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You, Yao-Fen

Senior Curator and Head of Product Design and Decorative Arts

Positions

Acting Director, Asian Pacific American Center 2022 -
Associate Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Detroit Institute of Arts 2008 - 2018
Theodore Rousseau Post-Doctoral Fellow in European Paintings, The Harvard Art Museums 2004 - 2007

Decorative arts; history of dining; history of collecting and provenance research

Geographic Focus

Europe Continent

education and training

B.A. in Art History, University of California, Berkeley , Art History, High Honors 1991 - 1995
Ph.D. in History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , History of Art 1996 - 2005

awards and honors

German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program [PREP] for Museum Professionals, conferred by Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 2018
Theodore Rousseau Post-Doctoral Fellowship, conferred by The Harvard Art Museums, 2004
Sweetland/Rackham Dissertation Institute Fellowship, conferred by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004
Graduate Scholarship for Study and/or Research in Germany, conferred by German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, 2002
BAEF Fellowship for Dissertation Research, conferred by Belgae-American Exchange Foundation [BAEF], 2001