William Ma
PhD in Art History
University of California, Berkeley
William Ma is an art historian of China specializing in the artistic exchanges between China and the world in the late-imperial and modern periods. His research interests include material culture, theories of ornament, colonial representations, Jesuit missionary art, Cantonese export art, and Qing court arts. Recently, he has been extending his research into Vietnam, examining the court arts of the Nguyen dynasty between Sinitic aspiration and French colonial imposition. He is the co-curator of a major upcoming exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art on the visual and material cultures of Chinatowns. After receiving his Ph.D. in art history at UC Berkeley in 2016, he has taught Asian art history at the University of San Francisco, Lewis and Clark College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Louisiana State University. Ma has also worked at the Peabody Essex Museum, Las Vegas Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum.
- PhD in Art History — University of California, Berkeley
- BA in Art History — University of California, Berkeley
- BA in Biology — University of California, Berkeley
- PhD in Art HistoryUniversity of California, Berkeley
- BA in Art HistoryUniversity of California, Berkeley
- BA in BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley
- Assistant Professor of Art History — Louisiana State University
- Assistant Professor of Art History — Lewis & Clark College
- Adjunct of Art History — University of San Francisco
- Adjunct of Art History — Virginia Commonwealth University
- Instructor of Art History — University of California, Berkeley
- Assistant Professor of Art HistoryLouisiana State University
- Assistant Professor of Art HistoryLewis & Clark College
- Adjunct of Art HistoryUniversity of San Francisco
- Adjunct of Art HistoryVirginia Commonwealth University
- Instructor of Art HistoryUniversity of California, Berkeley
