Congratulations to Kenneth Yu, who is a recipient of the 2025/2026 Getty Scholars Program fellowship! He will be part of the Getty Villa Scholars group, whose theme is "Religious Experience in Antiquity," and will be working in Los Angeles January to March of 2026.
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Professor Yu's project is titled "Manufacturing the Divine: Technê and the Phenomenology of Wonder in Hellenistic and Imperial Greece." A short description is included below:
"This project builds on my longstanding interest in ancient Greek thaumatology (descriptions and theorizations of wonders and marvels). It explores how burgeoning pictorial, craft, and technological traditions in the Hellenistic and Roman Empires enabled new practices of wonder making that expanded Greek religious imaginaries and engendered novel modes of sensing the gods. Focusing on the intersection of the literary and material dimensions of wonder, the project uncovers the distinctive aesthetic and affective idiom for apprehending and reflecting on the divine in the post-Classical period."
Read more about the program and the other invited scholars on the Getty Research Institute's website.