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Peggy Wang serves as Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies and Chair of the Art History Department at Bowdoin College. Her academic affiliations span Art History, Asian Studies, and Chinese programs, with her office located in the Visual Arts Center.
Her educational foundation includes:
- PhD in Art History from the University of Chicago (2010)
- MA in Art History from the University of Chicago
- BA in Art History and Chinese Studies from Wellesley College
Professor Wang's research interrogates how cultural globalization shapes meaning-making and historical narratives in art, particularly through contemporary Chinese art. Her scholarship critically examines agency, inclusivity, and decolonizing methodologies in art history, bridging pre-modern and contemporary Asian art traditions.
Key research vectors include:
- Global art historiography
- Gender and resistance in Chinese women's art
- Temporal theory in contemporary practice
- Art market dynamics in 1990s China
- Curatorial interventions in East Asian art
- Animation and mythological reinterpretation
Her 2020-2025 publications reveal a concentrated focus on temporal disruption (evident in landscape and animation studies), material resistance in feminist art, and critical reassessments of Chinese conceptual art. She consistently analyzes artists like Lin Tianmiao and Qiu Anxiong to expose tensions between tradition and technology, while her reviews and interviews expand discourse on gender, globalization, and art market evolution.
Her distinguished recognition includes:
- Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty (2018)
- Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Researcher-in-Residence (2017)
- U.S. Fulbright Research Scholar in China (2017)
- Bowdoin Faculty Research Award (2017)
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (2003-2008)
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship (2006-2007)
Professor Wang has curated exhibitions including "Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists" (2013) and received major grants supporting her book "The Future History of Contemporary Chinese Art" (2021). Her Fulbright and Ho Foundation residencies enabled critical research in China and Hong Kong, while her Bowdoin awards sustained ongoing scholarly production.
As department chair and active symposium participant (CAA, AAS, Guggenheim), she shapes academic discourse through institutional leadership and international collaborations with venues like Mori Art Museum and Asia Art Archive.
