Dr. Deanna MacDonald has taught art and architectural history at Temple University’s Tokyo Campus since 2012. She received an MA in art history from the Central European University Prague campus, and a PhD in Art History from McGill University, Montreal with a dissertation on the art and architectural patronage of Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands. Her interests include cross-cultural exchange and global art and architecture, the early modern period, gender & the arts and Japanese visual culture.
Despite obstacles, women became exceptional artists in the Renaissance