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NAME: Michael William Meister

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EDUCATION:

HONORARY DEGREE:

University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1979

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Teaching

2008
Gastprofessur, Institut fur Kunstgeschichte, Universitat Wein, April-June.
2002-
W. Norman Brown Professorship in South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
2000-2002
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Chair, University of Pennsylvania.
1988-
Professor, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania. South Asian Curator, Asian Section, University Museum; Curator, South Asian Art Archive, van Pelt library. Member, Ph.D. Architecture Graduate Group, Graduate School of Fine Arts, and South Asia Studies, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, and History of Art Graduate Groups, School of Arts and Sciences.
1979-88
Associate Professor, Departments of the History of Art and South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
1976-79
Assistant Professor, Departments of the History of Art and South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
1974-76
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Center for Asian Studies, and Graduate Faculty, University of Texas, Austin.
1969-70
Dunster House India Seminar, Harvard.
1968
Experiment in International Living Group Leader, India.
1964-66
Fulbright Tutor (English), Maharaja's College, Jaipur (1964- 65); Fergusson College, Pune (1965-66).

Lecture Series, Panels, Symposia

2012.1
“Gumbat Balo-Kale (Swat):  Architectural Analysis, Conservation, and Excavation (2011),” Michael W. Meister, Luca M. Olivieri, & Massimo Vidale, European Association of South Asian Archaeology, 21st biannual conference, Paris.
2012.2
“‘How She Really Is’: God’s Eyes and Stella Kramrisch.” Symposium, Divine Artefacts: Stella Kramrisch and Art History in the Twentieth Century, keynote, Courtauld Institute, London.
2012.3
“Provenance: ‘Obscure Objects of Desire’.” Friends of India Art, SOAS, London.
2012.4
“Rajasthan or registan? An Architectural Perspective.” Workshop on The Intersections of Religion, Society, Polity, and Economy in Rajasthan, Amherst College.
2012.5
“Seeds and Mountains: The Cosmogony of Temples in South Asia.” Heaven on Earth, Temples Ritual & Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World, The Eighth Annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Symposium, Chicago.
2012.6
“Tracing a V&A Artifact from Cover to Temple.” Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum research seminar, London.
2011.1
"Conducting Research in Pakistan: Restoring Religious Monuments in Swat," Penn Light Bulb Cafe.
2011.2
"Continuities of Architectural Heritage in the Northwestern Regions of Pakistan," Cultural Heritage Issues in Pakistan: Archaeology, Museums and Conservation, American Institute of Pakistan Studies symposium, Islamabad.
2011.3
“Continuities of Architectural Heritage in the Northwest.” American Council for Southern Asian Art, 15th biannual conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
2011.4
"Reconstructing 'gumbats': Sacred Shelters in Swat," Medieval and Rennaissance Group, Yale University, New Haven.
2011.5
"'Shadow-Covered' Devalayas: Swat," At the Foothills of the Hindukush: Art and Archaeology of the Swat Valley, Pakistan, Symposium, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
2011.6
"Water Architecture in South Asia," Quadrangle, Bryn Mawr PA.
2010.1
Chair, "Between Image and Text" panel, History and Material Culture in Asian Religions Symposium, University of Pennsylvania.
2010.2
"Decoding Origins for India’s Temples," Ellen Bayard Weedon Lecture in the Arts of Asia, University of Virginia.
2010.3
"The Salt Range Temple and Indus Project," South Asian Students' Association, Brown University, Providence RI.
2010.4
"Toward a New Hinduism: Temple as an Ocean of Story," Association of Asian Studies' Annual Conference, Philadelphia.
2010.5
"Uncovering Bilot," European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 20th biannual conference, Vienna, Austria.
2009.1
"Abstracting Figuration," American Council for Southern Asian Art, biannual confererence, Dennison University, Granville OH.
2009.2
"An Art of Pure Energy: The Works of Akbar Padamsee: A Conversation with the Artist," Gieve Patel, and Michael Meister, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi.
2009.3
"India's Angkor," Penn State University, State College PA.
2009.4
"My Google Summer: When is a Rose Apple Not a Rose," Art History Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
2009.5
"Obscure Objects of Desire," The Art Institute, Chicago IL.
2008.1
"Figuration and Corporeality in South Asia," Panel Organiser and Chair. College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas TX.
2008.2
"Multiple Modernities: South Asian Art in the 20th Century," Institut fur Kuntsgeschichte, Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria.
2008.3
"Palaces, Kings, and Sages: New Evidence for Early Indian Architecture." "Kanganhalli: A Newly Discovered Stupa" Symposium. Frei Universitat, Berlin.
2008.4
"Social, Symbolic, and Formal Origins of the Indian Temple" lecture series, Institut fur Kuntsgeschichte, Universitat Wien, Vienna Austria.
2007.1
"Archaeology in Real Time: The Getty Project." European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 19th International Conference on South Asian Archaeology, Ravenna, Italy.
2007.2
"Kings, Palaces, and Sages: New Evidence for Early Indian Architecture," ACSAA Symposium XIII, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco CA.
2007.3
"Traveling from One Temple to the World," Oriental Club of Philadelpha Symposium.
2007.4
"A Web of Imagery: A Temple's Mountainous Surround," Mildred and McLeod Riggins Lectureship. "Fashioning the Divine" symposium, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina.
2007.5
"Workshop on India's Angkor, Masrur," Western Himalayan Archive Vienna (WHAV), Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria.
2006.1
"Approaching the Buddha & Kanganhalli Narratives," Swiss-India Society, Museum of Cultures, Basel, Switzerland.
2006.2
"Iconoplasty and Iconopraxis in South Asia," College Art Association, Annual Conference, Boston.
2006.3
"Mountain Temples and Temple-Mountains," School of Architecture, Bari Polytechnic, Bari, Italy.
2006.4
"Stone Temple Construction," School of Architecture, Bari Polytechnic, Bari, Italy.
2006.5
"Masrur: Secrets of an Ancient Indian Temple," Philomathean Society, Philadelphia.
2005.1
"Building a Temple," Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Chicago.
2005.2
"Early Architecture and Its Transformations," European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 18th International Conference on South Asian Archaeology, London.
2005.3
"Mountain Temples and Temple-Mountains: Masrur," Art History Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
2005.4
"New Research on the Architecture of South Asia," Department of Architecture, University of Hawaii, Manoa.
2005.5
"Responses to Shangrila: Doris Duke's Islamic Art in Hawaii," Honolulu Academy of the Arts.
2005.6
"Studying Architecture in South Asia," History, Theory, and Criticism, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2004.1
"Fig Gardens of Amb-Sharif, Folklore and Archaeology," in the "International Seminar on the Salt Range Culture Zone, Pakistan," University of Pennsylvania and University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2004.2
"New Research on the Architecture of South Asia," Penn in India Program, Pune.
2003.1
"Architecture in Early Islamic Pakistan," Humboldt University, Berlin.
2003.2
"The Art of India: The Jaipaul Family Indian Art Collection," Allentown Art Museum, Allentown PA.
2003.3
"Reinterpreting Architecture: Early Pakistan," University of Vienna.
2003.4
"Saints and Mausoleums: Homage to Grabar," Art History Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
2003.5
"Water in a Desert Landscape," European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 17th International Conference on South Asian Archaeology, Bonn.
2002.1
"Cities of God: Temples in South Asia," South Asia Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
2002.2
"Crossing Lines: Architecture in Early Islamic South Asia," University of Rome.
2002.3
"Open Boundaries: Early Islamic Art in Pakistan," Museo Nationale di l'Arte Orientale, Roma.
2002.4
Chair, "Open Session: South Asia or Transnational Studies," College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia.
2002.5
Respondent, "A Temple and a Text: Two Monuments in the Intellectual Life of Dennis Hudson," The Barbara Stoller Miller Memorial Seminar, Barnard College and Columbia University.
2001.1
"Archaeology at Kafirkot," European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, 16th International Conference on South Asian Archaeology, Paris.
2001.2
"Crossing Lines: Architecture in Early Islamic South Asia," symposium on "Exploring the Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture" organized by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, MA.
2001.3
"Monuments and Architecture: Continuities of Experience," International Colloquium on Indus Civilization: Dialogue Among Civilizations, Islamabad.
2001.4
Panelist, "On Knowledge and its Objects in South Asia," conference held at The Asia Society and Columbia University.
2001.5
"Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Kafirkot," Asia Study Group, Islamabad.
2001.6
"Vernacular Architecture and the Rhetoric of Re-Making," International Seminar on "Traditional and Vernacular Architecture," DakshinaChitra, Chennai.
1999.1
"Giving Up and Taking On: The Body in Ritual," Sarira Conference, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1999.2
"Naked Icons: Images and Ornament," Power of Sight Faculty Seminar, University of Pennsylvania.
1999.3
"Naked Icons: Ornament in Ritual," Amy M. Sackler Memorial Lectureship, Mt. Holyoke College.
1999.4
"India's Temples and the Practice of Architecture," Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts.
1999.5
"Self-Preservation and the Life of Temples," Continuities of Community Patronage Workshop, University of Pennsylvania.
1999.6
"Temple Conservation and Transformation," 15th International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Leiden.
1998.1
"Light on the Lotus: Temple Decoration or Essential Form?," International Symposium on "Sunghar and Sringar," Bombay, India. (Reprinted in Desert Temples above.)
1998.2
"Lost Temples of the Indus and Living Pilgrimage Temples in Rajasthan," Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts, New Delhi.
1998.3
"New Archaeological Discoveries Along the Indus: Temples, Their Chronology, and Questions About Their Cults," Derarshri Memorial Lecture, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
1998.4
"New Discoveries of Temples On the Indus," American Institute of Indian Studies Center for Art and Archaeology, Varanasi.
1998.5
"Rajasthan Studies: The Getty Project," Madison South Asia Conference, Madison WI.
1998.6
"Self-Preservation and the Life of Temples," American Council for Southern Asian Art Symposium, Charleston SC.
1998.7
"Unknown Temples of Pakistan," Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, Rajasthan.
