Academic Profile
Yui KANDA, Ph.D. is a Project Assistant Professor at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
She received her M.Phil. in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford in 2015 (as a Keidanren Ishizaka Memorial Foundation scholar), and M.A. in History of Art at the University of Tokyo in 2012. During the academic year 2017–18, she resided in Cambridge MA, and pursued her research as a Visiting Graduate Student Researcher in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at the Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA) at Harvard University. She submitted her dissertation, entitled Persian Verses and Crafts in the Late Timurid and Safavid Periods (in English) to the University of Tokyo in November 2020 and recieved Ph.D. from the same university in February 2021.
She teaches Islamic Art at Rikkyo University (Saint Paul's University), Kyoto University of the Arts, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo, Nihon University, and Seikei University.