Susan Erickson, Ph.D.

Professor of Art History
Susan Erickson, Ph.D.
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters
Language, Culture, and the Arts
schedule Tuesday and Thursday 2:00pm- 3:00pm or by appointment

Teaching Areas:

Art History/Applied Art, Human Centered Engineering Design

Research Areas:

Ancient China, Art History, Chinese Art

Biography and Education

Education

Ph.D. University of Minnesota; M.A. University of Minnesota

Selected Publications

The Shield-shaped Jade Pendant: A Singular Han Dynasty Type and its Later Revivals, Archives of Asian Art (2018) 68 (2): 157-190.

Suspended Jade: Jade Pendant Sets from Western Han Dynasty Tombs, in Life and Afterlife in Han China. Cambridge: The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2014, 88109.

Ways of Facing the Dead in Ancient China, Arts Asiatiques, vol. 67, 2012: 1934.

The Han Dynasty Que Pillars of the Central Marchmount Mt. Song in Henan Province, Oriental Art, vol. 50, no. 5, 2011: 217.

Han dynasty tomb structures and contents, book chapter in Chinas Early Empires: A Re-appraisal, ed. by M. Loewe and M. Nylan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 1382.

The Archaeology of the outlying lands, co-authored book chapter with Yi Song-mi and Michael Nylan in Chinas Early Empires: A Re-appraisal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 135168.

Que Pillars at the Wu Family Cemetery and Related Structures in Shandong and Henan Provinces, in Rethinking Recarving: Ideals, Practices, and Problems of the "Wu Family Shrines" and Han China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, 110131.

Eastern Han Dynasty Cliff Tombs of Santai Xian, Sichuan Province, Journal of East Asian Archaeology, vol. 5, nos. 14, 2003 (actual release date: 2006): 401469.

Contributed thematic essays and object entries (pp. 333335; 402411; 456462) for exhibition catalogue: Cary Liu, Michael Nylan and Anthony Barbieri-Low, Recarving Chinas Past: Art Archaeology, and Architecture of the Wu Family Shrines. Princeton and New Haven: Princeton University Art Museum & Yale University Press, 2005.

The Sweet Hereafter: Art from Han Dynasty Tombs, exhibition catalogue, editor and author of introduction, January 2003. University of Michigan-Dearborn, ARTH 410 class project.