ACSAA Graduate Resource
A directory of degree-granting institutions in North America with one or more specialists in South Asian and Southeast Asian art and visual culture. Use this as a guide in a broader search for graduate programs — the list may not be comprehensive and some information may become outdated. Send corrections or updates to the ACSAA webmaster at acsaawebmaster@gmail.com.
PhD-Granting Institutions
Doctoral
Arizona State University
Faculty
Case Western Reserve University / Cleveland Museum of Art
Faculty & Museum
Museums
Cleveland Museum of Art · Cincinnati Art Museum
City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center
DeptArt History
Faculty
Inter-University Doctoral Consortium — cross-registration at Columbia, Fordham, New School, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers-New Brunswick, Stony Brook. Details →
Columbia University
Faculty
- Subhashini Kaligotla
- Vidya Dehejia (Emeritus)
- Manan Ahmed (History)
Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art · Brooklyn Museum — Brinda Kumar, Joan Cummins, John Guy, Navina Haidar, Qamar Adamjee
Inter-University Doctoral Consortium — cross-registration at CUNY, Fordham, New School, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, Stony Brook, Teachers College. Details →
Cornell University
Faculty
George Mason University
DeptArt History
Faculty
Museum
National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian — Debra Diamond, Emma Natalya Stein
Harvard University
Faculty
- Jinah Kim (South & Southeast Asian Art)
- Vishal Khandelwal (Modern & Contemporary Architecture)
- Gülru Necipoğlu (Islamic Architecture)
- David Roxburgh (Islamic Art)
Museums
Harvard Art Museum · Museum of Fine Arts · Peabody Essex Museum — Laura Weinstein, Aysin Yoltar-Yildirim
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
DeptArchitecture
Faculty
- James Wescoat (Emeritus)
- Arindum Dutta
Museums
Harvard Art Museum · Museum of Fine Arts · Peabody Essex Museum — Laura Weinstein
New York University
Museums
Metropolitan Museum of Art · Brooklyn Museum — Brinda Kumar, Joan Cummins, John Guy, Navina Haidar
Inter-University Doctoral Consortium — cross-registration at Columbia, Princeton, CUNY, Rutgers, Fordham, Stony Brook, New School, Teachers College. Details →
Rutgers University
DeptArt History
Faculty
- Tamara Sears
- Deniz Turker (Islamic Art)
- Haruko Wakabayashi (Japanese lit. & visual culture)
- Jessey Choo (Chinese Buddhist history)
- Julia Stephens (History)
Museums
Newark Museum of Art (Atteqa Ali) · Metropolitan Museum · Philadelphia Museum of Art
Doctoral Consortium — cross-registration at Columbia, CUNY, Fordham, New School, NYU, Princeton, Stony Brook.
University of British Columbia
Faculty
- Katherine Hacker (Emeritus)
University of California, Berkeley
Faculty
Museum
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco — Padma Maitland, Natasha Reichle
University of California, Irvine
Faculty
University of California, Los Angeles
Faculty
- Saloni Mathur
- Robert Brown (Emeritus)
Museums
LACMA (Bindu Gude, Stephen Markel) · Norton Simon Museum (Lakshika Senarath Gamage)
University of Chicago
DeptArt History
Faculty
Museums
Art Institute of Chicago (Madhuvanti Ghose) · Nelson-Atkins (Kimberly Masteller)
University of Illinois–Chicago
DeptArt History
Faculty
Museums
Art Institute of Chicago (Madhuvanti Ghose) · Nelson-Atkins (Kimberly Masteller)
University of Michigan
Museum
Detroit Institute of Arts — Katherine Kasdorf
University of Minnesota
Faculty
- Anna Lise Seastrand
- Cristin McKnight Sethi (Minneapolis College of Art & Design)
Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Art
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Pennsylvania
Faculty
- Sonal Khullar
- Michael Meister (Emeritus)
- Daud Ali (South Asia Studies)
Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art — Darielle Mason, Neeraja Poddar
University of Texas at Austin
Faculty
Museum
Crow Museum of Asian Art — Natalia Di Pietrantonio
University of Toronto
Faculty
Museum
Royal Ontario Museum — Deepali Dewan
University of Virginia
Faculty
- Daniel Ehnbom (Emeritus)
Museum
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts — John Henry Rice
Yale University
DeptHistory of Art
Faculty
- Tim Barringer
- Kishwar Rizwi
- Phyllis Granoff (Religious Studies, Retired)
Museum
Yale University Art Gallery — Ruth Barnes
Undergraduate & MA-Granting Institutions
MA / BA
The following professors may also serve as doctoral dissertation committee members.
Amherst College
DeptHistory of Art; History & Asian Languages & Civilizations
Faculty
Museums
Mead Art Museum · Worcester Art Museum — Siddhartha V. Shah, Yagnaseni Datta
Barnard College
Faculty
- Anooradha Iyer Siddique
- John Stratton Hawley (Religion)
- Rachel McDermott (Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures)
Hamilton College
DeptArt History
AlsoAsian Studies
Faculty
- Arathi Menon
- Abhishek Amar (Asian Studies)
University of North Texas
Faculty
Museum
Crow Museum of Asian Art — Natalia Di Pietrantonio
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