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Christina Hiromi Hobbs
Ph.D. Student in Art History, admitted Autumn 2022
Ph.D. Minor, Comparative Studies in Race and EthnicityBioChristina Hiromi Hobbs is an independent curator, writer, and art historian based in the Bay Area.
She is a PhD candidate in Art History at Stanford University with a minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity whose work focuses on twentieth century American art, modern and contemporary art of the Asian diaspora, and the history of photography. They are particularly interested in the intimacies of history, racial formation and historical memory, and vernacular archival practices.
Her recent projects include curating the exhibitions "In the Presence Of: Collective Histories of the Asian American Women Artists Association" at Berkeley Art Center (2024) and "Reflections of a Young Woman: Photographs from the Archive of Shigeko Kumamoto" at Latitude Chicago (2024). She also co-curated "No Monument: In the Wake of the Japanese American Incarceration" at the Noguchi Museum in Queens, New York (2022) which was featured in Artforum, Momus, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Public Seminar.
They have held research and curatorial positions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Modern Art Museum of Shanghai, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and The Renate, Hans and Maria Hofmann Trust. Her scholarship has been supported by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. -
Usha Iyer
Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFilm studies, South Asia, Caribbean, Gender, Diaspora, Race and ethnicity
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Shiven Jain
Undergrad Peer Advisor, Anthropology
Undergraduate, Anthropology
Undergraduate, Art & Art History
Undergraduate, International Comparative and Area Studies
Sle Writing Tutor, Structured Liberal EducationBioI am an aspiring anthropologist of visual culture, media ecologies, queerness and sexuality, and anti-caste methodologies as they contour themselves across the South Asian subcontinent. I am currently a sophomore majoring in Anthropology and Film & Media Studies, alongside a minor in South Asian Studies.
I have two primary research interests, one of which I hope will eventually take the shape of a thesis. First, I am interested in how queer men in India navigate the rhetoric of exclusion along vectors of caste and religion on dating and cruising apps through both vernacular hierarchies and corporeal practices of kink. I am equally interested in how the many cine-workers within Nepal and Bhutan’s film industries channel aesthetic practices through networks of piracy, adaptation, and resistance to the hegemonic presence of Indian cinema across the South Asian subcontinent.
At Stanford, I have held, and continue to hold, various leadership and administrative positions in the Department of Anthropology, Center for South Asia, Caesura Academic Journal, The Stanford Daily, Stanford Indo-Pak Dosti Forum, Stanford South Asian Society, and more. Additionally, I have facilitated two student-initiated courses in my Frosh year, namely "SLE 99 - Novels and Nationhood: Toward Decanonical Thought" and "FILMEDIA/GLOBAL 88SI - Bollywood and Beyond: Cinematic Visions in the Postcolony." Finally, I am also currently undertaking research assistantships under Professor Lochlann Jain and Professor Krish Seetah, details of which can be found on my résumé.
