Hillary Pedersen
Curriculum Vitae
hpedersen405@gmail.com
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2021-present Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Parttime Lecturer
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND2010
2006-10

Ph.D. in Asian Art History, with honors, University of Kansas
Research student, Kyoto University Faculty of Letters, Aesthetics and Art History
Department

2004

M.A. in East Asian Art History, with honors, University of Kansas

1998

B.A. in Art History and Japanese Language and Literature (double major) University ofWashington

UNIVERSITY TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
2016-2021

Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory,
Assistant Professor

2013-2016

Konan University, Year-in-Japan Program, Part-time Lecturer(“Religious Visual Culture of Japan”)

2012-2016

Kwansei Gakuin University, Department of Religious Studies, Part-time Lecturer(“World Religions”)

2015-2016

Ryukoku University, Japan Experience Program, Part-time Lecturer(“Art and Culture of Kyoto”)

2014- 2016

Ritsumeikan University, School of International Relations, Part-time Lecturer(“International Studies in English: International Relations and Images”)

2012-2016

Kansai University, Division of International Affairs, Part-time Lecturer(“Japanese Visual Culture,” “Japanese Religious Traditions,” “Japanese History”)

2013-2015

Doshisha University, Institute for Liberal Arts and Kyoto Consortium of Japanese Studies,Part-time Lecturer(“History and Practice of Tea,” “Religious Visual Culture of Japan,” “JapaneseAesthetics”)

PUBLICATIONSJournal Articles

“Making Memories: the Conceptual Repurposing of the Kakuanji Kokūzō Bosatsu Sculpture.”
Ars Orientalis (forthcoming, November 2022)“Ofuda ni miru zuzō no keishō to hen’yō: Kannonkyōji Niōzō no baai [Iconographical Changes
and Continuity in Printed Talismans: the Case of the Kannonkyoji Niō Images].” Bijutsu foramu21 51 (May 2020), 35-44.
“Seinaru mono no hyōshō toshite no shūkyō hanga: korekushon no shiten kara [Religious Prints
as Expressions of the Sacred: Collector’s Perspectives]. Taisho imajuri 15 (May 2020), 56-80.
“Kokūzō Bosatsuzō to Nihon no mikkyō [Kokūzō Bosatsu Images and Japanese EsotericBuddhism].” Bunkagaku nenpō 69 (March 2020), 65-90.
“Religious Prints as Expressions of the Sacred: the Tsuruya Kōkei Collection.” Jimbungaku 204(November 2019), 1-40.
“Kyūseiki no Nihon ni okeru shinkō no tayōsei: Jingoji Godai Kokūzō Bosatsuzō to gogyōsetsu
no kankei o chūshin ni [Multivalent Belief in Ninth-century Japan: The Jingoji Godai Kokūzō
Bosatsu and Five-phases Theories].” Hanazono daigaku kokusai zengaku kenkyūjo gyōron 6(March 2011), 1-31
Book Chapters“Ākāśagarbha in East Asia.” In Richard Bowring, et al, ed. Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism.
Vol. II, “Lives.” Leiden: Brill, 2019.
“Color Schemes in Early and Medieval Japanese Buddhist Imagery.” In Mary Dusenbury, ed.
Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia. Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Kansas,
New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2015.
“Myōshinji Today.” In Michael Pye, ed. Eastern Buddhist Voices. Vol. 4, “Beatrice LaneSuzuki.” London: Equinox Publishing, 2013.
“Art.” In Orlando Patterson and Geoffrey Golson, eds. Cultural Sociology of the Middle East,Asia and Africa. Vol. 3, “Cultural Sociology of East and Southeast Asia, Part I, Prehistory to1200.” Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2011.
Book Reviews
Fabricating the Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara and Prince Shōtoku’s Afterlives by Chari Pradel.
Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 73:2 (Fall 2018): 250-255.
The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan by Karen Gerhart. Japanese Religions, Vol. 36
Nos. 1&2 (Spring & Fall 2011): 102-104.

