CURRICULUM VITÆ
NAME:
Michael William Meister
Table of Contents:
- Harvard University, Ph.D., Fine Arts, 1974
- Harvard University, M.A., Fine Arts, 1971
- Harvard College, B.A. (honors), History and Literature, 1964
University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1979
- 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).
- 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
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.
Local/National/International Responsibilities
- American Institute of Indian Studies Board of Trustees, 2002-2010.
- Director, National Resource Center, South Asia, University of
Pennsylvania, 2002-04.
- Institute for International Education, National Selection Committee,
India. 2003-06.
- Indian Art Committee, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978 to
date.
- Contributing Editor, Res, Anthropology and
Aesthetics, 1987 to date.
- Editorial Advisor, Yale Dictionary of International
Architecture, ed. Nicholas Adams, 1998.
- Society of Architectural Historians' millenium tour, India's Architectural Traditions,
Ancient and Modern, 2000.
- Advisory Committee, The Asia Society Galleries, New York
City, 1992-94; Multimedia Committee, 1995-98.
- President, Oriental Club of Philadelphia, 1994-95.
- CONSALD, Association of Asian Studies,
1983-86.
- Editorial Board, Princeton University Press Encyclopedia
of Indian History, 1983-84.
- Nomination for AAS Board of Directors, 1983.
- Advisory Council of Scholars, South Asia Religious Art
Studies (SARAS), 1982- .
- Secretary/Treasurer, University Research Club, 1980-81.
- General Editor, Encyclopædia of Indian Temple
Architecture, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1978-92;
advisor, 1992-to date.
- Art and Archaeology Committee,
American Institute of Indian Studies, 1978-82; ex-officio member,
1982-92.
- Publications Committee, American Institute of Indian Studies,
1982-92.
- Board of Directors, American Committee for South Asian Art,
1976-79; 1983-86.
- Gupta Selection Committee, Archives of South Asian Art
Project,
American Committee for South Asian Art, 1973.
- Graduate Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, contributing research for "Myths, Religion and Ritual: Indian Art from the Koblenzer Collection," AllentownArt Museum, June-September 2010.
- "Multiple Modernities: India, 1905-2005,"
William Wood Gallery, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
June-December 2008, organised by a Halpern-Rogath Curatorial
Seminar, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, June-December 2008.
- "Jains as Temple Worshipers, Architecture and Planning,"
Architectural
Archives, University of Pennsylvania,
1999.
- Coordinator, "Cooking for the Gods," The Newark Museum, 1992-96.
- Advisor, "Gods, Guardians, and Lovers," The Asia Society, New
York,
1990-93.
- Symposium coordinator, "The Manifestations of Shiva" exhibition,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981.
- Entries on Hindu medieval sculpture,
Homburger catalogue, Fogg Art
Museum, 1971.
- "Hindu Icons," Dunster House India Seminar, Fogg Art Museum,
Harvard University 1969.
- American Council for Southern Asian Art.
- Association for Asian Studies.
- College Art Association.
- Oriental Club of Philadelphia.
- Rajasthan Studies Group, AAS.
- South Asia Religious Art Studies (SARAS).
- Chairman (acting), Department of South Asia Studies, 2008-2009;
and Chair, South Asia Regional Studies Graduate Group, University of Pennsylvania, fall 2008.
- Chairman, Department of South Asia Studies; Chair,
SARS Graduate Group; and Director, South Asia
Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-04.
- Chairman (acting), Graduate Group in the History of Art, University of
Pennsylvania, 2001.
- Chairman, Department of the History of Art, University of
Pennsylvania, 1994-97.
- Chairman, Graduate Group in the History of Art, University of
Pennsylvania, 1979-81; 1986-91.
- Acting Undergraduate Chairman, History of Art, University of
Pennsylvania, 1979.
- Undergraduate Chairman, South Asia Regional Studies,
University of Pennsylvania, 1978-80.
- Vice-Chairman for Art History, College of Fine Arts,
University of Texas, Austin, 1975-76.
- 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.
- Curator, South Asia Art Archive, Van Pelt Library, University of
Pennsylvania.
- General Editor,
"Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture"
project. American Institute of Indian Studies, 1977-1992.
- Collaborative project with the Pakistan Heritage Society, Peshawar,
for an "Integrated Study of Hindu-Sahi and Salt-Range Temple Sights,"
1995-to date.
