Yusi Liu

Bryn Mawr College

Samuel H. Kress Art and Architecture of Antiquity Fellow

Research Topic: Displaying Greek Antiquity in America: Archaeology, Diplomacy, and International Relations in the Twentieth Century

Yusi Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology (CNEA) at Bryn Mawr College. She received her B.A. with honors in Art History and Classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018 and her M.A. in CNEA at Bryn Mawr in 2021. She participated in the ASCSA Summer Session in 2019 and the Tulane-Siena Summer Study Institute for International Law, Cultural Heritage & the Arts in 2023. Her broad research interests include intellectual history of classical art and archaeology, classical receptions, and museum and provenance studies. Yusi has experience at the Bryn Mawr Art & Artifacts Collection, the Penn Museum, the Ancient Corinth Museum, and the Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum.

She was a graduate Antiquities curatorial intern at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2023–24. Yusi was an Associate Member at the ASCSA in 2025–26, and as the Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Yusi will continue working on her dissertation, which investigates the history of exhibitions of Greek antiquity from Greece in the United States during the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay between exhibition practices, archaeology, and cultural diplomacy within national and international contexts.