Professor Kaufmann's ongoing projects include numerous studies of world art history. Together with Elizabeth Pilliod, he is publishing Art & the World: Global Visions. His recent publications include Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (Amsterdam University Press and University of Chicago Press, 2014) , coedited with Michael North, and Circulations in the Global History of Art (Ashgate, 2015), coedited with Catherine Dossin and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, and an edition and introduction to a new translation of Julius von Schlosser, The Cabinets of Art and Wonder of the Late Renaissance, Los Angeles, Getty Research Center, 2021.