Nayoung Kim

Position title: Ph.D. Candidate; Chazen Museum of Art Project Assistant

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Email: nkim223@wisc.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Education
B.A. Seoul National University, 2017
M.A. Seoul National University, 2020

Research Interests
Nayoung’s research focuses on printed images of family and community in late medieval and early modern Europe. Her dissertation, “Lures of Order: Genealogical Images of Northern Europe, 1450-1650,” discusses early modern genealogy as an intersection of politics, history, natural sciences, religion, and art. She argues that this process was propelled by the spread of printing technology. Her research has been presented at conferences including the Renaissance Society of America and the Sixteenth Century Society Conference.

Biography
Nayoung received her M.A. in Art History from Seoul National University, South Korea, where her thesis examined the imagery of St. Anne in relation to women’s roles in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century politics. She served as Project Assistant for the Permanent Collection Reinstallation project at the Chazen Museum of Art during the academic years 2023-2025.

Award(s)
2023 Douglas Schewe Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
“Beautiful and Monstrous: Late Medieval Images of the Unicorn Hunt”

Primary Advisor(s)
Thomas E. A. Dale

Teaching
ART HIST 201: History of Western Art II: Renaissance to Contemporary