1997.1
"Chronology of Temples Along the Indus," Asia Studies Group Symposium on Indus Civilization: The Known and Unknown, American Center, Islamabad, Pakistan.
1997.2
"Chronology of Temples in the Salt Range, Pakistan," 14th International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists , Rome, Italy.
1997.3
"Making Mandalas in India as Physical Constructs," Mandala: Spaces and Symbols of Enlightenment symposium, The Asia Society, New York City.
1997.4
"The Rise of the Temple Complex," SARS South Asia Seminar on Power and Culture.
1997.5
"Temple Architecture and Divine Vision," in the "Art of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia" series, Smithsonian Associates, Washington, D.C.
1997.6
"Temples of the Indus," Department of History, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
1996.1
"Cosmos in a Teacup: The Unity and Gravity of an Elemental Architecture," South Asia Conference, University of California, Berkeley.
1996.2
"Origins of Mosques in South Asia," American Center, Lahore, Pakistan, co-sponsored by the Department of Archaeology, Panjab State.
1996.3
"Temples Along the Indus," American Committee for South Asian Art Symposium, Miinneapolis.
1996.4
"The Unity and Gravity of an Elemental Architecture," panel on "Embedded Ecologies," Wisconsin South Asia Conference, Madison.
1994.1
"Sweetmeats and Corpses: Ethno- or Art-History?" American Committee for South Asian Art, New York, NY.
1994.2
"Temples in the Salt Range." Third International RajaW\sthan Studies Conference, Jaipur, India.
1993.1
"Hindutva or Al-Hind?: What Was 'Middle India' Really Like?" Workshop on "Middle Space, Middle Time: Central India, 700-1200 C.E." Columbia University, New York.
1993.2
"Sweetmeats or Corpses: Community, Conversion, and Sacred Places." Workshop on "Jains in Indian History and Culture," Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
1993.3
"Why So Many Deities When One Cosmos is Enough?" The Asia Society, New York and Washington.
1992.1
"Cosmos in a Tea-cup," symposium on "Creating Environments: Nature, Space and Form," School of Architecture, University of California, San Diego.
1992.2
"The Unity and Gravity of an Elemental Architecture," seminar on the "Pañcamahâbhûtas (Five Elements)," Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi.
1992.3
Chaired panel on "Regional Identity in Architecture and Music," workshop on "Sacred Regions and Dreaded Realms: Defining the 'South' in the Indian Traditions," Conference on Religion in South India, San Francisco.
1991.1
"Seeing and Knowing: Semiology, Semiotics and the Art of India," colloquium on "Discourses on Art," Institute de Investigaciones Estéticas, National University of Mexico.
1991.2
"Style Lines, Pilgrims and Patronage in Early Rajasthan," Second International Conference on Rajasthan, Rajasthan Studies Group and the University of Rajasthan, Udaipur.
1991.3
"Symbology and Architectural Practice, India," conference on "Architecture and Traditional Systems of Belief," Center for Architectural History and Theory, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
1991.4
"The Time of Form: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Indian Temple," M. Victor Leventritt Lecture, Harvard University Museums, Harvard University.
1991.5
Chaired panel on "Indian Temple Art," American Committee for South Asian Art Symposium, Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
1991.6
Respondent, symposium on "Environments for Housing," School of Architecture, University of California, San Diego.
1990.1
"Art History and South Asia Studies," seminar on "Whither Regional Studies?", South Asia Regional Studies Department,University of Pennsylvania.
1990.2
"Monumental Buddhist Architecture," Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
1990.3
"De- and Re-constructing the Indian Temple: Ritual and Real Time," international seminar on "Kâla (Time)," Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi.
1990.4
Discussant: "Hindu Temple Imagery: Beyond Iconography" panel, Association of Asian Studies annual meeting, Chicago.
1989.1
"Art History and Ethnohistory: Competing Constants," 18th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1989.2
"Indian Islam's Lotus Throne," international conference on "Regional Varieties of Islam in Premodern India." South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg.
1989.3
Invited participant in the concluding panel, "Indian and Comparative Examples," international conference on "Perceptions of India's Past from Ancient to Modern Times," American Institute of Indian Studies, Center for Art and Archaeology, Varanasi, India.
1988.1
"Is Style Central? The Case of Rajasthan," American Committee for South Asian Art Symposium. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.
1988.2
"Seeing Things in South Asia," panel on the "Humanities in South Asia," Social Science Research Council, New York.
1988.3
"Siva and Visnu as Masters of Yoga," symposium on "Ascetics and Asceticism in India: A Comparative Study," Department of Religion, University of Florida, Gainesville.
1987.1
"Temples, Tîrthas, and Pilgrimage: The Case of Osiâñ," international seminar on "Conservation of the Environment and Culture in Rajasthan," University of Rajasthan, India. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Rajasthan Studies Group, and Rajasthan Studies Association, Jaipur.
1987.2
Discussant, "The Making of Public Culture in India," panel organized by Carol Breckenridge, 16th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1986.1
"The Hindu Temple: Axis and Access," international seminar on "Inner and Outer Space," inauguration, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, India.
1986.2
"Reading Monuments and Seeing Texts," international symposium on "The Sastric Tradition," University of Heidelberg, Germany; chaired concluding session.
1986.3
"India: Levels of Meaning, Layers of Time," Getty-sponsored symposium on "Astronomy, Astrology, and the Arts," College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York; organized and co-chaired with Linda Seidel.
1985.1
"Asceticism and Monasticism as Reflected in Indian Architecture," research conference on "Monastic Life in the Christian and Hindu Traditions, a Comparative Study," Department of Religion, University of Florida, Gainesville.
1985.2
"Regions and Indian Architecture," panel on "Regionalism: Confines of Style in South Asian Art," College Art Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.
1985.3
"Formal and Systemic Origins of Nâgara Architecture," American Committee for South Asian Art Symposium, Nelson Gallery, Kansas City.
1984.1
"Measurement and Proportion in Indian Temple Architecture," panel on "Proportions in Architecture," College Art Association Annual Meeting, February. Toronto.
1984.2
Co-chaired panel on "New Field Methodologies" with Louise Cort, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Toronto.
1984.3
Five-lecture series on "The Morphology and Geometry of a Symbolic Architecture: The Hindu Temple," Department of Architecture elective week, University of Pennsylvania.
1983.1
Seminar on "Urban Studies in India," Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1983.2
Organized panel on "Methodologies of Indian Art History," Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
1983.3
Five-lecture series on "Geometry and Measure in Hindu Temple Architecture," Department of Architecture elective week, University of Pennsylvania.
1983.4
"The Udayapur Temple's Plan," American Committee for South Asian Art Symposium, Denver.
1983.5
"Art-Regions and Rajasthani Regionalism," in panel on "Rajasthani Regionalism," Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
1982.1
Chaired panel, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
1982.2
"Making a Temple's Plan," Association of Indian Art Historians national seminar, Ahmedabad, India.
1981.1
"Style and Idiom in the Art of Uparamala," Indian Art panel, South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1981.2
"Science as Technology's Constraint," Seminar on "Science and Technology in South Asia," University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1981.3
"The Hindu Temple," Manifestations of Shiva exhibition lecture series, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1981.4
"Siva's Forts in Central India," international symposium on "Discourses on Siva," Philadelphia; symposium convenor.
1981.5
"Constructing Hindu Temple Plans," American Committee for South Asian Art Symposium, Minneapolis.
1979.1
"Altars and Shelters in India: The Hindu Temple, North and South," Cooper Foundation Symposium on the Hindu Temple, Swarthmore College.
1979.2
"Dating Kusumâ," panel on "Problems in the Use of Dated Inscriptions," Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles; panel organizer.
1979.3
Chaired panel on "Pâla art," Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.
1978.1
"New Developments in the Study of Indian Art," College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York.
1978.2
"Indian Architecture," Haverford College, Gest Lecture Series.
1978.3
"The Hindu Temple, Symbol and Form," South Asia Studies University Museum Lecture Series, Philadelphia.
1977.1
"Shaman, Symbol, Emblem," in seminar on "Man and Animal in South Asia," University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
1977.2
"Hindu Temples in Stone," Seminar on Stone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
1976
"Regional Variations in Mâtrkâ Conventions," College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
1975
"Art in Western India in the Year 700," panel on "Indian Art in A.D. 700," Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco.
1974
Symposium on the Meaning of History in Art, University of Texas, Austin.
1973
"Pearl Roundels and Chinese Textile Design," Mid-Atlantic Region of the Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Glassboro, N.J.
1972
"A Plea for the Restoration of Aesthetics to the Consideration of Jaina Art," Seminar on Jaina Art, State Museum, Lucknow, India.
1970
"Essay in Indian Architecture," Frick Symposium, Frick Museum, New York.
I have lectured also at the University of California at Berkeley, Los Angeles, and San Diego, University of Chicago, Brown, Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, MIT, Colgate University, Brown, George Washington University, St. Lawrence University, Harvard University, Yale, Haverford College, Swarthmore College, Amherst College, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Washington and at the Laguna Gloria Museum (Austin), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Honolulu Academy of Arts, Prince of Wales Museum (Bombay), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Courtauld Institute (London), Friends of Indian Art (SOAS), Academy of Architecture (Bombay), the mid-Texas branch of the American Archaeological Association, The Asia Society (New York, Washington, and Houston), Boston Museum School, Misawa School of Interior Design (Tokyo), Philomathean Society, Oriental Club (Philadelphia), Lalit Kala Akademi (New Delhi), School of Architecture (Ahmedabad), for a “Perspectives” program in a series on Cosmology for WGBH-TV (Philadelphia), and for a program on Khajuraho temples for “Archaeology” on the Discovery channel