- "Continuities of Community Patronage: Pilgrimage Temples in Western
India." Multi-disciplinary project with L. A. Babb and John
E. Cort, 1996-99.
- 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:
Harvard Final Year Fellowship, 1973-74; Harvard Traveling
Fellowship,
1971-73; The JDR 3rd Fund Fellowship, 1970-71; National Defence
Education Act, Title VI Fellowship, Harvard University, 1967-70;
National Defence Foreign Language Summer Fellowship, 1967,
University of
Pennsylvania; Harvard Departmental Fellowship, 1966-67. United
States
Educational Foundation in India, Fulbright renewal grant,
1965-66,
Fergusson College, Pune. United States Educational Foundation in
India,
Fulbright Student/Tutor Grant, 1964-65, Maharaja's College,
Jaipur.
National Merit (honorary) and G.M. National scholarships,
1960-64;
Detur Prize, Harvard College, 1962.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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- "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
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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
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- 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, &
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Kiran Kranth Choudary. New Delhi: Harman Publishing House, pp. 120-24.
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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."
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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,
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Frederick M. Asher. Chicago and New Delhi: Encyclopædia Britannica,
pp. 441-42.
- 2003.6
- "Santos, Adèle Naudé." In R. Stephen Sennott (ed.),
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- "Vernacular Architecture and the Rhetoric of Re-making."
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- 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?"
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- 2002.3
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- 2000.1
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the Punjab." Kalâ, Journal
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South Asian Archaeology 1997, ed. Maurizio Taddei and Giuseppe De Marco. Rome: Istituto
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- 2000.3
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the
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- 2000.4
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Delhi: Rawat Publications, pp. 17-45.
- 2000.5
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- 2000.6
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Royalty, ed. N. K. Singhi and Rajendra Joshi, pp. 185-96.
Jaipur: Rawat Publications,
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- 1998.1
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the
Indus."
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- 1998.2
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Places." In Open Boundaries, Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian
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- 1998.6
- "Temples of the Indus & the Salt Range, A Fresh Probe
(1995-97)," with Abdur Rehman and Farid Khan. The Pakistan Heritage
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- 1997.1
- "Experience: thoughts on light, landscape,
and human experience; a personal statement." Exerpts of a conversation
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Majumdar, ed. Debala Mitra, pp. 315-21. Calcutta: Directorate of
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Books
Articles
- ACTing Practically: The first steps of a wide-scope archaeological project in the Swat valley (KhyberPakhtunkhwa, Pakistan).” Luca M. Olivieri, Massimo Vidale, with the contribution of M. Meister. In Proceedings of Cultural Heritage Symposium, edited by Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, Islamabad: American Institute of Pakistan Studies.
- “Decoding Origins for India’s Temples.” Doris Srinivasan Felicitation Volume.
- “Gumbat Balo-kale (Swat): Architectural Analysis, Conservation, and Excavation (2011),” Michael W. Meister, Luca M. Olivieri, & Massimo Vidale. In South Asia Archaeology 21, Paris.
- “Indian Islam’s Lotus Throne, the Case of Kaman.” In the B. K. Thapar Felicitation Volume. Edited by M. C. Joshi, New Delhi.
- “North Indian Art and Architecture (Pre-Medieval) Central and Western India: Pratiharas of Mandavyapura, Jabalipura, and Kanauj Together with their Feudatories.” In Art and Architecture in India. Edited by M. A. Dhaky (HISPC project).
- “North Indian Art and Architecture (Pre-Medieval): Northwest India and the Punjab.” In Art and Architecture in India: North Indian Art and Architecture (Pre-Medieval). Edited by M. A. Dhaky (HISPC project).
- “Restoring Temples in the Kafirkots, N.W.F.P., and Katas, Panjab, to Discussions of the Origins of Nagara.” In K. V. Ramesh Felicitation Volume. Edited by M. S. Nagaraja Rao.
- “Temple.” In Encyclopedia of Hinduism.
- “Uncovering Bilot: The Salt Range and Indus Temple Project.” In South Asia Archaeology 20, Vienna.
Book Reviews
- “Vincent Lefevre, Portraiture in Early India: Between Transience and Eternity.” Journal of Asian Studies.
Work in Progress
- “Amalaka Shrines.”
- Chittor: Style and Idiom in the Early Temples of
Uparamala.
- “Sikhara to Sekhari: Building From the Ground Up.”
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