Department of Art History (M/C 201)
211A Henry Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
cathbeck@uic.edu
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley,
History of Art, December 2006
“Artistic
Production and Ritual Performance at Amaråvat™ and other Buddhist stupas of
Andhra Pradesh”
M.A. University of California, Berkeley,
History of Art, December 2000
Thesis: “Innovative Imagery: An
Analysis of the Theriomorphic
Varåha at Eraª”
B.A. University of California, Los Angeles,
Art History, June 1996
Summa
cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Assistant Professor of
Art History, 2007-present
Previous
Teaching Experience
Visiting Assistant
Professor: Department of Art, 2006-07
Visiting Lecturer: Department of Art and Visual Culture, Fall 2004
Instructor of Record: Department of the History of Art, 2002-2006
Graduate Student Instructor: Department of the History of Art, 1998-2001
Outstanding
Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2003-04
Teaching
Effectiveness Award for Graduate Student Instructors, 2003-04
Fellowships
University of California, Berkeley
History
of Art Department Travel Grant, Winter 2006
(Research
at the Amaråvat™ Kalachakra Initiation)
Qayum
Family Foundation Travel Grant for Exploratory Research, January 2006
History
of Art Department Travel Grant, Summer 2005
(Research
in Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, and Andhra Pradesh)
Dean’s
Normative Time Fellowship, Spring 2005
History
of Art Department Travel Grant, Summer 2003
(Dissertation
research at the British Museum and British Library)
History
of Art Departmental Fellowship, Spring 2002
History
of Art Department Travel Grant, Winter 1999
(M.A.
research in Madhya Pradesh, India)
Regents-Intern
Fellowship, 1997-2001
Extramural Fellowships
Phi
Beta Kappa Graduate Fellowship, Spring 2005
American
Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Research Fellowship, 2002-2003
American
Institute of Indian Studies, Summer Language Program Funding, 2001
“Remembering
the Amaråvat™ St£pa: The Revival of a ‘Ruin.”’
In Buddhist St£pas in South Asia: Recent
Archaeological, Art-Historical and Historical Perspectives, edited by Jason
Hawkes and Akira Shimada, London and Delhi: School of Oriental and African
Studies (University of London) South Asia Series and Oxford University Press,
forthcoming.
Review
of Building Communities in Gujaråt:
Architecture and Society during the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries,
by Alka Patel, Journal of the Society of
Architectural Historians, September, 2007.
Papers
and Lectures
Paper,
“Envisioning world peace in Andhra Pradesh: The visual culture of Kalachakra
2006,” Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October
2006.
Paper, “The Colossal
Buddha of Hussain Sagar: Hyderabad’s Answer to the Statue of Liberty?” and
Panel Organizer, “On Political and Devotional Reuse: Perspectives on the
Contemporary Refashioning of Buddhist Images,” Conference on South Asia,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2005.
Lecture, “From the
Miniature to the Massive: Buddhist Art of China, Korea and Japan,” Scholars and
Samurai: Summer Institute for Secondary History, Geography and World Literature
Teachers, University of the Pacific, June 2004
Lecture, “Stone by
Stone: Patronage and early Buddhist art in India,” Society for Asian Art, San
Francisco Asian Art Museum, August 2002
Panel
Discussant, “Defining Parameters: The Image of the Feminine in South Asian Art
and Literature,” South Asia Conference, University of California, Berkeley,
February 2001