Art History Student, Rose Kuo, Publishes Paper on eScholarship

Rose Kuo, a History major and Art History minor with a focus on East Asia, recently had her paper, “Empire in a Shrine,” published on eScholarship. After taking many Art History classes with Professor Aurelia Campbell, Rose developed a strong interest in the material culture of Asian religions. When reading works of art and architecture, she pays special attention to the intersection of space, objects, and historical memories. She has incorporated these concepts in her own research of Shinto shrines in Taiwan ˗ where she hails from - that were built during the Japanese colonial period (1895-1945), looking at how imperial authority was reflected in these structures. 

Building upon this paper and her academic interests, Rose is completing a Scholar of the College Thesis project in History, using her art-historical training to address the reconfiguring of Shinto shrines into Chinese loyal martyr shrines, and the different ways in which the Chinese authorities and Taiwanese people have grappled with colonial legacies. She hopes to advance this interdisciplinary approach to her future study at Columbia University’s Master’s program in Religion this coming fall. 

Rose has been pursuing the Art History department's Museum Studies track. She was a recipient of the WorkArt Kunstverein Fellowship in 2018, where she interned at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany.

Her paper may be viewed on eScholarship at http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108733.