Dr. McDonald is trained as an art historian with a specialization in the art of Asia, primarily Japan and China. In addition to her graduate degree in art history from Stanford, Dr. McDonald studied Japanese art history and calligraphy at Tokyo University, and as a Visiting Fellow, conducted post-graduate studies at Harvard University. Dr. McDonald's expertise is first, Japanese narrative painting of the medieval periods, Heian through Muromachi, and second, modern Japanese art, Meiji to contemporary. She has written on contemporary Japanese sculpture and was consulted in two exhibitions, A Primal Spirit, and New Work Japan. She is currently completing a study of the 20th-Century Japanese painter Fujita Sugioka (1886-1968). Dr. McDonald has previously taught at Stanford University, Harvard University, Tufts University Wellesley College, Dartmouth College, and Sophia University in Tokyo, and has presented lectures the Los Angels County Museum of Art, and lecture series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield (MA). Her research and criticism has appeared in Apollo Magazine, The Burlington Magazine, The Japanese Times, Tokyo, The Encyclopedia of Japan, and the Grove Dictionary of Art. Dr. McDonald's research has received support from National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Japan Foundation. Her expertise as a Japanese art-historian has earned her a place as Faculty Lecture aboard several Japanese Study tours sponsored by Stanford Travel and the Stanford Alumni Association.
Ph.D., Stanford University
MA, Stanford University
BA, Stanford University
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