Melissa R. Kerin Director of the Mudd Center for Ethics and Professor of Art History

Mattingly 209
540-458-4073
kerinm@wlu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D.    University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art
Dissertation Topic: 15th-17th-Century Buddhist Wall Paintings of India's Western Himalaya

MTS    Harvard Divinity School, World Religions Program (Buddhist Studies)

B.A.    Trinity College, Hartford, CT (Women's Studies)

Teaching

I teach courses in South Asian (including Tibet and the Himalayas) and East Asian Art and Architecture. My research focuses on the intricate and multifaceted relationships between art and identity formation (political and cultural), cultural memory, and religious praxis.