Quoting name: Hannah L. Sigur

Professional Category/Position: Researcher

Position(s) within IHA: RG Member [Pre-Modern Visual and Material Cultures]

Thematic areas: Japan, Architecture, Japonisme, Design

Contact: hannahsigur@fcsh.unl.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: 2C11-78E9-BBE1

ORCiD: 0000-0002-9927-0355

Biography

With residences in East and Southeast Asia and a PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Hannah Sigur has taught the arts of Japan, East Asia, and East/West Exchange for universities in California, USA, 2003-2017. In Lisbon since 2018, as a member of IHA-NOVA FCSH, she has taught Arts of Japan at Universidade Nova de Lisboa; in 2023 co-curated the exhibition Mundo Flutuante: Estampas Japoneses Ukiyo-e, for the Gulbenkian Foundation, the catalogue for which won the APOM Prize for 2023; in 2024 conceived and served as advisory curator for the exhibition Kabuki Theater and the Japanese Print: Tradition and Transition, with catalogue, for the Museu do Oriente; and began a long-term project on the Chinese ceramics collection at Casa Museu Anastáçio Gonçalves that will include lectures and catalogue revision.

Her primary research considers the material culture of internationalism and identity in Meiji Japan and Gilded Age US. The Influence of Japanese Art on Design (Gibbs Smith, 2008) examines Japonisme, Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau, and Modern design pre-WWI. From her dissertation onward, the architecture of international expositions 1867 – 1915 have held special interest. Her essay on the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair’s iconic White City appears in What Happened? An Encyclopedia of Events that Changed America Forever, Vol. III (ABC-Cleo, 2010).“Neoclassicism in Translation: Japan’s Hōōden at the World’s Columbian International Exposition, 1893” appears in Expanding Nationalisms at World’s Fairs: Identity, Diversity and Exchange 1855 – 1914 (Routledge, 2017).

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Abbreviations:
RG – Research Group