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Mandira Sharma
Mandira Sharma is an art historian, specializing in early Indian art. She earned her PhD in the ...
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Dome of Heaven: Buddhist Architecture along the Silk Road
Dome of Heaven challenges the Orientalist view about Asian domes as derivatives of Roman/Byzantine domes and refreshes the dominant approach that inve
Di Luo
Di Luo is Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies at Connecticu...
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Sacred Crafts: Artisans and Buddhist Monasteries in Premodern China and Japan
During the Song (960–1276) and Yuan (1271–1368) dynasties, Buddhist monasteries in southeastern China continuously increased in both scale and wealth.
Heaven in your Hand: Astral Knowledge on Ancient and Medieval Coins
The project examines celestial bodies depicted on coins, focusing on the global late antique and medieval world. When considering twenty-first-century
Joseph Dennis
Joseph Dennis’s research focuses on the history of Chinese print culture, law, and society. He i...
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Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100–1700)
The science of farming is a science full of benefits; it is the origin of all industries.” ʿ ilm-i filāḥat ʿ ilm-i pür menāfiʿ&nbs
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Previous Group Members, Justin Niermeier-Dohoney
Previous Visiting Fellows, Heba Mahmoud Saad AbdelNaby
Institutional Collaborators (2020–2027), Brill Academic Publishers
Madhu Narayanan
Madhu Narayanan is a PhD candidate at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian I...
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Materiality as a Constructed Notion: Bamboo Basket Makers Can Tell the Story?
This project discusses the journey of natural plant fiber together with a set of human skills in a given spatial and cultural context. I investigate h
Rare Earth: Geohistories, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750
Until the mid-eighteenth century, most of the world’s precious stones were mined and consumed in South and Southeast Asia, from deposits that remained