Zane Alastair Casimir: the 2025-2026 KCC-JEE Graduate Fellowship Recipient

Zane is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Visual Studies at the University of California Irvine and has inverted his M.A. thesis approach. Whereas previously he brought art historical methodologies to case studies of play media, he is now bringing play theory methodologies to art historical and visual culture case studies in his dissertation, Play by Play: Ludic Spaces, Interventions, and Media in 20th Century Japanese Visual Culture.