Doris Meth Srinivasan is a Professor of Indological studies. She has authored more than 75 publications.
She was curator of South and South East Asian arts at
Nelson-Atkins Museum
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In 2007, ''Time'' magaz ...
in
Kansas City, Missouri.
Early life
Doris Meth Srinivasan was born in
Schwabisch Gmund
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,
Germany
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. She received her B.A. ( with honors ) from Hunter College, CUNY and earned a PhD from
University of Pennsylvania
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. Her dissertation was "Concept of Cow in Rigveda". She taught mainly South Asian Art and Religion at various universities including
Columbia University
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,
Barnard College
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,
George Washington University
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and
George Mason University.
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Publications
* Many Heads, Arms and eyes: Origin, Meaning and Forms of Multiplicity in Indian Art (1997)[
* Vishnu (2000)][
* Urban form and meaning in South Asia (1993)][
* On the Cusp of an Era (with Srinivasan)(2007)][
]
References
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Living people
German women curators
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Schwäbisch Gmünd
German Indologists