Travel

In residence, American Academy in Rome, March-June 2002.

India: March 2009, May 2006, June-July, Oct. 2005, Jan. 2001, 2000, Jan.-May, Dec. 1998, July-August 1996, Dec. 1994, March, 1992, Nov.-Dec. 1991, July-Aug., Nov.-Dec. 1990, Dec. 1989, Oct.-Dec. 1988, Jan. 1987, July-Aug., Nov. 1986, July-Aug. 1985, March 1984, July-Aug. 1983, Jan.-April 1982, Jan.-March, Aug. 1981, July-Aug. 1980, Dec. 1979, July-Aug. 1978, Dec. 1977, Dec. 1976-77, 1974, 1971-73, 1968-69, 1964-66; Pakistan: January 2011, April 2001, Feb. 2000, Oct.-Nov. 1998, Feb.1997, Dec.-Jan. 1995-96, 1993, 1976.

I have also travelled in Nepal, Ceylon, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Japan, Formosa, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, southern Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Scotland, Ireland, and England.

Other

Local/National/International Responsibilities

Exhibitions

Professional Membership

ADMINISTRATION:

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED:

2011
(with Darielle Mason) 3rd Annual Anne D’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Displaying India’s Art in the 21st Century,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, 30 September–2 October 2011.
2004
"International Seminar on the Salt Range Culture Zone, Pakistan," University of Pennsylvania and University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2003
coorganised South Asia Forum with Frank Matero and Deborah Klimburg-Salter: "Historical Reconstruction and Cultural Conservation," workshops of case studies and cultural conservation in Afghanistan
2001
International Seminar on "Traditional and Vernacular Architecture" sponsored by the Madras Craft Foundation, Dakshina Chitra Center, Chennai.
2000
Program Committee, American Council for Southern Asian Art Symposium 9, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
1999
Workshop for the Getty-sponsored multi-disciplinary project, "Continuities of Community Patronage: Pilgrimage Temples in Western India," History of Art and South Asia Regional Studies Departments, University of Pennsylvania
1995-96
"Art History and Ethnography: Art, Ritual, and Pilgrimage," thematic seminar for the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania
1995-96
"Defining Spaces: Islam and Cultural Geographies in South Asia," SARS seminar, University of Pennsylvania (co-organized with Margaret Mills, et. al.)
1992
"Creating Environments: Nature, Space, and Form," UCSD Conversations, University of California, San Diego, School of Architecture.
1985-86
"Astronomy, Astrology, and the Arts," symposium sponsored by the J. Paul Getty trust for the College Art Association; planning session, Los Angeles, 1985; public session, New York, 1986. (Organized and co-chaired with Linda Seidel.)
1985-86
"Making Things in South Asia, the Role of Artist and Craftsman," South Asia Studies Seminar, 1985-86, in association with the Festival of India.
1981
"Discourses on Shiva, a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery, "organized at the University of Pennsylvania as an international seminar in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art's "Manifestations of Shiva" exhibition.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS:

