Julie Nelson Davis is the Paul F. Miller, Jr. and E. Warren Shafer Miller Professor of History of Art and Chair of the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. Davis holds a BA from Reed College, did graduate studies at Gakushūin University in Tokyo, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Washington. Her research engages Japanese prints, illustrated books, and paintings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Davis is author of Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (2007, 2021), Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market (2014), and Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context (2021), along with numerous articles and essays. She has served as lead curator for exhibitions, including Inventing Utamaro: A Japanese Masterpiece Rediscovered (2017), Arthur Tress and the Japanese Illustrated Book (2022) and From Midcentury to Manga: Modern Japanese Prints in America (2023). She has served as Field Editor, Board member, and Editor-in-Chief at caa.reviews, as well as President of the Japan Art History Forum. Davis has received fellowships from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, the Clark Art Institute, and the Guggenheim Foundation, among others. She was Ishibashi Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg (2019), Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2023), and is on the faculty for the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Currently, she is completing on a book about imitation, homage, and fabrication in ukiyo-e and conducting research for a second project on the history of the illustrated book in Japan.