graduate $11,000 Type:Fellowship
2015 UC Third Century Research $8000 teaching stipend and $1624.41 research funds Type:Fellowship
2015 UC Third Century Materials $1624.41 research funds Type:Grant
2011 School of Art, UC Faculty Travel $500 Type:Grant
2014 School of Art Professional Development $300 Type:Grant
2015 School of Art Faculty Travel $410 Type:Grant
2014 Commission for Women, UC Commission for Women $500 Type:Grant
2015 Commission for Women, UC UC Commission for Women $500 Type:Grant
2013 Faculty Development Council, UC Department and Interdisciplinary (with Prof K. Bonansinga, SOA, and Prof. G. Ivanova, A&S) $6,088 Type:Grant
2011 Commission for Women, UC Commission for Women $500 Type:Grant
2010 Faculty Development Council, UC Faculty Development $3,183.57 Type:Grant
2010 Commission for Women, UC Commission for Women $500 Type:Grant
2008 Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Grant for Advanced Research and Publication by Individual Scholars ¥300,000, approx. $3,000 Type:Grant
2005 University Research Council, UC Summer Faculty Research $8,000 stipend, $3,815 research support Type:Fellowship
2004 Association for Asia Studies Northeast Asia Council Short-Term Travel $2,000 Type:Grant
1997 P. E. O. Sisterhood P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship Role:$5,000 Type:Grant
2008 Commission for Women, UC Commission for Women $500 Type:Grant
1997 Friends of Frick Fine Arts, University of Pittsburgh Department Travel $1,030 Type:Grant
2012 Faculty Development Council, UC Faculty Development $1,473.95 Type:Grant
1996 Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh Graduate Research Development $2,000 Type:Grant
2012 School of Art, UC Faculty Travel $500 Type:Grant
1995 Rotary Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship $21,500 Type:Grant
2013 Commission for Women, UC Commission for Women $500 Type:Grant
“Inner Beauty: Kishida Ryūsei (1891-1929)’t Theory of Realism.” Edited by Minh Ngyuen. Japanese Aesthetics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, forthcoming.
“‘Fictonalized Truth’: Realism as the Vehicle for War Painting (tentative title).” Edited by Asato Ikeda, Louisa McDonald, and Ming Tienpo. Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2012, 38-57.
“Japanese Art Criticism: The First Fifty Years.” Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2011, pp. 257-280.
“Modernité in Art”: Kojima Kikuo’s Critique of Contemporary Japanese Painting, 1931-1940.” Edited by Hiroshi Nara. Inexorable Modernity: Japan’s Grappling with Modernity in the Arts. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2007, pp. 49-68.
“’Elegance’ and ‘Discipline’: The Significance of Sino-Japanese Aesthetic Concepts in the Critical Terminology of Japanese Photography, 1903-1923,” Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama, eds. Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century. Leiden, Netherlands: Hotei Publishing, 2005, pp. 98-108.
“Between Beauty and Obscenity: The Problem of Cultural Discontinuity in Modern Japan,” Japan Studies Working Paper Series, No. 3 (December 1991), Tokyo: International Christian University (unpaginated, 65 pgs, sole entry in the volume, invited).
“Ishii Hakutei and the Hōsun journal (tentative title),” Shin hanga—Sōsaku hanga: A Dialogue in Art. Nihon no Hanga, Amsterdam, and Hotei Publishing, Leiden (forthcoming in 2016)
“From Art without Borders to Art for the Nation: Japanist (Nihonshugi) Painting by Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyōkai during the 1930s.” Monumenta Nipponica vol. 65 no. 2 (2011), pp. 357-395 (peer-reviewed).
“The Emperor’s New Clothes: Japanese Visuality and Imperial Portrait Photography,” History of Photography, vol. 33, no. 2 (May 2009): 165-184 (peer-reviewed).
“Ishii Hakutei and the Future of Japanese Painting,” Art Journal vol. 55 no. 3 (Fall 1996): 57-63 (peer-reviewed).
Bert Winther-Tamaki. Maximum Embodiment: Yoga, the Western Painting of Japan, 1912-1955 (University of Hawai'i Press, 2012). Monumenta Nipponica vol. 68 no. 1 (2013), pp. 357-395.
Dōshin Satō. Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty. CAA.reviews, September 2013
Anne Tucker, et. al. The History of Japanese Photography (New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2003). CAA.reviews, 2004.
Jonathan M. Reynolds, Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2001). School of Oriental and African Studies Bulletin, University of London, Vol. 66 (2003): 145-147.