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS:

2010
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Short Term Lecture and Research Fellowship, 2011.
2005.1
Fulbright-Hays' "Cultural Diversity in India's Democracy" GPA teacher-travel grant (with Jody Chavez, Assistant Director, University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center).
2003.1
Office of Education, National Resource Center grant, 2003-2006.
2003.2
University Research Foundation, "Cultural History of the Western Himalayas: Architecture."
2001
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, "Scholar in Residence," Overseas Research Center, Islamabad.
2000
Canadian Center for Architecture, travel grant to coordinate an international seminar, "Traditional and Vernacular Architecture," at the Dakshina Chitra, Chennai.
1999.1
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, research and travel grant for Kafirkot Archaeological Project.
1999.2
South Asia Regional Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania, grant for archaeological excavation, Kafirkot and Amb.
1996-99
J. Paul Getty Trust Interpretive Research Program grant for a multidisciplinary project on "Continuities of Community Patronage: Pilgrimage Temples in Western India," with L. A. Babb & John E. Cort.
1997.1
University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, grant for Salt Range Temples Project.
1996.1
American Institute of Pakistan Studies, research and travel grant, Salt Range Temple project.
1996.2
Center for the Advanced Study of India, summer travel grant in association with the "Continuities of Community Patronage" project.
1996.3
Department of Archaeology, Government of Pakistan, three-year license for integrated study of Hindu-Sahi sights (1996-98).
1994.1
Center for the Advanced Study of India award for preparation of a thematic seminar on "Art, Ritual, and Patronage" and a research initiative on "Continuities of Community Patronage" in western India.
1994.2
University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation summer and research awards for "Documentation of Salt-Range Temples."
1993
Travel grant to Pakistan, Penn/Peshawar exchange, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania.
1992
Visiting Research Professor, School of Architecture and Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego.
1991
British Council, partial travel subvention for "Cosmos" seminar, Edinburgh.
1990
Indo-U.S. Subcommission travel grant for "Time" seminar, IGNCA, Delhi.
1988-91
National Endowment for the Humanities, Reference Materials Program, "Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture," editing and archive development renewal grant.
1988
American Institute of Indian Studies, short-term research grant.
1986
Smithsonian Institution Counterpart Currencies Program, publication subvention for the Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, Vol. II, pt. 1.
1986
Smithsonian Institution, Counterpart Currencies Program, travel grant for American Institute of Indian Studies' delegates to the inauguration of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi.
1985-88
National Endowment for the Humanities, "Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture" editing and archive development renewal grant.
1983
Smithsonian Institution, Counterpart Currencies Program, publication subvention for Discourses on Siva: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery.
1983
University Research Foundation grant for preparation of "Discourses on Siva" manuscript.
1982-85
National Endowment for the Humanities, "Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture," renewal grant.
1981
Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission travel subvention grant for international participants in the "Discourses on Siva" symposium.
1981
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Conferences Grant, "Discourses on Siva: a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery."
1980
Smithsonian Institution, project development grant for Documentation of Monuments in Pakistan.
1980-82
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Materials grant, "Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture," editing and for development of the photo-archive facility, University of Pennsylvania.
1978
University of Pennsylvania Subcommittee on Faculty Grants and Awards Summer Research Fellowship for continuation of a study of Indian temple plans.
1976
U.S. Fulbright Foundation Senior Research Fellowship, United States Educational Foundation, New Delhi, India, 1976-77.
1975
National Committee on United States-China Relations, Chinese Archaeological Exhibition Travel Grant.
1975
University Research Institute, University of Texas, Austin, publication subvention grant.
1974
University Research Institute, University of Texas, Austin, travel/research grant.
Graduate and Undergraduate:

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2010
Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan (Brill Indological Library 35), Leiden & Boston: Brill.
2008
Desert Temples: Sacred Centers of Rajasthan in Historical, Art-Historical, and Social Contexts. Co-authered with Lawrence A. Babb and John E. Cort. Jaipur: Rawat Publications.

Edited Books

2003
Traditional and Vernacular Architecture. Coordinated by Michael W. Meister with Deborah Thiagarajan; edited by Subashree Krishnaswami. Madras: Madras Craft Foundation.
2002
Multiple Histories: Culture and Society in the Study of Rajasthan. Edited by Lawrence A. Babb, Varsha Joshi, and Michael W. Meister. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
2000
Ethnography and Personhood: Notes From the Field. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications.
1995.1
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Essays in Architectural Theory. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Oxford University Press.
1995.2
Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal, with Pika Ghosh. Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum.
1992
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Essays in Early Indian Architecture. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Oxford University Press.
1991
Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture (vol. II, pt. 2), North India: Period of Early Maturity, text and plates volumes. Edited by Michael W. Meister and M. A. Dhaky. Princeton: Princeton University Press and Delhi: Oxford University Press.
1988
Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, (vol. II, pt. 1) North India, Foundation of North Indian Style, text and plate volumes. Edited by Michael W. Meister, M. A. Dhaky, and Krishna Deva. Princeton: Princeton University Press and Delhi: Oxford University Press.
1988
Making Things in South Asia: The Role of Artist and Craftsman. Philadelphia: South Asia Regional Studies Department.
1986
Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, (vol. 1, pt. 2), South India, Upper Dravidadesa, Early Phase, text and plates volumes. Edited by Michael W. Meister and M. A. Dhaky. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Delhi: Oxford University Press.
1984
Discourses on Siva, Proceedings of a Symposium on the Nature of Religious Imagery. Edited and with an Introduction by Michael W. Meister. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Bombay: Vakils, Feffer & Simons.
1983
Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, (vol. I, pt. 1) South India, Lower Dravidadesa, text and plates volumes. Edited by Michael W. Meister, coordinated by M. A. Dhaky. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Delhi: Oxford University Press.
1981
M. A. Dhaky, Complexities Surrounding the Vimalavasahi Temple at Mount Abu, trans. by Miki and Madhavi Desai; ed. Michael W. Meister. Philadelphia: South Asia Regional Studies Department, University of Pennsylvania, Occasional Papers Series.

