Michael W. Meister

Michael W. Meister
Residence United States
Fields History of art
History of architecture
Archeology
Institutions University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
University of Texas, Austin
Maharaja College, Jaipur
Fergusson College, Pune
Alma mater Harvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Known for Architectural history of South Asia

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]

His research focuses on 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] His students include several art historians including Katherine Hacker (PhD 1991),[4] Ajay Sinha (PhD 1993),[5] Darielle Mason (PhD 1995),[6] Pika Ghosh (PhD 1999),[7] Chandreyi Basu (PhD 2001),[8] Tamara Sears (PhD 2004),[9] John Henry Rice (PhD 2009),[10] Beth Citron (PhD 2009),[11] Pushkar Sohoni (PhD 2010),[12] Yael R. Rice (PhD 2011),[13] and Nachiket Chanchani (PhD 2012).[14]

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    1. "Michael Meister". South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
    2. "School of Arts and Sciences : Meister Profile". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 19 July 2011.
    3. The Homepage of Michael W. Meister http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~mmeister/meister/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
    4. "Katherine Hacker". UBC.
    5. "Ajay Sinha". Mount Holyoke College.
    6. "Museum Appoints New Curator Of Indian And Himalayan Art". Philadelphia Museum of Art.
    7. "Pika Ghosh". UNC.
    8. "Chandreyi Basu". St. Lawrence University.
    9. "Tamara Sears". Yale Department of History of Art.
    10. "Meet the Curators". VMFA.
    11. "Trustees and Staff". Rubin Museum.
    12. "Pushkar Sohoni". South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
    13. "Yael R. Rice". Amherst College.
    14. "Nachiket Chanchani". University of Michigan History of Art.
    15. Meister, Michael W. (2010). Temples of the Indus: Studies in the Hindu Architecture of Ancient Pakistan. Leiden: Brill. pp. xviii, 174. ISBN 9789004186170.
    16. Babb, Lawrence A.; Cort, John E.; Meister, Michael W. (2008). Desert temples: Sacred centers of Rajasthan in historical, art-historical, and social context. Jaipur: Rawat Publications. pp. xiv, 208. ISBN 9788131601068.
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