Sonia Coman

Sonia Coman has a research focus on cross-cultural exchanges and the history of collecting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Coman received a BA from Harvard University and a PhD in art history from Columbia University, where she designed and taught an undergraduate seminar on the soft power of ceramic arts across world cultures. In 2018–19, Coman will prepare a book manuscript on the sociopolitical circles and the collecting choices behind Charles Lang Freer’s Japanese ceramics at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.