Our Team

Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander oversees the collection of modern and contemporary art at the Cantor Arts Center. At the Cantor, she is the curator of Spirit House (2024), Livien Yin: Thirsty (2024), East of the Pacific: Making Histories of Asian American Art (2022), and The Faces of Ruth Asawa (2022). Her accompanying catalogue to Spirit House is the museum’s first major publication of the AAAI. Alexander leads the AAAI’s curatorial program and collection building, working with artists, artist estates, galleries, and collectors.

Marci Kwon is an award-winning art historian, writer, and teacher. Her work explores alterity, minorness, value, and the ethics of relation in art and material culture, with a special focus on the history of Asian American/diasporic artists and makers. She spearheads the AAAI’s research and education activities, and works closely with Stanford Libraries & Special Collections.

Maggie Dethloff is the Assistant Curator of Photography and New Media at the Cantor Arts Center. Among her other activities, Maggie supports the AAAI by collaborating on acquisitions and exhibitions of Asian American artists working in photography, film, video, and digital media. At the Cantor, Maggie has curated the AAAI-related exhibitions TT Takemoto: Remembering in the Absence of Memory (2024), Kenneth Tam: All of M (2023), At Home/On Stage: Asian American Representation in Photography and Film (2022), and A young Yu: Mourning Rituals (2022).

Haemin Kim is the Curatorial Assistant for the AAAI. Working closely with Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, she supports the administrative and curatorial side of AAAI projects at the Cantor. Prior to coming to Stanford, she worked as a provenance researcher at the Art Institute of Chicago and educator at Wrightwood 659.

Lindsay King (she/her) is the Head Librarian of Bowes Art and Architecture Library, where she manages both services and collections, including circulating, digital, and rare materials related to art, architecture, and art history, for Stanford Libraries. She teaches students how to do art research at Stanford Libraries and facilitates classes using rare and unique materials from Art Locked Stacks and Special Collections. In 2023-25, she worked with the Pacita Abad Art Estate to acquire Pacita Abad’s archives for Stanford Libraries.

Anna Lee collects photographic materials for research and teaching at Stanford. She also promotes collections and archives through writing, exhibitions, and object-based classes and often works collaboratively with colleagues in the AAAI. In 2023, she curated Gina Osterloh: Mirror Shadow Shape and, along with Ben Stone, Focus on Community: The Ricardo Alvarado Photography Archive at Stanford. In 2024, she stewarded the acquisition of photographer, curator, and community activist Irene Poon’s archive for Special Collections.