Rong Lin
PhD Student: Mesoamerican art history
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Rong Lin is a PhD student of Pre-Columbian art history at UIC. She holds a BA in Art History from Peking University, China, and a MA in Archaeology from University College London. Her research interests lie in the entanglement of materiality, sensorial and embodied experiences, with politics and conceptions of divinity in Mesoamerican art making and use. Her current project works on how the making, installing, collecting, archaizing and final placing of double-sided masks in Nahua art was related with their expression of divinity and political power. She is also interested in the collecting and reception of Pre-Columbian objects in early modern period, especially the anachronism in this process. Prior to entering the program, she interned at the Sackler Museum and Center of Visual Studies at Peking University and OCAT Institute in Beijing.