CV

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POSITIONS

• 2012-        Teaching Professor, History of Art ~ Johns Hopkins University
• 2008-12   Visiting Associate Professor, History of Art & Political Science ~ JHU
• 2010-11    Interim Director of East Asian Studies ~ Johns Hopkins University
• ongoing     Exhibition Consultant
• 2006-08    Lecturer in Politics & International Relations ~ Swansea University
• 2004-06    Research Associate ~ Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
• 2004-05    Visiting Scholar, History ~ Pennsylvania State University
• 2003-04    Assistant Professor, Art History ~ University of Redlands
• 1998-03    Assistant Professor, Art History ~ St. Mary’s College of Maryland

EDUCATION

• 1999   University of Minnesota ~ Ph.D. in South Asian & Islamic Art History (Mellon Fellow)
• 1995   University of Minnesota ~ M.A. in South Asian & Islamic Art History
• 1993   Pomona College ~ B.A. in Art History

BOOKS

• 2011   A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture. Co-edited with Deborah Hutton. London & New York: Wiley-Blackwell Publications. 9781405185370
• 2011   Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection. Exhibition catalog.
• 2010   Gandhi’s Spinning Wheel and the Making of India. London: Routledge. 9780415494311
• 2009   Art for a Modern India, 1947–1980. Durham: Duke University Press. 9780822343752 (Reviewed in Leonardo, Art History, and CAA.reviews)
• 2006   Asian Art: An Anthology. Co-edited with Deborah Hutton. London & New York: Blackwell Publications. 9781405122412

ARTICLES

• 2014  “Colonial Polyrhythm: Imaging Action in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Visual Anthropology
• 2013  “Path Breakers,” and five extended artist entries in Susan S. Bean, ed., Midnight to the Boom: Painting in India after Independence. New York: Thames & Hudson and the Peabody Essex Museum.
• 2013   “The Group 1890” and “Subtle Transformations: Art and Politics in the 1990s” in Partha Mitter and Parul Dave Mukherji, eds., Twentieth Century Indian Art, New Delhi: Arts Alive Gallery.
• 2011  “Moments of Resistance: Small Interventions and the Festival of India” in Kim Youngna, ed., Exhibiting Asian Art: Issues and Perspectives, Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 193–226. Translated into Korean by Heeryoon Shin. To be published in expanded form in Misuljaryo 82 (2012).
• 2011   “Contemporary Art in Asia” essay for McGraw-Hill Middle and High School textbooks.
• 2010   “Revivalism, Modernism, and Internationalism: Finding the Old in the New India” in Anthony D’Costa, ed. A New India? London: Anthem Press, 2010, 151-78.
• 2009   “Reviving the Past: Post-Independence Architecture and Politics in India’s Long 1950s.” Interventions 11:3 (November 2009): 293-315.
• 2009   “Spinning without Touching the Wheel: Anti-Colonialism, Indian Nationalism and the Deployment of Symbol.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 29:2 (2009): 230-245.
• 2008   “Provincializing Modernity: From Derivative to Traditional.” Response to Partha Mitter. Art Bulletin 90:4 (December 2008): 555-557.
• 2008   “Orientalism in Firefly and Serenity.” Slayage 7:1 (Winter 2008) online, 16 pages.
• 2007   “Partition and the Uses of History in Waqt/Time (1965).” Screen 48:2 (Summer 2007): 161-78.
• 2006   “The Modern and the Ancient: 20th Century Re-readings of Indian History.” South Asian Studies 22 (2006): 103-114.
• 2006   “Inscribing Colonial Monumentality: A Case Study of the 1763 Patna Massacre Memorial.” The Journal of Asian Studies 65:1 (February 2006): 91-114.
• 2005   “P.T. Reddy, Neo-Tantrism, and Modern Indian Art.” Art Journal 64:4 (Winter 2005): 26-49.
• 2005   “Patna’s Golghar and the Transformation of Colonial Discourse.” Archives of Asian Art 55 (2005): 53-63.
• 2003   “Abject to Object: Colonialism Preserved through the Imagery of Muharram.” Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics 43 (Spring 2003): 203-17.
• 2003   “The Cemeteries and the Suburbs: Patna’s Challenges to the Colonial City in South Asia.” The Journal of Urban History 29:2 (January 2003): 151-73.
• 1997   “Sir Charles D’Oyly in Dhaka:  The Colonial Picturesque.” The Journal of Bengal Art 2 (1997): 265-282.

EXHIBITIONS

• 2012  Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, Oct–Dec, The College of New Jersey | NYT review
• 2011   Goddess, Lion, Peasant, Priest: Modern and Contemporary Indian Art from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, Mar–May, Oglethorpe University Museum of Art
• 2009   Indian Art since Independence: Selected Works from the Virginia and Ravi Akhoury and Shelley and Donald Rubin Collections, Hofstra University, NYT review
• 2009   Amita Bhatt in Dialogue with the Ford Collection, Walters Museum of Art