Ankeney Weitz

Ankeney Weitz is the Ziskind Professor of East Asian Studies and Art and currently serves as the Chair of the East Asian Studies Department at Colby College. She holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Kansas, along with an M.A. and a B.A. in Asian Studies from Cornell University.

Education:

• B.A. in Asian Studies, Cornell University
• M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History, University of Kansas

Research interests focus on Chinese art history, the social history of art collecting, the rhetoric of visual language in Chinese painting, and the work of Sino-French painter Zao Wou-ki. She teaches courses such as Foundations in East Asian Studies, Survey of East Asian Art (to 1300), and Zen and the Arts in Asia.

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