Hoyon Mephokee is a cultural historian who specializes in postcolonial, decolonial, and global studies of modern European art and media. His primary research is on the colonial cultures and technologies of France and Francophone Asia in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with a particular emphasis on cross-cultural and colonial contact between the French Colonial Empire and the Siamese Kingdom (present-day Thailand). He is also interested in modernist painting and sculpture in Thailand as it emerged in the twentieth century.

Hoyon is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is advised by Dr. Elizabeth C. Childs. In addition to his departmental research, coursework, teaching, and service, he has also completed coursework and taught for the Program in Film and Media Studies towards completion of a graduate certificate in Film and Media Studies. At WashU, he is a student affiliate of French Connexions, the Villa Albertine (The French Institute of Culture and Education) Center of Excellence at Washington University. He is also currently the International Exhibitions subeditor for the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art.

His research has been supported by the Washington University Center for the Humanities, where he was a graduate student fellow. He has also been nominated for the Washington University Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence and was an alternate recipient for a research fellowship award at the Wolfsonian-FIU museum. He has presented his research at a number of conferences and symposia, including the College Art Association, SECAC, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, and Cultural Studies Association annual conferences. His research has been published in Athanor; West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture; and by Brill.