Articles

2013.1
“Conservation and Studies at Gumbat-Balo Khale Site (District Swat, Tahsil Barikot),” M. Meister and Luca M. Olivieri, Journal of Asian Civilization.
2013.2
“Seeds and Mountains: The Cosmogony of Temples in South Asia.” Heaven on Earth, Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World. Edited by Deena Ragavan. Oriental Institute Seminars 9, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: Chicago.
2012.1
“Shadow-Covered Devalayas.” Pakistan Heritage 3 (2011): 113–121.
2011.1
“‘Indo-Aryan’ Temples: Noodling Seventh-Century Nagara.” Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art new series 27: 133–139.
2011.2
“Indus Temples and Saurashtra.” Ancient Pakistan 18: 63–78.
2011.3
“Multiplicity on the Frontier: Imagining the Warrior Goddess.” Pakistan Heritage 2: 87–92.
2010.1
“Abstracting Figuration: Akbar Padamsee’s Body in India.” In Akbar Padamsee: Work in Language. Edited by Bhanumati Padamsee and Annapurna Garimella, pp. 98–117. Mumbai: Marg Publications.
2010.2
“Archaeology in Present Time” (with L. A. Babb and John E. Cort). In Rajpootana-Rajasthan: Essays by and in Memory/Honour of B. Hooja. Edited by Rakesh Hooja & Rima Hooja, Jaipur.
2010.3
“Desert Temples: Archaeology in Present Time.” (with L. A. Babb and John E. Cort). In South Asian Archaeology 2007, Volume II: Historic Periods. Edited by Pierfrancesco Callieri and Luco Colliva. BAR International Series 2133, pp. 19–26. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
2010.4
“Gumbat, Talash Valley, Dir: An Indus Temple in Greater Gandhara." Gandharan Studies 4: 245–54.
2010.5
“Palaces, Kings, and Sages: World Rulers and World Renouncers in Early Buddhism.” In From Turfan to Ajanta: Festschrift for Dieter Schlingloff on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday. Edited by Eli Franco and Monika Zin, 2 vols., pp. 651–70. Bhairahawa, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute.
2010.6
“Two Hindu Temple Doors in Silver Repousse.” In SUNNYLANDS: Art and Architecture of the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, California. Edited by David G. DeLong, pp. 159–63. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
2009.1
“Exploring Kafirkot: When is a Rose Apple Not a Rose?” Pakistan Heritage 1: 109–28.
2009.2
“Gaursikhara: Temple as an Ocean of Story.” Artibus Asiae 69.2: 295–315.
2009.3
“Himalayan Saga, A Brief Reflection.” Preface to Melissa R. Kerin, Artful Beneficence: Selections from the David. R. Nalin Himalayan Art Collection, pp. xvii–xviii. New York: Rubin Museum of Art.
2009.4
“India’s Angkor: Siva’s Temple at Masrur.” In Kaladarpana - The Mirror of Indian: Art Essays in Memory of Shri Krishna Deva. Edited by Arundhati Banerji and Devangana Desai. New Delhi: Aryan Books International.
2008.1
"Building a Temple." In Babb, Cort, Meister, Desert Temples (above), pp. 63-78.
2008.2
"Mapping Masrur's Iconography." In Prajnadhara: Essays on Asian Art, History, Epigraphy and Culture in Honour of Gouriswar Bhattacharya, 2 Vol .Edited by Gerd J R Mevissen & Arundhati Banerji. New Delhi: Kaveri Book Service, 2008.
2008.3
"Temple Restoration and Transformation." In South Asian Archaeology 1999, ed. E. M. Raven, pp. 415-426. Groningen: Egbert Forsten.
2008.4
"When is a Rose Apple Not a Rose?" Journal of Ancient Indian History 24 (2007-08): 43-51.
2008.5
"Indian Islam's Lotus Throne" and "The 'Two-and-a-Half-Day' Mosque" reprinted in Piety and Politics in the Early Indian Mosque, ed. Finbarr Barry Flood, pp. 225-230, 253-262. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
2007.1
"Early Architecture and Its Transformations: New Evidence for Vernacular Origins for the Indian Temple." In The Temple in South Asia, ed. Adam Hardy (vol. 2, proceedings of the 18th conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists), London: British Association for South Asian Studies, The British Academy, pp. 1-19.
2007.2
"Image Iconopraxis and Iconoplasty in South Asia." Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 51: 13-32.
2006.1
"Access and Axes of Indian Temples." Thresholds 32: 33-35.
2006.2
“Indian Temple Architecture (Early Phase up to 750 A.D.).” In The Cultural Heritage of India, vol. VII (part one). Edited by Kapila Vatsyayan, pp. 103–114. Kolkata: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture.
2006.3
"Mountain Temples and Temple-Mountains: Masrur." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65.1: 26-49.
2006.4
"Obscure Objects of Desire." In Vanamala Festschrift A.J. Gail. Edited by Gerd J.R. Mevissen and Klaus Bruhn, pp. 118-24. Berlin: Weidler.
2006.5
"Pattan Munara: Minar or Mandir?" In Hari Smiriti: Studies in Art, Archaeology and Indology, Papers Presented in Memory of Dr. H. Sarkar. Edited by Arundhati Banerji, pp. 113-21. New Delhi: Kaveri Books.
2005.1
"Archaeology at Kafirkot," with Abdur Rehman. In Catherine Jarrige and Vincent Lefevre, ed., South Asian Archaeology 2001, pp. 571-78. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations.
2005.2
"Fig Gardens of Amb-Sharif, Folklore and Archaeology." East and West 55: 201-16.
2005.3
"Kramrisch, Stella." In Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade, 2nd ed., New York: Macmillan.
2005.4
“The Problem of Platform Extensions at Kafirkot North.” Ancient Pakistan 16, 41-48.
2005.5
"Relics, Signs, Patrons, and Learning." Introduction to Chadreyi Basu, Displaying Many Faces, Art and Gandharan Identity: Selections from the David R. Nalin Collection. Nalini International Publications [Philadelphia].
2005.6
"Temple: Buddhist Temple Compounds, South Asia." In Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade, 2nd ed., New York: Macmillan.
2005.7
"Water in a Desert Landscape." In South Asian Archaeology 2003, Bonn: Deutsche Archäologische Institut, pp. 577-84. (Reprinted in Desert Temples above.)
2004.1
"Discoveries on the Indus." In The Ananda-vana of Indian Art: Dr. Anand Krishna Felicitation Volume, ed. Naval Krishna & Manu Krishna.Varanasi: Indica.
2004.2
"Notes Toward the Study of Representations of Early Indian Architecture, Kanganhalli." In Prasadam: Recent Researches on Archaeology, Art, Architecture and Culture (Professor B. Rajendra Prasad Festschrift). ed. S.S. Ramachandra Murty, D. Bhaskara Murti, & D. Kiran Kranth Choudary. New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, pp. 120-24.
2003.1
"Crossing Lines, Architecture in Early Islamic South Asia." Res, Anthropology and Aesthetics 43: 117-30.
2003.2
"Evidence for Early Buddhist Architecture from Kanganhalli." Ancient Pakistan 25 [2002]: 61-64.
2003.3
"Formation of Regional States c. 750-1300." In Art of Inda, Prehistory to the Present," ed. Frederick M. Asher. Chicago and New Delhi: Encyclopædia Britannica, pp. 56-66.
2003.4
"Mountains and Cities in Cambodia: Temple Architecture and Divine Vision." Journal of Hindu Studies 4, 3: 261-268.
2003.5
"Osian." In Art of India, Prehistory to the Present, ed. Frederick M. Asher. Chicago and New Delhi: Encyclopædia Britannica, pp. 441-42.
2003.6
"Santos, Adèle Naudé." In R. Stephen Sennott (ed.), Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture, New York and London: Routledge.
2003.7
"Vastupurusamandalas: Planning in the Image of Man." In Gudrun Buhnemann, ed., Mandalas and Yantras in the Hindu Traditions, Leiden: Brill, pp. 251-290 [revised edition, Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2007].
2003.8
"Vernacular Architecture and the Rhetoric of Re-making." In Traditional and Vernacular Architecture. Madras: Madras Craft Foundation, pp. 9-15.
2002.1
"Giving Up and Taking On: The Body in Ritual." Res, Anthropology and Aesthetics 41: 92-103.
2002.2
"Light on the Lotus: Temple Decoration or Essential Form?" In Multiple Histories: Culture and Society in the Study of Rajasthan, ed. Lawrence A. Babb, Varsha Joshi & Michael W. Meister. Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications, pp. 232-53.
2002.3
