Sunghoon Lee

Position title: Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Early Modern Art

Pronouns: he, him, his

Email: lee2467@wisc.edu

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Biography
I am a historian of global early modern art with an emphasis on colonial art in the Spanish Empire. My first book project, titled “Escala: Art, Scale, and Geographic Distance in the Colonial Philippines,” explores how colonial Philippine art and transpacific objects conveyed emerging ideas about the immensity of the Pacific Ocean through the lens of scale. I am developing a second research project on the aspirations of early modern Europeans toward American mineral deposits, particularly copper, in European and Latin American art.