Katharine Burnett
Katharine Burnett
Tea and Material-Visual Culture
University of California, Davis
kpburnett@ucdavis.edu
At University of California, Davis, Katharine Burnett is Professor, Art History, Department of Art and Art History; Founder and Director, Global Tea Institute for the Study of Tea Culture and Science (GTI); Founder/Director, GTI Collection of Art and Material Culture. She is also Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Global Tea Series, Brill (established 2024). In research and teaching, she explores definitions of culture and asks how culture is formed. Her tea-related projects include “Art History without the Art: The Curious Case of Sino-Vietnamese Teapots before 1700,” forthcoming; and “Chen Jiru, Shi Dabin, and the Marvelously Extraordinary, Inventively Original Teapot,” in preparation.