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )“Emperor’s New Clothes" .Earlham College, Richmond, IN. Level:University
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )“Snow, Moon, and Flower: Aesthetics of Modern Japanese Prints” . University of Mary Washington Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA. Level:Local
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )docent training lecture on Japanese art collection, .Cincinnati Art Museum, Level:Local
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )“Emperor’s New Clothes: Imperial Portraits and Modern Japanese Visuality" .The Ohio State University, Level:Department
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )August 10, 2005: “Aesthetics of Japanese Festival Coats (gallery talk for Happi and Hanten Exhibition)” .Cincinnati Art Museum,
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )“The Japanese Woodblock Print Collection at the Ball State University Gallery” . Ball State University Gallery, Muncie, IN. Level:Local
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )Imperial Portrait Photography of Meiji Japan: 1873-1912” .Cincinnati Art Museum, Level:Local
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )“History of Meiji Painting,” course for a museum diploma in Asian art: The Classical and Decorative Arts of Japan and Korea" .British Museum, London, UK. Level:Local
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )“Painting’s Evil Twin (?): Illuminations on Early Japanese Photography,” Third Thursday Lecture Series, .Sainsbury Institute, Norwich, UK. Level:Local
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. ) Gallery talks for the exhibition, “Urban Metamorphosis: One Hundred Views of New Tokyo” .Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA. Level:Local
Mikiko Hirayama (10-2015. ) “New Wine in New Bottles: Japanese Imperial Portraits of the Meiji Period (1868-1912)” .Cincinnati, Ohio. Conference. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (10-2013. )Tsuda Seifū's Adaptation of Proletarian Art Theory in New Parliament (1931)" . East Lansing, MI. Conference. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (02-2011. )“Transcultural Visuality: Photography in East-Asia” .New York, NY. Professional Meeting. Level:International
Mikiko Hirayama (10-2010. ) “Location, Location, Location: Regionalism in Twentieth-Century East Asian Art” .The Ohio State University. Conference. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (06-2010. )“Was There Socialist Realism in Japan? Proletarian Art of the Interwar Years” .Tokyo, Japan. Conference. Level:International
Mikiko Hirayama (10-2009. ) “Between Light and Darkness: Ethnic Nationalism of Early Showa Oil Painting” .University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Workshop. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (discussant) (10-2009. )“From Feudalism to Universalism: Identity Conflicts in Japanese Culture” .Miami University, Oxford, OH. Conference. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (discussant) (03-2009. )“Continuity and Change in Meiji Visual Culture” .Chicago, IL. Conference. Level:International
Mikiko Hirayama (presenter and panel chair) (03-2007. )“Fauvists in the Land of Rising Sun: Critical Evaluations of Japanist (nihonshugi) Painting, 1934-35,” .Boston, MA. Conference. Level:International
Mikiko Hirayama (03-2005. )“The Material and the Spiritual Become One”: Reflections of National Identity in “Japanist” Painting, 1931-36, .Pittsburgh, PA . Conference. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (BAD DATE. )“The Material and the Spiritual Become One”: Reflections of National Identity in “Japanist” Painting, 1931-36, .Pittsburgh, PA . Conference. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (presenter and panel chair) (BAD DATE. )“In Pursuit of Photographic Vision: The Language of Japanese Pictorialist Photography, 1903-1923” .University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN . Conference. Level:Regional
Mikiko Hirayama (presenter and panel chair) (BAD DATE. )"’Elegance’ and ‘Discipline’: The Significance of Sino-Japanese Aesthetic Concepts in the Critical Terminology of Japanese Photography: 1903-1923” .Norwich School of Art, Norwich, UK. Workshop. Level:International
Japanese Studies Lecture Series: Religion, Art, and Gender (1) Lecture BAD DATE DAAP Level:University
Japanese Studies Lecture Series: Religion, Art, and Gender (2)Japanese Studies Lecture Series: Religion, Art, and Gender (2) Lecture BAD DATE Max Kade Center, Dept. of German Studies Level:University
Japanese Studies Lecture Series: The Arts of the GeishaJapanese Studies Lecture Series: The Arts of the Geisha Lecture BAD DATE DAAP Level:University
History of Photography Peer Review/Referee 2014
(External Tenure Reviewer )2014
Panel Chair, Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Level:Regional 2013
Israel Science Foundation Judge Type:Grant Panel Level:National 2013
Ars Orientalis Peer Review/Referee 2012
Tran-Asia Photography Review Peer Review/Referee 2011
Art Bulletin Peer Review/Referee 2009
External Reviewer for tenure Peer Review/Referee 2008
Panel organizer and chair, “Socialism, Nationhood, and Art: Images of Volk in Japan, 1930–1950” (Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, Japan )2010
Panel Chair, Association for Asian Studies Conference, Boston, MA 2007
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