Cynthea J. Bogel

Beinecke Fellow

01/29/2024–06/10/2024

Cynthea J. Bogel was professor of Japanese art and Buddhist visual culture in East Asia at Kyushu University (Japan) from 2012–2023 and associate professor at the University of Washington from 1999–2012 . She was director of the International Research Center for the Humanities at Kyushu University and founded the peer-reviewed Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University, serving as its chief editor until 2023. Her work includes the monograph With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision, a co-authored book on Hiroshige’s ukiyoe, articles on ancient and contemporary Japanese art, curation and catalogues for museums including RISD and the University of Oregon, and a documentary film produced with Nguyen Thi Hien on mortuary talisman robes and rites in northern Vietnam. At the Clark she will continue writing a book on cosmologies and Buddhist icons in ancient Japan.