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Dessa Goddard is one of America’s leading experts in Asian art. Dessa joined the company in 1981 and has brought the department to world-class stature during her now 25-year tenure with the company. She received her undergraduate degree in Art History from Northwestern University in 1973. Her graduate training took place at Harvard University in Asian Studies, where she worked closely with Professor Max Loehr in Shang and Zhou Bronzes; she then entered the University of California, Berkeley graduate program in Chinese history, where she is currently a Ph.D. candidate. She worked at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, and later graduated from the Stanford programme in Advanced Japanese in Tokyo. She continued working in Japan, completing a research fellowship at the University of Tokyo in Chinese Archeology under the late scholar of Zhou dynasty history, Dr. Matsumaru Michio. She speaks both Mandarin and Japanese, and travels widely throughout North America and Asia as a specialist and lecturer in Chinese, Japanese and Korean works of art. | 