Michael W. Meister is an art historian, archaeologist and architectural historian at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the W. Norman Brown Professor in the Department of History of Art and South Asia Studies, and has served as chair of the Department of South Asia Studies and as the director of the University of Pennsylvania's South Asia Center.[1] In addition, he is Consulting Curator, Asian Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and Faculty Curator of the South Asia Art Archive within the Penn Library's South Asia Image Collection.[2]
Michael W. Meister | |
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Alma mater | Harvard University |
Known for | Architectural history of South Asia |
Scientific career | |
Fields | History of art History of architecture Archeology |
Institutions | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia University of Texas, Austin Maharaja College, Jaipur Fergusson College, Pune |
His research focuses on Hindu temple architecture, the morphology of meaning, and other aspects of the history of art and architecture of the Indian sub-continent. He has authored several hundred essays and edited several books,[3] especially several volumes of the Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture.
His students include several art historians: Katherine Hacker (PhD 1991),[6] Ajay Sinha (PhD 1993),[7] Darielle Mason (PhD 1995),[8] Pika Ghosh (PhD 1999),[9] Chandreyi Basu (PhD 2001),[10] Tamara Sears (PhD 2004),[11] Melissa Kerin (PhD 2008),[12] John Henry Rice (PhD 2009),[13] Beth Citron (PhD 2009),[14] Pushkar Sohoni (PhD 2010),[15][16] Yael R. Rice (PhD 2011),[17] and Nachiket Chanchani (PhD 2012).[18]