Nicholas Liou (he/him/his) '20
Nicholas is an alumnus of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, where he majored in Art History and minored in Asian Humanities. He is broadly interested in twentieth-century East Asian art, Japan, Taiwan, and histories of Japanese colonialism. His thesis project examined the photomontage of Japanese graphic designer Kimura Tsunehisa and explored its connections between World War II imagery and a particularly American brand of capitalist consumerism present in postwar Japanese society. In addition to being a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Nicholas was a Franke Fellow at Northwestern's Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities during his senior year and a student docent at the Block Museum of Art. Nicholas is currently at Williams College in Williamstown, MA as a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Williams College of Museum of Art and an MA student in the History of Art program hosted by Williams College and the Clark Art Institute. Afterwards, he hopes to pursue a Ph.D. and make art history more accessible to a wider audience.