Zida Wang (Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art) presented two research papers at the 50th Annual Social Theory, Politics & the Arts (STP&A) Conference, held October 15–17, 2026, at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. The milestone conference celebrated the 50th anniversary of STP&A, an interdisciplinary forum for scholarship on the arts and society.
Wang co-presented the following papers:
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“Navigating Arts Administration Education and Career Pathways: Stories of International Students in the United States,” with Yawei Xiao, Qiaochu Wang, and Yifeng Jiang.
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“Becoming Across Borders: A Collaborative Autoethnography of Transnational Chinese Arts Administration Scholars,” with Wen Guo, Yawei Xiao, and Yifeng Jiang.
The presentations explored international students’ educational and career pathways and the experiences of transnational Chinese scholars in arts administration, contributing to discussions of cross-cultural experiences, professional identity, and the development of arts administration scholarship.
