Professor of the History of Art, Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College
I serve as Consulting Curator for Japanese Art at the Smith College Museum of Art where I have curated exhibitions on the arts of the Japanese tea ceremony and on contemporary Japanese art. In addition, I have organized exhibitions on Kitagawa Utamaro for the Mead Art Museum (2006), on the art of Allen Say at the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (2007), and on Japanese Buddhist art and ritual for the Katonah Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1996-1997). For six years I was chairman of the Board of Directors for the Clark Center for Japanese Art in Hanford, California. I have been a visiting researcher at the Tokyo National Research Institute of Culture Properties and a visiting professor at Yale University.