SELECTED TRANSLATIONS (Japanese to English)
C.V. Pedersen2Tokyo bijutsu, ed. Shinpan Waei taishō Nihon bijutsushi yōgo jiten [Japanese-English Dictionaryof Art Historical Terms, New Edition] (Tokyo: Tokyo bijutsu, forthcoming May 2023)
Tokyo bijutsu, ed. Kiyomizu-dera mihotoke gaido [A Guide to the Buddhist Images ofKiyomizu-dera] (Tokyo: Tokyo bijutsu, 2022).
Kyoto National Museum, ed. Highlights of the Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto: Splendors of theAncient Capital. Translated in collaboration with Maya Hara, et al. Kyoto: Kyoto National
Museum, 2014, catalogue entries 66-74.
Murooji, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, Sendai-shi Hakubutsukan, eds. Special Exhibition
Supporting the Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery: Murouji, Buddhist Images from theNational Treasure Temple in Nara. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 2014, pp. iii-vii.
Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku. Daigaku Bijutsukan, Kōfukuji, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, eds.
Exhibition commemorating the 1300th anniversary of the founding of Kohfukuji: the NationalTreasure Butto (Buddha Head) of Yakushi Nyorai and Masterpieces from Kohfukuji. Tokyo:
Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 2013, pp. 248-254.
Nara National Museum, ed. The 63rd Annual Exhibition of Shōsō-in Treasures. Translated incollaboration with Monica Bethe. Nara: Nara National Museum, 2011.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2010
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Kansas
2009
Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Grant
2008-2009
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant
2006-2008
Monbushō Scholarship
2006
Kress Foundation of Art History Travel Grant, University of Kansas
2005
Scholarship for Academic Excellence in Asian Art History, University of Kansas
2005
Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, second year Chinese
2003
Summer Foreign Language Area Studies Grant, first year Chinese
SELECTED INVITED TALKS
2022“Bukkyō bijutsu no miryoku [The Allure of Buddhist Art],” NHK Culture Center Kyoto
Lectures, April 8th.
2020
“Bukkyō shikaku bunka no chūshin Kyoto: gaikoku kenkyūsha no tachiba kara [Kyoto asa Center of Buddhist Visual Culture: the Perspective of a Foreign Researcher],” Kyoto
Studies Lectures, The Consortium of Universities in Kyoto, October 3rd.
2019
“Making Memories: the Conceptual Repurposing of the Kakuanji Kokūzō Bosatsu
Sculpture,” Symposium on Reuse and Recyling in Japanese Material andVisual Culture, University of Edinburgh, June 13th
2017
“Kokūzō Bosatsuzō to Nihon no mikkyō [Images of Kokūzō Bosatsu and Japanese
Esoteric Buddhism],” Cultural Studies Association (Bunka gakkai), Doshisha University,Kyoto, Japan, July 12th.
2015“Buddhism and Buddhist Art,” “The Wabi Aesthetic,”, “Zen Temple Architecture” April
22nd, Carleton College Off-campus Studies Program, Doshisha University, Kyoto, April
10thC.V. Pedersen32014201420132012“Buddhist Images in Japanese Culture and Society,” Kobe University Summer LectureSeries, Kobe University, Kobe, August 5th“Kokūzō Bosatsu in Eighth and Early Ninth-Century Japan,” The Making of Religions
and Religious Representations in Pre-Modern Japan: Imported, Native, and ModifiedForms, International Workshop, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, January 14th.
“Color Schemes in Early and Medieval Japanese Buddhist Imagery,” Color in Ancientand Medieval East Asia Symposium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 9th“Japanese Religious Visual Culture,” University of Nebraska-Lincoln Japanese VisualCulture in Context, Myoshinji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, May 17th

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels organized2018“Alternative Animation: Inscriptions, Pedestals, and Object Caches in Premodern
Japanese Buddhist Images,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles,California, February 21st-24th.
2011“The Transmission of Asian Buddhist Thought and Image,” Asian Studies Conference
Japan, Tokyo, June 25th-26th.
Papers presented
2019“Seinaru mono no hyōshō toshite no shūkyō hanga: korekushon no shiten kara [Religious
Prints as Expressions of the Sacred: Collector’s Perspectives],” Association of Taisho
Imagery Annual Conference, Kyoto, March 24th.
2018“The Thirteenth-century Reconsecration and Inscription of an Eighth-century Bodhisattva
Sculpture,” College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California,February 21st-24th.
2016“Replicating the Past in Hopes of Legitimizing the Present: Kokūzō Bosatsu Images,”
Association for Asian Studies (Asia), Kyoto, Japan, June 24th.
2011“The Jingoji Godai Kokūzō Bosatsu Sculptures and Ninth-century Japanese Religious
Multivalence,” Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, Japan, June 25th.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2008-2009
Research Team Member, Kyoto University GCOE program, “Reexamination ofthe Private and Public Spheres in Asia”
2004-2005
Intern, Asian Art Department, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas,
2002-2003
Graduate Research Assistant, Art History Visual Resources Library, University ofKansas
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2018-present
English summary proofreader for Bijutsushi, Journal of the Japan Art History
Society
2010-present
Proofreader for Japanese Religions, NCC Center for the Study of Japanese
Religions
2014-2018
Member, Kyoto City Internationalization Promotion Committee
2010-2016
Coordinator, Kyoto Asian Studies Group, Kyoto
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
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2016-present
2007-present
2007-present
2005-present
2018-2022

Executive Board member, Kyoto International School, Kyoto
Association of Aesthetics and Art Theory (Bigaku geijutsu gakkai)
Association of Japanese Religious and Cultural History (Nihon shūkyō bunkashigakkai)College Art Association
Japan Art History Society (Bijutsushi gakkai)
Japan Art History Forum
Association of Taisho Imagery (Taisho imajuri gakkai)

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