Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley: Mia M. Mochizuki

Assistant Professor of Art History and Religion
B.A., Vassar College
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Phone: (510) 549-5010
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Download a syllabus for the following courses:
HSRA 4638: The Jesuits And The Arts (taught with Patten Gargiulo-GT)
RA 3490: Masterpieces of Religious Art
RA 3536: Exegesis of Devotional Art
RA 4640: Iconoclasm and the Image
RA 4918: Art of the Jesuit Missions
RA 4942: Rembrandts Religious Paintings
STRA 3155: Built of Living Stones (taught with Alejandro Garcìa-Rivera, Ph.D.)

Dr. Mochizuki joined the faculty in 2005 after teaching in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She teaches courses on Art of the Jesuit Missions, The Baroque Spirit, Exegesis of Devotional Art, Iconoclasm and the Image, The Jesuits and the Arts, Masterpieces of Devotional Art and Religious Rembrandt. Her research interests are in early Netherlandish, reformation, seventeenth-century Dutch and Baroque art. She is the author of The Netherlandish Image after Iconoclasm, 1566-1672 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008), which addresses the challenges for church decoration in the first century after iconoclasm and was awarded the College Art Association Publication Award for 2007, and co-editor with Amy Golahny and Lisa Vergara of In His Milieu. Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honor of John Michael Montias (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006) on the use of archives and economic history for the study of art history.

Selected articles:

"Idolatry and Western-inspired Painting in Japan," in Michael Cole and Rebecca Zorach, eds, Idols in the Age of Art (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).
"Deciphering the Dutch at Deshima and the Visual Vocabulary of Exploration," in Benjamin J. Kaplan, ed., The Boundaries of the Netherlands: Ambiguities, Exchanges, Transgressions (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
"At Home with the Ten Commandments," in Amy Golahny, Mia M. Mochizuki and Lisa Vergara, eds, Essays in Memory of John Michael Montias (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006).
With Amy Golahny and Lisa Vergara, eds, Essays in Memory of John Michael Montias (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2006).
"Supplanting the Devotional Image after Netherlandish Iconoclasm" in Anne McClanan and Jeffrey Johnson, eds, Negating the Image: Case Studies of Past Iconoclasms (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), pp. 137-62.
"An Overlooked Still Life by Jacob Saverij" Source. Notes in the History of Art 23, no. 4 (Summer 2004): 25-37.
"The Quandary of the Dutch Reformed Church Masters," in Arie-Jan Gelderblom, Jan L. de Jong and Marc Van Vaeck, eds, The Low Countries as Crossroads of Religious Belief. Intersections. Yearbook for Early Modern Studies 3 (2003): 141-63+.