Meghen琼斯

——哈拉肯尼亚

教育

• 艺术史博士 & Architecture, Boston University
• MA, Ceramics 工艺 Design, Musashino Art University
• BA, Japanese Studies and Fine 艺术, Earlham College

传记

Meghen琼斯 is Associate Professor of 艺术历史 in the School of Art and Design. She teaches introductory courses on material culture and Buddhist arts; upper-level undergraduate courses on ceramics history, 设计历史, and East Asian visual and material culture; and the graduate seminar 历史 of Ceramic Art, 工艺, and Design: Global Flows. Her teaching emphasizes the direct study of objects, and she has led student programs to museums and collections in the US, 加拿大, 和日本.

Jones graduated in 1993 with a dual major BA in Japanese Studies and Fine 艺术 from Earlham College in Indiana, followed by further language training at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies and completion of an MA in Ceramic 工艺 Design at Musashino Art University, 东京(1997). After a period of creating and teaching ceramics, working for private collectors, directing a university art gallery, and instructing art history courses, she earned an MA and PhD in Art and Architectural 历史 from Boston University (2014), conducting her dissertation research at the 工艺s Gallery of the National Museum of Modern Art, 东京. 在阿尔弗雷德之前, she was Teaching Fellow in Japanese Studies at Earlham College (2011–2013), and a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese 艺术 and 文化 in Norwich, U.K. (2013–2014).

她的研究, for which she received the 教师 Scholar Award in 2022 and 2023, focuses on Japanese art and design 1868 to today; global flows of ceramic art and design; modernisms; and craft theory. She is particularly interested in modern ceramics and issues of culture identity, 权力, cultural appropriation, and US-Japan relations after World War II. Recent peer-reviewed publications include the article "Mingei" in Oxford Bibliographies in Art 历史; “Kitaōji Rosanjin in New York, 1954” in 印象; the chapter “National Treasure Tea Bowls as Cultural Icons in Modern Japan” in The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons (University of Amsterdam Press); and the book Ceramics and Modernity in Japan (Routledge), co-edited with Louise Allison Cort. Her current work in progress is editing the multi-author exhibition catalogue 《皇冠体育app》 to be published by the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum and documenting the exhibition there she curated. Her lectures on Japanese ceramics and related topics have been hosted by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum, and the University of Michigan, 等. Jones’s translations from Japanese to English have appeared in projects such the Google Cultural Institute’s 日本制造.

Grant and fellowship support for her research has been provided by the Japan Foundation, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese 艺术 & 文化, the Fulbright Foundation, 韩国国际交流财团, the Japanese Ministry of 教育, 和其他人.

Jones's administrative leadership experience includes serving as 艺术历史 division chair (8/2019-12/2020), Director of Global Studies (10/2018-12/2020), and co-chairing the Online 教师 Development Task Force (summer 2020). She is currently co-chairing the university-wide Middle States Commission on Higher 教育 Re-accreditation Self-Study. 

课程

• Introduction to 物质文化
• Buddhist 艺术 of Asia
• 历史 of Modern Design
• 日本艺术
• Ceramics in Japan and Beyond
• 东亚设计 & 物质文化
• Anime to Zen: Contemporary Japanese Visual & 物质文化
• Modern and Contemporary Ceramics
• 历史 of Ceramic Art, 工艺 and Design: Global Flows
• BS Thesis in 艺术历史 and Theory