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Catherine Becker
Department of Art History (M/C 201)
211A Henry Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
(312) 413-5975 FAX: (312) 413-2460
 cathbeck@uic.edu
Education
- Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, History of Art, December 2006
“Artistic Production and Ritual Performance at Amarāvatī and other Buddhist stūpas of Andhra Pradesh”
- M.A. University of California, Berkeley, History of Art, December 2000
Thesis: “Innovative Imagery: An Analysis of the Theriomorphic
Varāha at Eraṇ”
- B.A. University of California, Los Angeles, Art History, June 1996
Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Present Position
University of Illinois at Chicago
Assistant Professor of Art History, 2007-present
(On Leave 2008-2009)
Previous Positions
Williams College
Visiting Assistant Professor: Department of Art, 2006-07
Bates College
Visiting Lecturer: Department of Art and Visual Culture, Fall 2004
University of California, Berkeley
Instructor of Record: Department of the History of Art, 2002-2006
Graduate Student Instructor: Department of the History of Art, 1998-2001
Fellowships and Academic Honors
Harvard University
South Asia Initiative Post-doctoral Fellow, 2008-09
University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, 2003-04
Teaching Effectiveness Award for Graduate Student Instructors, 2003-04
History of Art Department Travel Grant, Winter 2006, Summer 2005, Summer 2003,
Winter 1999
Qayum Family Foundation Travel Grant for Exploratory Research, January 2006
Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, Spring 2005
History of Art Departmental Fellowship, Spring 2002
Regents-Intern Fellowship, 1997-2001
Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California
Graduate Fellowship, Spring 2005
American Institute of Indian Studies
Junior Research Fellowship, 2002-2003
Summer Language Program Funding, 2001
Publications
“Remembering the Amarāvatī Stūpa: The Revival of a ‘Ruin.”’ In Buddhist Stūpas 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 Gujarāt: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries, by Alka Patel, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September, 2007.
Work in Progress
Sacred Fragments: Creating, Encountering, and Redefining Sculpture from the Buddhist Stupas of Andhra Pradesh, book manuscript.
“Innovation and Expiation: The Theriomorphic Varāha at Erāṇ,” article to be contributed to a special volume of Ars Orientalis in felicitation of Professor Joanna Williams
Papers and Lectures
“The Colossal Buddha of Hussain Sagar: Constructing and Conceding a Symbol of
Enlightened Secularism in Hyderabad, India,” Conference on the Sacred and the Secular, University of Southampton, September 19, 2008
“Re-membering the Amarāvatī Stūpa,” XVth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, June 26, 2008
“Re-membering the Amarāvatī Stūpa,” Association of Asian Studies, Annual Meeting,
April 3, 2008
“Envisioning world peace in Andhra Pradesh: The visual culture of Kalachakra 2006,”
Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 2006.
“The Colossal Buddha of Hussain Sagar: Hyderabad’s Answer to the Statue of Liberty?” 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
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