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Gennifer Weisenfeld is the Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies (Trinity College of Arts & Sciences) and core faculty status in the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute. Her research focuses on modern Japanese art, design, and visual culture, particularly the intersection of sociopolitical change, empire-building, and disaster representation.
Education: PhD (Princeton University, 1997), MA (Princeton, 1992), BA (Wesleyan University, 1987)
Her work examines topics including Japanese modernism, commercial art’s role in nation-building, and the visual culture of disasters like the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake. Awards include Duke’s Distinguished Professorship (2023) and the Thomas Langford Lectureship (2005).
Publications include Gas Mask Nation (2023), Imaging Disaster (2012), and Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde (2002). She teaches courses on Japanese art history, visual culture, and interdisciplinary humanities methods.
