Yumi Park Huntington is an interdisciplinary art historian of ancient America. She specializes in South America, investigating ceramic objects, architectural structures, and other kinds of archaeological evidence from the past four thousand years. Her research emphasizes questions of cultural identity, intercultural transmission, and relationships between human construction and natural landscape. Regularly conducting field research, Park Huntington frequently collaborates with archaeologists, anthropologists, and materials scientists working across the northern coast of Peru. Currently, she is researching transnational connections of ceramic techniques and motifs, especially blue pigment decorations, between Asia and America during the viceroyalty era. She has a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, a MA from City College of New York, a BA from Long Island University, and a BFA from Dong-A University, South Korea.
