معرفی
Petya Andreeva is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vassar College since 2024, specializing in premodern East and Central Asian art with a focus on cross-cultural exchange along the Silk Road and Eurasian Steppe. She holds a BA in East Asian Studies from Colby College (2008) and a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania (2018). Her interdisciplinary research integrates art history, social anthropology, and environmental humanities.
Research Interests:
- Pre-modern nomadic art and material culture
- Cross-border artistic exchanges in Eurasia
- Zoomorphic imagery in ancient pastoral societies
- Mongol Empire visual culture
- Sedentary-nomadic artistic dialogues
Grants & Awards:
- UNESCO Silk Road Research Grant
- Getty-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship
- ICAS Dissertation Accolade
Lectures: Invited talks at Princeton IAS, University of Cambridge, Yale, Indiana University, Heidelberg, and the American Center for Mongolian Studies. Works with sources in Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Bulgarian, and Mongolian.
Publications: Author of Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea (2024) and editor of The Zoomorphic Arts of Ancient Central Eurasia (2023). Scholarly articles in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Early China, Archaeological Research in Asia, and Fashion Theory.
