Art Historian, Scholar of Asian Studies, and Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Kennesaw State University
Chinese (Atlanta and Chongqing), 1996
Yanhua Zhou, Ph.D., is an art historian and scholar of Asian studies, currently serving as Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Kennesaw State University (USA). Her research examines the intersection of art and geographic politics in contemporary Asia, global socially engaged art in transnational contexts, and research-based art addressing China’s infrastructural development and geopolitical expansion. Dr. Zhou’s research and teaching bridge cultural and educational systems in the United States and China. Before joining KSU, Dr. Zhou served as Full Professor of Art History at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (China), Affiliated Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, and an IAFOR Global Research Fellow at the University of Osaka (Japan). Her scholarship appears in monographs and journals including China Information, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and CAA Reviews, as well as leading art journals in China. Her article “When Public Art Becomes the Mass Line” received the 2023 Best Article Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. She is currently working on her first English-language book project, Art, Curation, and Public Making in the Age of China’s “Infrastructure Mania.”
