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Yui Kanda

Ph.D.

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.

Sample Publications

  • PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
    • Kanda, Yui. 2023. “If I Circumambulate Around Him, I Will Be Burnt: A Brass Candlestick Endowed to the Mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kazim, Kazimayn.”  Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies (ahead-of-print): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/05786967.2023.2170817 
    • Kanda, Yui. 2017. “Kashan Revisited: A Luster-Painted Ceramic Tombstone Inscribed with a Chronogram Poem by Muhtasham Kashani.” Muqarnas 34 (1): 273–286. https://doi.org/10.1163/22118993_03401P011
    • Kanda, Yui. 2017. “Revisiting the So-Called Ghaybī Workshop: Toward a History of Burjī Mamluk Ceramics.” Orient 52: 39–57. https://doi.org/10.5356/orient.52.39 
  • PEER-REVIEWED CONTRIBUTION TO ACADEMIC BOOKS
    • Kanda, Yui. 2023 (accepted and forthcoming). “Iranian Blue-and-White Ceramic Vessels and Tombstones Inscribed with Persian Verses, c. 1450–1725.” In Routledge Companion to the Global Renaissance, edited by Stephen John Campbell and Stephanie Porras. London: Routledge. 

Current Position

Project Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies