BA University of Pittsburgh; MA, PhD University of Michigan

Dr. Hammers conducts research on the history of Chinese art and art theory. She is interested in the representations of labor and technologically-informed imagery. Her book Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor and Technology in Song and Yuan China (Hong Kong University Press, 2011) is a recipient of the College Art Association’s Millard Meiss prize. Her second book The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China explores later iterations of imagery related to the production of rice and silk. She is presently finishing a book-length manuscript on the Qing-dynasty Pictures of Cotton and writing an article on the reception of Chinese technological imagery in France and England during the 17^th and 18^th centuries.

Selected Publications

The Imperial Patronage of Labor Genre Paintings in Eighteenth-Century China. New York: Routledge, 2021.

Pictures of Tilling and Weaving: Art, Labor, and Technology in Song and Yuan China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011.

“The Peony in Painting and Verse in China from the Eighth to the Thirteenth Centuries,” in David Michener and Robert Grese, eds., Passion for Peonies: Celebrating the Culture and Conservation of Nichols Arboretum’s Beloved Flower, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020: 133-142.

“The Qianlong Rubbings of 13^th-century Pictures of Tilling: A Tale of Three Grandsons,” Bulletin of the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 16 (2016): 106-112.

“Khubilai Khan Hunting: Tribute to the Great Khan,” Artibus Asiae, 75 (2015): 5-44.

“Picturing tools for a perfect society: Wang Zhen’s Book of Agriculture and the Northern Song Reforms in the Yuan dynasty” in Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 42 (2012): 279- 308.