"Navigating Hudson." Journal of Vaishnava Studies 11.1: 45-50.
2001.1
"The 'Two-and-a-Half Day' Mosque" (reprint of 1972.2). In Architecture in Medieval India, Forms, Contexts, Histories, ed. Monica Juneja. Delhi: Permanent Black, pp. 303-14.
2000.1
"Architectural Originality in the Punjab." Kalâ, Journal of Indian Art History Congress 6 (1999-2000): 27-35.
2000.2
"Chronology of Temples in the Salt Range, Pakistan." In South Asian Archaeology 1997, ed. Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe De Marco. Rome: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, pp. 1321-39.
2000.3
"Discovery of a New Temple on the Indus." Expedition, the Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 42.1: 37-46.
2000.4
"Ethnography, Art History, and the Life of Temples." In Ethnography and Personhood: Notes From the Field, Jaipur and New Delhi: Rawat Publications, pp. 17-45.
2000.5
"Ethnography, Personality, and the Multiplicity of Truth," preface to Ethnography and Personhood: Notes From the Field, pp. 11-14.
2000.6
"Spink on Wheels." Ars Orientalis, v. supp. 1:19-20.
2000.7
"Too Late to Talâ." In Riddle of Indian Iconography: Zetetic on Rare Icon from Tâlâ, ed. L.S. Nigam. Delhi: Sharada Publishing House.
1999.1
"Hakubhai and Stella Kramrisch." In Invisible Order, Tribute to Haku Shah, ed. Eberhard Fischer, pp. 81-83. New Delhi: Art Indus.
1999.2
"Style Lines, Pilgrims and Patronage in Early Rajasthan." In Religion, Ritual & Royalty, ed. N. K. Singhi and Rajendra Joshi, pp. 185-96. Jaipur: Rawat Publications,
1999.3
"Temples of the Salt Range." In Religion, Ritual & Royalty, ed. N. K. Singhi and Rajendra Joshi, pp. 132-39. Jaipur: Rawat Publications.
1998.1
"Gandhâra-Nâgara Temples of the Salt Range and the Indus." Kalâ, the Journal of Indian Art History Congress 4 (1997-98): 45-52.
1998.2
"Gurjara-Pratîhâra Feudatories and Successors in Mâlava." In Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, II.3, Beginnings of Medieval Idiom, pp. 335-44.
1998.3
"India, Art and Architecture of." The New Book of Knowledge, pp. 135-40.
1998.4
"Louis Renou, 'The Vedic House'." Res Anthropology and Aesthetics 34: 141-61.
1998.5
"Sweetmeats or Corpses? Community, Conversion, and Sacred Places." In Open Boundaries, Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History, ed. John Cort, Albany: State University of New York. (Reprinted in Desert Temples above.)
1998.6
"Temples of the Indus & the Salt Range, A Fresh Probe (1995-97)," with Abdur Rehman and Farid Khan. The Pakistan Heritage Society Newsletter 1: 2-5.
1997.1
"Experience: thoughts on light, landscape, and human experience; a personal statement." Exerpts of a conversation with Adele Naude Santos. Perspecta 28: 78-93.
1997.2
"Malot and the Originality of the Punjab." Punjab Journal of Archaeology and History 1: 31-36.
1997.3
"Reassessing the Text." In Contemporary Architecture and City Form: The South Asian Paradigm, ed. Farooq Ameen, pp.88-100. Bombay: Marg Publications.
1997.4
"Regions and Indian Architecture." Nirgrantha 2: 87-91.
1996.1
"Art and Architecture," with other authors. In History of Humanity. Vol. III, From the Seventh Century BC to the Seventh Century AD., ed. J. Herrmann and E. Zurcher, pp. 89-107. Paris: UNESCO.
1996.2
"Art and Hindu Asceticism: Siva and Vishnu as Masters of Yoga." In Art and Archaeology of South Asia: Essays Dedicated to N. G. Majumdar, ed. Debala Mitra, pp. 315-21. Calcutta: Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Government of West Bengal.
1996.3
"Indian Subcontinent, Architecture, Introduction: (i) Forms, (ii) Terminology, (iii) Guilds and Craftsmen." In The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 15, pp. 235-45. New York: Grove.
1996.4
"Indian Subcontinent, Architecture, 6th-11th-Century Indigenous and Traditional Architecture: Rajasthan and Gujara," with Darielle Mason. The Dictionary of Art, Vol. 15, pp. 266-75. New York: Grove.
1996.5
"Man and Man-Lion: The Philadelphia Narasimha." Artibus Asiae 56: 291-301.
1996.6
"Ritual and Real Time: De- and Re-constructing the Indian Temple." In Concepts of Time: Ancient and Modern, ed. Kapila Vatsysyan, pp. 373-387. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
1996.7
"Temples Along the Indus." Expedition 38.3: 41-54.
1995.1
"Architecture as Ornament, Essential Form." In Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Essays in Architectural Theory, ed. Michael W. Meister, pp. xiii-xx. New Delhi: Oxford University Press and IGNCA.
1995.2
"Categories of Utility." In Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal, ed. Michael W. Meister. Newark: The Newark Museum.
1995.3
"Indian Seeing and Western Knowing: An Art-Historian's Perspective." In Srî Nâgâbhinandanam (Dr. M. S. Nagaraja Rao Festschrift), ed. L. K. Srinivasan and S. Nagaraju, vol. 1, pp. 157-70. Bangalore: M.S.Nagaraja Rao Felicitation Committee
1995.4
"Seeing and Knowing: Semiology, Semiotics and the Art of India." In Los Discursos Sobre el Arte, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, pp. 193-207.
1995.5
"Sweetmeats or Corpses? Art History and Ethnohistory." Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 27.
1995.6
"Temples, Tirthas, and Pilgrimage, the Case of Osian." In Folk, Faith & Feudalism, ed. N. K. Singhi & Rajendra Joshi, pp. 67-75. Rawat Publications: Jaipur.
1995.7
"The Unity and Gravity of an Elemental Architecture." In Prakrti: The Integral Vision, 5 vols., ed. Kapila Vatsyayan; vol. 3, The Agamic Tradition and the Arts, ed. Bettina Baumer. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld.
1994.1
"Art Regions and Modern Rajasthan." In The Idea ofnRajasthan, Explorations in Regional Identity, ed. Karine Schomer, Joan Erdman, Deryck O. Lodrick, & Loyd Rudolph, 2 vols., vol. 1, pp. 143-76. New Delhi: Manohar.
1994.2
"The Membrane of Tolerance: Middle and Modern India." In Art, the Integral Vision, ed. B. N. Saraswati, S.C. Malik, & Madhu Khanna, pp. 289-98. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld.
1993.1
"Fragments From a Divine Cosmology: Unfolding Forms on India's Temple Walls." In Gods, Guardians, and Lovers, Temple Sculptures from North India A.D. 700-1200, ed. Vishakha N. Desai and Darielle Mason, pp. 94-115. New York: The Asia Society.
1993.2
"Indian Islam's Lotus Throne." In Islam and Indian Regions, ed. A. Dallapiccola, pp. 445-53. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. [reprinted 2008.5]
1993.3
"Style and Idiom in the Art of Uparamala." In Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture 10 (Essays in Honor of Oleg Grabar):344-54.
1992.1
"The Language and Process of Early Indian Architecture." In Ananda K. Coomaraswamy: Essays in Early Indian Architecture, ed. Michael W. Meister, pp. xvii-xxviii. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
1992.2
"Symbology and Architectural Practice in India." In Sacred Architecture in the Traditions of India, China, Judaism and Islam (Cosmos 8), ed. Emily Lyle, pp. 5-24. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
1992.3
"The Visual in South Asian Culture." In Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay 62-63 (1987-88): 66-72.
1991.1
"Amber's Antiquities: Text and Context." In Pathways to Literature, Art and Archaeology, ed. Chandramani Singh and Neelima Vashishta. Jaipur: Publication Scheme, Vol. 2, pp. 192-97; pl. pp. 10-15.
1991.2
"Cahamanas of Sakambhari: Phase I. " In Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, II.2, Period of Early Maturity, pp. 222-45; pls. 497-556.
1991.3
"Gurjara-Partiharas and Their Maurya Feudatories in Malava." In E.I.T.A., II.2, pp. 299-317; pls. 684-733.
1991.4
"The Hindu Temple: Axis and Access." In Concepts of Space, Ancient and Modern, ed. Kapila Vatsyayan, New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts & Abhinav Publications, pp. 269-80.
1991.5
"India, Art and Architecture." In The New Book of Knowledge, pp. 135-39. Grolier Educational: Bethel, CT.
1991.6
