Hoyon Mephokee is PhD candidate studying with Dr. Elizabeth C. Childs. His primary research is on the colonial cultures and technologies of France and Francophone Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural and colonial contact between the French Colonial Empire and the Siamese Kingdom (present-day Thailand). He is also interested in modernist painting and sculpture in Thailand as it emerged in the twentieth century. In addition to his work in the Art History and Archaeology department, he has completed coursework and teaching toward a graduate certificate in the Program for Film and Media Studies. His research has been supported by the Washington University Center for the Humanities, where he was a graduate student fellow. He was also an alternate recipient of a research fellowship at the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum.

 

Hoyon has presented his research at a number of conferences and symposia, including the annual conferences of the College Art Association, SECAC, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, and Cultural Studies Association. His work has been published in Athanor and by Brill and is forthcoming in West 86th, Venue, and The Journal of the Siam Society.