Research

Dr. Les Joynes 


Research and Academic Appointments

Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

Visiting Professor, School of Art (2013-present)


  • Professor of Record, American Art History from Modern to Contemporary. 
  • Professor of Record, Site-specific Art Practices: Performance and Installation. 
  • Research and public performance in traditional Chinese art practices. 
  • Lectures to students at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art and National Art Museum of China
  • Renmin University Merit Award (2017)


Peking University, Beijing, China


  • Global Engagement Liaison, Peking University Department of Postdoctoral Affairs (2018-present)
  • Visiting Professor, Peking University Creative Industries Summer Program (2018)
  • Teaching cultural entrepreneurship and strategic analysis for cultural industries.(2018)
  • Plenary Speaker on Art and Research on the PhD, Doctoral Program in the School of Art (2018)


Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY

Columbia University Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program


Visiting Scholar of Contemporary Visual Cultures (2018-2020)

Department of Art History and Archeology. 

  • Research on emergence of contemporary visual cultures in museums in Asia. 
  • Research on art and concepts of technology in indigenous cultures. 


Visiting Scholar in Art and Art Education, Teachers College, Columbia University (2016-2018)

  • Advanced Curriculum Design for MA and PhD programs in art. 
  • Research on international collaboration in arts education.
  • US Department of State sponsored research fellow on US-Mongolian university cooperation. 


Visiting Scholar in Art and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy (2010-2012)

  • Examining ontology of art practices during doctoral research in the UK. 


Eugene Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia Business School (2011)

  • Examination of Interdisciplinary Cooperation between arts and business.
  • Working with Columbia MBAs, Accenture and MTV to innovate new models for programming.
  • Organized by the Mayor’s Office in the City of New York.
  • Member: Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO) 


Visiting Scholar in Contemporary art practices, Columbia School of the Arts (2008-2010)

  • Research on cross-disciplinary methodologies in contemporary art.


American Center for Mongolian Studies, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia


US Department of State Sponsored ACMS Field Research Fellow (2016)

  • Research on US-Mongolian cooperation in higher education. 
  • Hosted by Mongolian National University of Education, Ulaanbaatar.


University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil


Post-Doctoral Fellow, Escola de Comunicações e Artes, School of Arts and Communications (2015-2017)

  • Researching interdisciplinary art performance.


Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, London, UK


Fellow, Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (2015)

  • Research Fellow examining US-foreign collaboration in arts and culture. 
  • Directed PhD Masterclass [lecture and workshop] to doctoral program.    


Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan


Monbushō Shōgakukin Scholar in Asian Contemporary Art (1997-2001)

  • Musashino Art University School of Art, Department of Sculpture. 
  • Tutor to BFA Sculpture Program (1997-2001).
  • Supervised by Professor Hisayuki Mogami, Head of Sculpture.


Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris, France


Erasmus Scholar in Fine Art (1995)

  • Research on sculpture methodologies - casting, new media, metal. 



California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA  


Post-graduate researcher on Technology Transfer Models (1988-1989)

  • Supervised by Professor A. Shani, Professor of Organization Behavior. 
  • Research on methodologies: Technology Transfer, Organization Design.
  • Published in Dankook University Press, Seoul, 1990. 


Boston University, Boston 

Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences


  • Post-graduate research on Global Management, Venture Capital and Technology.
  • Research on the future of management programs in Europe.



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