Louisa McDonald is an associate professor of art history and chair of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) who specializes in Japanese art. She earned a PhD in East Asian art from Stanford University, focusing on medieval Japanese narrative scroll painting, and did post-graduate studies in Japanese art history at Tokyo University. After a postdoc at Harvard University, where she was an associate in research at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Louisa taught in New England and then joined the faculty at UNLV. Her scholarly interests range widely from French Japonisme to modern and contemporary Japanese art. Currently, her research is focused on the relationship between art and war, particularly the World War II art of the Japanese artist Fujita Tsuguharu (1886-1968). She contributed to and co-edited Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960, an anthology of art historical essays.