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David Sensabaugh

CEAS Associate-in-Research, Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Retired

David Ake Sensabaugh, the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art and head of the Department of Asian Art at the Yale University Art Gallery (retired), is a graduate of Stanford University and received his Ph.D. in Chinese and Japanese Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. His research interests are in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Chinese painting and in the art and archaeology of the Han dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He has researched Eastern Han tombs and is working on a project on Northern Dynasties tomb painting. Geographic region: East Asia (China, Korea, Japan).