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.

Kathryn Cua is the Curatorial Assistant for the AAAI. Kat’s work is primarily focused at the Cantor where she provides administrative support to Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander. Kat also provides research support for AAAI-related collections and exhibitions. She has assisted with Spirit House (2024) and Livien Yin: Thirsty (2024) and curated Archive Rooms: Bernice Bing (2024), a pilot presentation at the museum highlighting the art historical resources available at 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).

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. Prior to coming to Stanford, she worked as an art librarian at Yale University and Northwestern University, and as a museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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.