Cathleen Cummings, Assistant Professor of Asian Art History


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Areas of specialization: Art of India/South Asia, and the Himalayas.

She received Master of Arts degrees from the University of London and The Ohio State University, and is currently completing her doctoral work at Ohio State. Her current research focuses on the iconography of an eighth-century Hindu temple in south India, considering the temple's iconographic program in relation to temple patronage, dharmic kingship and yogic practice. Other research interests include Marathi illustrated manuscripts of the Deccan and South India, seventeenth century Mewari painting; and Hindu architecture. Recent publications include several articles in the exhibition catalogue, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art.

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cathleen@uab.edu

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