Publications

Open-access versions are linked where available.

“Visual Vocabularies within Poetic Microcosms: How Hokusai’s Social Embedding Shaped Content and Presentation of the Ono and Ryakuga Manuals.” PhD diss., University of Zurich, 2023. Open access in ZORA, the University of Zurich repository. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/entities/publication/d2746306-231f-4df5-bafa-6907a4031055.

With Himanshu Panday. “Algorithmic Failure as Methodology for Art History: Machine Learning’s Mispredictions Identify Rich Cases for the Qualitative Analysis of Ukiyo-e Prints.” Digital Humanities Quarterly, special issue on AI in research. Under review.
“When Mountains Move: Decoding Spatial Practices in Ukiyo-e through Participatory Geolocalization and Computer Vision.” Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. In revision.
“Think Tasks, Not Tools: Why AI Policy in Higher Education Needs Constructive Alignment.” Teaching in Higher Education, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2026.2671391.
“Mapping Late Hokusai Research: Digitizing and Publishing Bilingual Research Data.” Digital Studies / Le champ numérique 12, no. 1 (2022). https://doi.org/10.16995/dscn.8079.
With D. Oldman and D. Tanase. “ResearchSpace Case Study on Sequencing Hokusai Print Impressions to Form a Human Curated Network of Knowledge.” International Journal for Digital Art History 4 (2019): 5.29–5.45. https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2019.4.72071.

“Travel and Famous Places: Movement and Imagination in Ukiyo-e Landscapes / Voyage et lieux célèbres: Mouvement et imaginaire dans l’ukiyo-e au fil des paysages.” In Impressions du Japon / Impressions of Japan, edited by Anne Deltour and Margaux Honegger, 174–81. Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess; Vevey: Musée Jenisch, 2025.
“Hokusai beyond the Database: Transforming Digital Archives into a Complex Collaborative Research Environment.” In Late Hokusai: Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy, edited by Timothy Clark, 245–52. London: British Museum, 2023. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-237020.
“Digitally Supported Visualisations of Japanese Archaeology at the British Museum.” In EU Workshop Report Papers, EU–Japan Studies Activity Report 2016, 231–50. Osaka: Kansai University Graduate School of Letters, 2017.
With R. Gomez Morilla and B. Huber. “La collection d’estampes japonaises du Cabinet d’arts graphiques des Musées d’art et d’histoire de Genève / The Japanese Woodcuts in the Collection of Prints and Drawings of the Musées d’art et d’histoire in Geneva.” In Le geste suspendu: Estampes Kabuki du Cabinet d’arts graphiques, edited by Christian Rümelin. Cologne: Wienand, 2014.
“Entdeckerlust, faszinierende Holzschnitte und Japan sammeln.” In Burgdorfer Jahrbuch 2015. Burgdorf: Verein Burgdorfer Jahrbuch, 2014. Essay on the history of the Völkerkundesammlung Burgdorf.

Drawing from the Crowd Dataset. 3,102 Japanese prints and book pages located on a map by volunteers. GitHub. https://github.com/stesantschi/dftc_data.
Review of Salon Culture in Japan: Making Art, 1750–1900, edited by Akiko Yano. Silva Iaponicarum 74 (2026): 78–82. https://doi.org/10.14746/sijp.2025.74.5.
“Review of the 125th International ARC Seminar (Ellis Tinios), ‘Hokusai the Alchemist: An Exploration of Sources for His Book Illustration.’” Art Research 25 (2024). Kyoto: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University. https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/download/ar/ar25-1/04/ar_25-1_santschi.pdf.
“Report on the Talk ‘Drawings by Hokusai and His Students at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.’” e-Bulletin, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, July 2023. https://www.sainsbury-institute.org/e-bulletin/july-2023/report-on-the-talk-drawings-by-hokusai-and-his-students-at-the-museum-of-fine-arts-boston/.
With Drew Richardson. “From Print to Place: Creating an Integrative Geolocalization Workflow Using Citizen Scientists and Computer Vision AI.” In The Digital Orientalist conference proceedings, December 12, 2025.
“Think Tasks Not Tools: Teaching AI Literacy in East Asian Art History.” The Digital Orientalist (blog), September 9, 2025. https://digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/09/think-tasks-not-tools-teaching-ai-literacy-in-east-asian-art-history/.