Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld

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Biography

Gennifer Weisenfeld is the Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art History at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, specializing in Japanese Art History. Her research interests include modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Weisenfeld's work explores the impact of Japan's modern sociopolitical transformations on artistic production and practice, cultural formations during nation and empire building, Japanese modernism, avant-garde politics, visual culture during disasters, and commercial design. She serves as a core faculty member of the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, actively engaging in research that sheds light on the relationships between art, societal shifts, and visual culture in Japan. Her recent publications include 'The Fine Art Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, Empire in Modern Japan', which examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design and its social and political ideologies affecting everyday life.

Research Interests

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)