PhD Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (the Art of Late Antiquity)

MA  University of California, Riverside, Art History (Early Medieval Art)

BA  California State University, San Bernardino (Art History)

Dr. Paulsen Bahmer is from the United States. Trained from childhood in Shakespearean theatre, classical music, and the visual arts, she completed her formal education in art history when it became clear that mythology, folklore, and art were where her true interests lay. In spare moments, she explores the Chinese versions of all these things.

Current research interests include:

Using virtual reality for formal and informal pedagogy

Social messaging in mythology and folklore transmission, particularly in popular culture (both ancient and contemporary)

Chinese intangible cultural heritage

Liminal spaces and divisions (borders, boundaries, frames, and thresholds)

Wang Shu, director. “Finding Wenzhou: The World-Wide Thousand Year Old Port.” Wenzhou-Kean University [video]. 6 August 2023.

Wang Shu, director. “To Inherit, To Last” Finding Wenzhou Episode 2. Wenzhou-Kean University [video].

AH1700 History of Art: Prehistory to the Renaissance

AH1701 History of Art: From the Renaissance to Today

PHIL2505 Critical Thinking

GE2025 Research and Technology: Design

AH 3760 Medieval Art

AH 3770 The Art of Greece and Rome

AH 3795 The Pre-Columbian Arts of Central America

GD3030 The History of Visual Communication (Graphic Design)

AH 4010 Special Topics (Art and Myth)