"Mauryas of Uparamala and Medapata." In E.I.T.A., II. 2, pp. 271-98; pls. 608-83.
1991.7
"Pratîharas of Jabalipura and Kanyakubja: Phase I." In E.I.T.A., II. 2, pp. 153-215; pls. 356-489.
1991.8
"Pratiharas of Kanyakubja and Their Feudatories." In E.I.T.A., II.2, pp. 246-70; pls. 557-607.
1991.9
"Pratîharas of Mandavyapura." In E.I.T.A., II.2, pp. 119-52; pls. 270-355.
1991.10
"A Recently Discovered Step-well and Questions of Cahamana Patronage in the Eighth Century A.D." In Aksayanivi, Essays Presented to Dr. Debala Mitra in Admiration of Her Scholarly Contributions (Biblioteca Indo-Buddhica, No. 88), ed. Gouriswar Bhattacharya. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications.
1990.1
"Asceticism and Monasticism as Reflected in Indian Art." In Monastic Life in the Christian and Hindu Traditions, ed. A. Creel & V. Narayanan. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 219-44.
1990.2
"De- and Re-constructing the Indian Temple." Art Journal 49 (New Approaches to South Asian Art): 395-400.
1989.1
"Mystifying Monuments." Seminar (special issue entitled "Mythifying History: a symposium on the making of myths claiming to be historical") 364: 24-27; reprinted in Hindi in Itihâsa kî Punarvyâkhyâ, ed. Romila Thapar, New Delhi: Râjakamala Prakâsana, 1991.
1989.2
"Prasada as Palace: Kutina Origins of the Nagara Temple." Artibus Asiae 49: 254-280.
1989.3
"Reading Monuments and Seeing Texts." In Sastric Traditions in Indian Arts, ed. A. Dallapiccola. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2 vols. I, pp. 167-73; II. pp. 94-108 & pls. 81- 88.
1989.4
"Temples, Tîrthas, and Pilgrimage: The Case of Osian." In Ratna-Chandrikâ, ed. D. Handa & A. Agrawal. New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, 275-82.
1988.1
"Adam's House and Hermits' Huts," conversation with Joseph Rykwert. Res 15: 27-33.
1988.2
"Aulikaras, Mauryas, and Minor Chieftains." In the Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, II. 1, pp. 139-49.
1988.3
"Capotkatas of Bhillamala." In the Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, II. 1, pp. 207-14.
1988.4
"Coomaraswamy's 'Early Indian Architecture, IV: Huts and Related Temple Types'." Res, 15: 5-26.
1988.5
"Pratihara Period: Mandapika Shrines," with Krishna Deva, Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, II.1, pp. 151-60.
1987.1
"Silk, Technology and Central Asia." In Kusumâñjali: New Interpretation of Indian Art & Culture, 2 vols., ed. M.S. Nagaraja Rao, pp. 93-97 and plates. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan.
1987.2
"Temple: Buddhist Temple Compounds," with Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. In The Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade, vol. 14, pp. 373-79. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
1987.3
"Temple: Hindu Temples." In The Encyclopædia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade, vol. 14, pp. 368-73.
1986.1
"The Hero as Yogin: A Vîrastambha from Chittor." In Dimensions of Indian Art, 2 vols., ed. Lokesh Chandra and Jyotindra Jain, pp. 283-86 and plates. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan.
1986.2
"On the Development of a Morphology for a Symbolic Architecture: India." Res, Anthropology and Aesthetics, 12:33-50.
1986.3
"Regional Variations in Matrka Conventions." Artibus Asiae 47: 233-62.
1985.1
"Historiography of Temples on the Chandrabhaga, Reconsidered." In Indian Epigraphy, Its Bearing on the History of Art, ed. G.S. Gai and Frederick S. Asher, pp. 121-24. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
1985.2
"Measurement and Proportion in Hindu Temple Architecture." Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 10: 248-58.
1985.3
"Symbol and Surface: Masonic and Pillared Wall-Structures in North India." Artibus Asiae 46: 129-48.
1985.4
"Temple Building in South Asia: Science as Technology's Constraint." In Science and Technology in India (Proceedings of the South Asia Seminar 1981-82), ed. Peter Gaeffke and David A. Utz, pp. 31-36. Philadelphia: Department of South Asia Regional Studies.
1984
"Siva's Forts in Central India: Temples in Daksina Kosala and Their 'Dæmonic' Plans." In Discourses on Siva, ed. Michael W. Meister, pp. 119-43. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
1983.1
"Bithu: Individuality and Idiom." Ars Orientalis 13: 169-86.
1983.2
"Geometry and Measure in Indian Temple Plans: Rectangular Temples." Artibus Asiae 44: 266-96.
1983.3
"The Udayesvara Temple Plan." In Srînidhih, Perspectives in Indian Archaeology, Art and Culture, Shri K. R. Srinivasan Festschrift, pp. 85-93. Madras: New Era Publications.
1982.1
"Analysis of Temple Plans: Indor." Artibus Asiae 43: 302-20.
1982.2
"Indian Sculptures from Rajasthan in the Fogg Museum." In Fogg Art Museum, Annual Report, 1976-1978, pp. 73- 85. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University.
1981.1
"Dârra and the Early Gupta Tradition." In Chhavi II, Rai Krishna Dasa Felicitation Volume, ed. Anand Krishna, pp. 192-205. Banaras: Bharat Kala Bhavan.
1981.2
"Display as Structure and Revelation: On Seeing the Shiva Exhibition." Studies in Visual Communication 7.4: 84-89.
1981.3
"Forest and Cave: Temples at Candrabhaga and Kansuan." Archives of Asian Art 34: 56-73.
1981.4
"Forest and Cave: The Temples at Chandrabhaga and Kansuan." In Cultural Contours of India, ed. V.S. Srivastava, pp. 156-60. New Delhi: Abhinav Prakashan.
1981.5
"Mundesvari: Ambiguity and Certainty in the Analysis of a Temple Plan." In Kaladarsana, American Studies in the Art of India, ed. Joanna G. Williams, pp. 77-90. New Delhi: Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.
1981.6
"Sub-Urban Planning and Rock-Cut Architecture in India." In Madhu, Recent Researches in Indian Archaeology and Art History, ed. M. S. Nagaraja Rao, pp. 157-64. Delhi: Agam Kala Prakashan.
1979.1
"Juncture and Conjunction: Punning and Temple Architecture." Artibus Asiae 41: 226-34.
1979.2
"Altars and Shelters in India." aarp (Art and Archaeology Research Papers) 16: 39.
1979.3
"Mandala and Practice in Nâgara Architecture in North India." Journal of the American Oriental Society 99.2: 204- 19.
1978.1
"Construction and Conception: Mandapika Shrines of Central India." East and West, new series 26: 409-18.
1978.2
"Shaman, Symbol, Emblem: Man and Animal in South Asian Art." In Symbols, Subsistence and Social Structure, the Ecology of Man and Animal in South Asia (summaries of papers from the South Asia Seminar 1977-78), ed. Franklin C. Southworth, pp. 64-65. Philadelphia: South Asia Regional Studies.
1978.3
"The Sivaite Surya Temple Near Tûsa." Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, Moti Chandra Commemoration Volume: 60-65.
1976.1
"A Field Report on Temples at Kusuma." Archives of Asian Art 29: 23-46.
1976.2
"Jain Temples in Central India." In Aspects of Jaina Art and Architecture, ed. U. P. Shah and M. A. Dhaky, pp. 223-41. Ahmedabad: L. D. Institute.
1976.3
"Phamsana in Western India." Artibus Asiae 38: 167-88.
1974.1
"Detective Archaeology: A Preliminary Report on the Siva Temple at Kusuma." Archives of Asian Art 27: 76-91.
1974.2
"A Note on the Superstructure of the Marhia Temple." Artibus Asiae 36: 81-88.
1973.1
"Ama, Amrol, and Jainism in Gwalior Fort." Journal of the Oriental Institute 22: 354-58.
1973.2
"An Essay in Indian Architecture." Roopa Lekha 41: 35-47.
1973.3
"Krsna Lila at Wadhwan and Osian." Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, new series, 5: 28-35.
1972.1
"A Plea for the Restoration of Aesthetics to the Consideration of Jaina Art." Bulletin of Museums and Archaeology in U.P. 9: 19-22.
1972.2
"The Two-and-a-Half Day Mosque." Oriental Art, new series, 18: 57-63. [reprinted 2001.1, 2008.5]
1971
"The Pearl Roundel in Chinese Textile Design." Ars Orientalis 7: 255-67.
1968
"The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nazli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection." Oriental Art, new series, 14: 107-13.

