Professor Vimalin Rujivacharakul accepted the position in the Department of Art History in
May 2005, and has joined our faculty since January 2006. She received her Ph.D. in
architectural history from the University of California at Berkeley and also holds degrees in
architectural history and theory and architectural design from Harvard University and the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her interdisciplinary training incorporates cultural anthropology and intellectual history.
Her research and teaching interests cover modern architectural history; history and historiography of
East Asian art, architecture and archeology; Sino-European intellectual history; and cross-cultural
historiography of modernity and modern architecture. During 2001-2003 she conducted field research
in China where she was affiliated with the Institute of Modern Architectural History and Historic
Preservation at Tsinghua University and the School of Architecture at Tongji University.
She is a recipient of many major awards and fellowships. In 2006 she was a guest curator a
t the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, where she curated an exhibition
Shanghai Through a Century of Visual Images (Autumn, 2006). She was also the convener and
main organizer of the conference Collecting "China": Objects, Materiality and
Multicultural Collectors (2006), which was co-sponsored by the University of Delaware,
Winterthur Museum, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. For details,
visit http://www.udel.edu/ArtHistory/symposium.html
AWARDS and MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, The Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge, England, in residence 2008.
Visiting Fellowship, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, England, in residence 2008.
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The Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, Major Conference Grant, 2006. |
The Getty Pre-doctoral Residential Fellowship, The Getty Research Institute, 2004-2005, in residence 2004-2005.
Scott Opler Fellowship for Emerging Scholar, the Society for Architectural Historians, 2005. |
Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2004. |
University of California's Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley, 2004. |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS |
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The Rise of Chinese Architectural History: Cross-cultural Studies and the Making of Modern Knowledge, book manuscript (revision in progress).
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Collecting "China":Objects, Materiality, and Multicultural Collectors, edited volume; manuscript is currently under review at a press for publication. |
"Architects as Cultural Heroes," in Cities in Motion: Interior, Coast, and Diaspora in Transnational China ( China Research Monograph 62), Sherman Cochran and David Strand, eds. ( Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 2007). |
"Twentieth Century Architecture in Bangkok" and "Baiyok Tower" in Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Architecture (Chicago, London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 2004). |
| COURSES TAUGHT (since Spring 2006-present) |
ARTH 667: Writing Architecture: Historiography and Methodology (Spring 2007) |
ARTH 402-011: Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Architecture (Autumn 2007) |
| ARTH 402-010: Collecting "China": Objects, Materiality, and Multicultural Collectors, honors seminar offered in conjunction with the conference Collecting "China" (Fall 2006) |
| ARTH 367: Art, Architecture and Archeology in East Asia (Spring 2006) |
| ARTH 267: Art, Architecture, and Archeology in China (Spring 2007) |
| ARTH 233/267: Modernity and Modern Architecture: Intellectual History and Architectural Survey, 1750-1968 (Fall 2006) |
| ARTH 162: A Survey in Architectural History (Spring 2006) |
| ARTH 150: Monuments and Methods (Fall 2007) |
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