Dr. Johnathan Farris
Assistant Professor, Art History
About Johnathan
Ph.D. Cornell University (2004)
M.A. University of Virginia (1995)
B.A. Yale University (1993)
Dr. Farris’s recent research has focused on the artistic and architectural products of cultural exchange between Asia and the West from the 17th through the early 20th centuries. His published work has dwelt on the environments of the China trade in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, but he has cultivated a thorough knowledge of arts of East and Southeast
Publications
- “Architecture of Hong Kong” in Oxford Bibliographies in Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. ed. Kevin Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. [online]
- “Contingency and Opportunity: The First Century of Hong Kong’s Public Parks” in Looking at the World History of Planning: Proceedings of the 18th IPHS Conference, Yokohama, 2018.
- Enclave to Urbanity: Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late 18th to the Early 20th Centuries (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016).
- “Dwelling Factors: Western Merchants in Canton,” in Carole Shammas, ed. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment: Europeans, Asians, Settlers and Indigenous Societies (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2012).
- “Treaty Ports of China and the West’s Architectural Presence,” in Carola Hein, ed. Port Cities: Dynamic Landscapes and Global Networks (New York: Routledge, 2011).
- “Thirteen Factories of Canton: An Architecture of Sino-Western Collaboration and Confrontation,” in Buildings and Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Volume 14, 2007, pp 66-83.
- Numerous book reviews relating to topics in the history of Asian and Western art, architecture, and urbanism.
- Principal authorship of ten individual and district nominations to the National Register of Historic Places.
Contact Information
Office: Bliss 4087
phone: 330.941.3607
e-mail: jfarris01@ysu.edu