6-526: Dehejia is an Indian surname: Vidya Dehejia , professor of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University Rajeev Dehejia , professor of public policy in the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University Harsha V. Dehejia (born c. 1938), allergist, author, and radio host, and Professor of Indian Studies at Carleton University [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
12-658: Is a retired academic and the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University . She has published 24 books and numerous academic papers on the art of South Asia, and has curated many exhibitions on the same theme. She has been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government and a Freer Medal from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art . Vidya Dehejia
18-632: The University of Hong Kong . In 1973 she moved to a lectureship at the Delhi School of Planning and Architecture. In 1982 she became an associate professor at Columbia University . In 1994, she moved to the Smithsonian Institution , becoming the chief curator and deputy director of its Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery . In 2002 she became Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian Art at Columbia University , and in 2003 she became
24-516: The surname Dehejia . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dehejia&oldid=1049293015 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description with empty Wikidata description All set index articles Vidya Dehejia Vidya Dehejia
30-677: The director of that university's South Asian Institute. Dehejia was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Indian government. She has been appointed to the Mario Miranda Visiting Research Professorship at Goa University . She served on the Humanities jury for the Infosys Prize in 2019. Dehejia was named the fifteenth recipient of the Freer Medal in 2023, and is the first scholar of South Asian art to receive
36-405: Was educated at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai , where she gained a first in ancient Indian culture in 1961. She gained a first in archaeology and anthropology at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1963. She completed her PhD on early Buddhist caves of Western India in 1968, also at Cambridge. In 1968, she took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Sydney . In 1970 she became a lecturer at
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