Assistant Professor

Main Bldg 242B
Tel: 28592612
rhammers@hkucc.hku.hk

Dr. Hammers teaches courses on Chinese painting, South Asian art, Asian architectural history, and the department’s introductory course on Asian art. She was an assistant professor of art history and visual culture studies at Whitman College, Washington state, before taking her position at HKU. Dr. Hammers has published articles on The Pictures of Tilling and Weaving, a genre of painting developed during the Song dynasty. She was a fellow at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University, U.K. as well as at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C. Her interests include Song and Yuan dynasty artistic practices, the application of linguistic theories to elucidate meanings in imagery, and the reception of Asian art in Europe and North America.