Yifan Li is a PhD candidate specializing in the history of modern Chinese art and visual culture. His dissertation traces how material production in infrastructure, agriculture, and industry mediated the artistic production of landscape imagery in Mao’s China (1949-1976). This project has been supported by an OSU Presidential Fellowship (2023-24), as well as grants through OSU’s East Asian Studies Center and Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Stanford University East Asia Library, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, and the East and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Having been presented at such venues as the AAS Annual Conference and College Art Association Annual Conference, Yifan’s work was recognized by the AAS Best Graduate Student Paper Prize (East and Inner Asia) in 2022. Yifan holds a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Nanjing University (China), an MA in China Studies from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (China), and an MA in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture from the University of Alberta (Canada).