Michael W. Meister (BA, MA, PhD Harvard) is W. Norman Brown 
Professor of South Asia Studies. He is a specialist in the art of India 
and Pakistan. He has served as Chair of the Departments of South 
Asia Studies (SASt) and History of Art and as Director of Penn's South 
Asia Center. He is Curator of Indian Art, Asian section, University 
Museum, and Curator of the South Asia Art Archive.

Research fellowships have included two Fulbright awards, a J. Paul 
Getty Trust Interpretive Research award, an NEH grant, American Institute 
of Indian Studies and American Institute of Pakistan Studies grants, and 
funding from University Research Foundations at Penn and Univ. Texas-
Austin.

His research and writing focuses on temple architecture, the morphology of
meaning, and other aspects of the art of the Indian sub-continent. Current
projects include "Mountain Temples and Temple-Mountains" for the Journal 
of the Society of Architectural Historians and a monograph growing out of 
his long-term "Salt Range Temples" project.                

Membership in other Graduate Groups:

Architecture

Religious Studies

South Asia Studies