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Book Reviews

2011
"Parul Pandya Dhar, The Torana in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
2008
"Adam Hardy, The Temple Architecture of India." caa.reviews.
2007
"Sean Anderson. Flames of Devotion: Oil Lamps from South and Southeast Asia and the Himalayas." Museum Anthropology Review.
2006
"M. A. Dhaky, The Indian Temple Traceries." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 65.4: 614-15.
2004
"James S. Crouch, A Bibliography of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy." caa.reviews.
2003
"Mubashir Hasan, Birds of the Indus." Pakistan Studies News 5, no.10: 23.
2002
"Julia A. B. Hegewald, Water Architecture in South Asia, A Study of Types, Developments and Meanings." South Asian Studies 18: 134-35.
1999
"Laxman S. Thakur, The Architectural Heritage of Himachal Pradesh: Origin and Development of Temple Styles." The Indian Historical Review 26: 187-91.
1993
"Kirit Mankodi, The Queen's Stepwell at Patan." Artibus Asiae 53: 496-98.
1991
"Vidya Dehejia, Art of the Imperial Cholas." Asian Thought and Society.
1988.1
"John M. Fritz, George Michell, and M.S. Nagaraja Rao, Where Kings and Gods Meet." Journal of the American Oriental Society.
1988.2
"M. Postel, A. Neven, K. Mankodi, Antiquities of Himachal." JAOS.
1987.1
"Thomas E. Donaldson, Hindu Temple Art of Orissa." Journal of Asian Studies 46: 428-30.
1987.2
"Sara L. Schastok. The Sâmalâjî Sculptures and 6th Century Art in Western India." JAOS 107: 367-68.
1985
"Roshen Alkazi, Ancient Indian Costume." JAOS 105: 806.
1982.1
"H. Goetz, Rajput Art and Architecture." South Asia.
1982.2
"M.S. Nagarajarao, Kiratarjuniyam in Indian Art." JAOS 102: 236.
1982.3
"Ulrich Wiesner, Nepalese Temple Architecture, Its Characteristics and Its Relationship to Indian Development." JAOS 102: 236-37.
1981.1
"Percy Brown, Indian Painting Under the Moghals; Pramod Chandra The Tuti-Nama; Milo Cleveland Beach, The Grand Mogul, Imperial Painting in India 1600-1660." JAOS 101: 475-76.
1981.2
"Nakshabi, trans. and ed. by Muhammed Simsar, The Cleveland Museum of Art's Tûtî-Nâma." JAOS 101: 246-47.
1981.3
"Chandramani Singh, Textiles in the Sawai Man Singh Museum, Jaipur." JAOS 101: 476-77.
1980.1
"A.K. Coomaraswamy, Selected Papers, ed. Roger Lipsey." JAOS 100: 153-54.
1980.2
"Vidya Dehejia, Early Stone Temples of Orissa." JAOS 100: 155-57.
1980.3
"Stella Kramrisch, The Hindu Temple and George Michell, The Hindu Temple, an Introduction to its Meaning and Forms." Art Bulletin 62: 180-82.
1980.4
"Roger Lipsey, Coomaraswamy: His Life and Work." JAOS 100: 151-53.
1980.5
"George Michell, Early Western Calukyan Temples." JAOS 100: 154-55.
1980.6
"Jose Pereira, Monolithic Jinas." Journal of Asian Studies 39: 623-24.
1979.1
"Asok K. Bhattacharya, Technique of Indian Painting." JAOS 99: 525.
1979.2
"Ananda Coomaraswamy, Rajput Painting." JAOS 99: 524-25.
1979.3
"M. A. Dhaky, The Indian Temple Forms in Karnâta Inscriptions and Architecture." JAOS 99: 525-26.
1979.4
"Jacques Dumarcay, Borobudur." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 38: 275.
1979.5
"Aschwin de Lippe, Indian Medieval Sculpture." Asia 1: 389.
1979.6
"O. Viennot, Temples de l'Inde Centrale et Occidentale." JAOS 99: 357-58.
1978.1
"Philip Rawson, Erotic Art of India." South Asia, new series, 1: 115-16.
1978.2
"O. Viennot, Temples de l'Inde Centrale et Occidentale." Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, new series, 9: 57-58.
1978.3
"Shiela Wiener, Ajanta: Its Place in Buddhist Art." JAOS 98: 563-64.
1977
"A Ghosh, ed., Jaina Art and Architecture, and U. P. Shah and M. A. Dhaky, eds., Aspects of Jaina Art and Architecture." Journal of Asian Studies 37: 158-59.
1976.1
"S.R. Balasubrahmanyam, Early Chola Temples, B. Venkataram, Laddigam, B. Natarajan, The City of the Cosmic Dance: Chidambaram." Journal of Asian Studies 36: 167-68.
1976.2
"Pramod Chandra, ed., Studies in Indian Temple Architecture." Artibus Asiae, 37: 254- 59.
1976.3
"James Harle, Gupta Sculpture." Journal of Asian Studies, 36: 166-67.
1974
"Anand Krishna, Malwa Painting." Oriental Art, new series, 20: 89-90.
1973
"Chhavi: Golden Jubilee Volume, Bharat Kala Bhavan." Oriental Art, new series, 19: 318.
1972.1
"Chhavi: Golden Jubilee Volume, Bharat Kala Bhavan." Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, new series, 4: 124-26.
1972.2
"Krishna Deva, Temples of North India, and J. Nanavati and M. A. Dhaky, The Maitraka and Saindhava Temples of Gujarat." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 31: 240.
1972.3
"J. Nanavati and M. A. Dhaky, The Maitraka and the Saindhava Temples of Gujarat." Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, new series, 4: 121-23.

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