Sonia Coman

Sonia Coman

Sonia Coman’s research focuses on cross-cultural exchanges in the long 19^th century, the history of ceramics, and the history of collecting. Coman received a B.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia, where she wrote her dissertation on a set of Japanese aesthetic principles that spurred a reinvention of French and Japanese ceramics in the late 19^th century. At Columbia, she designed and taught an undergraduate seminar on the soft power of ceramic arts across world cultures. In 2018-19, Coman will prepare a book manuscript on the social circles and collecting choices behind Charles Lang Freer’s Japanese ceramics as the Anne van Biema Fellow at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.