Research and Teaching Interests:
Professor Meister is a specialist in the art of India and Pakistan. His research focuses on temple architecture, the morphology of meaning, early Islam, and contemporary aspects of the art of the Indian sub-continent. He has carried out excavations at Salt Range temple sites in Pakistan; surveyed mountain temples in the Himalayas; and done ethnographic cross-disciplinary research on pilgrimage temples in Rajasthan.

Courses for this term and next term:

	Spring 2007:
•	ARTH 104/SAST 200/SAST 500: Introduction to Art in South Asia
	ARTH 599: Photo Archival Studies in Indian Art
	Fall 2007:
•	ARTH 501: Halpern-Rogath Curatorial Seminar, Contemporary India
•	ARTH 711: Seminar in Indian Art: Methods of Meaning, Architecture and Sculpture

Selected Awards:

•	2003-06		Office of Education, National Resource Center grant
•	2003		University Research Foundation grant
•	2001		American Institute of Pakistan Studies, ORC Islamabad, Scholar in Residence
•	2000		Canadian Center for Architecture travel grant
•	1996-99		J. Paul Getty Trust Interpretive Research Program grant
•	1988		American Institute of Indian Studies
•	1980-88		National Endowment for the Humanity grants
•	1976		U.S. Fulbright Foundation Senior Research Fellowship
•	1966-68		United States Educational Foundation in India, Fulbright awards

Education:

Harvard College:	History and Literature	B.A. (honors)	1964
Harvard University:	Fine Arts	M.A.	1971
Harvard University:	Fine Arts	Ph.D.	1974

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Select Publications:

•	Desert Temples: Sacred Centers of Rajasthan in Historical, Art-Historical, and Social Contexts. Co-authored by L. A. Babb, John E. Cort, and Michael W. Meister. Forthcoming from Rawat Publications, 2007.
•	"Image Iconopraxis and Iconoplasty in South Asia," Res, Anthropology and Aesthetics 51 (forthcoming Spring 2007).
•	"Mountain Temples and Temple-Mountains: Masrur." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 65.1 (March 2006).
•	"Archaeology at Kafirkot," with Abdur Rehman. In Catherine Jarrige and Vincent Lefevre, ed., South Asian Archaeology 2001, pp. 571-78. Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 2006.
•	"Crossing Lines, Architecture in Early Islamic South Asia," Res, Anthropology and Aesthetics 43 (2003): 117-30.
•	Multiple Histories: Culture and Society in the Study of Rajasthan. Edited by Lawrence A. Babb, Varsha Joshi, and Michael W. Meister. Rawat Publications, 2002.
•	Language Teacher's Training Courses (one week), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1998
•	Ethnography and Personhood: Notes From the Field. Rawat Publications, 2000.
•	Encyclopædia of Indian Temple Architecture, multiple volumes, Oxford University Press, 1983-91.

•	History of Art Graduate Group
•	Ph.D. Architecture Graduate Group
•	South Asia Studies Graduate Group
•	Religious Studies Graduate Group