Nicholas Liou (he/him) is a first-year History of Art PhD student studying transpacific and Asian diasporic art with particular interests in histories of material movement, nineteenth- and twentieth-century landscapes, more-than-human-ecologies, and Indigeneity across the Pacific. He received his BA in Art History from Northwestern University and an MA in the History of Art from Williams College, where he was also a Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Williams College Museum of Art.