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Kerry Brown

Associate chair, art history

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, Virginia Commonwealth University 
  • M.A., history of art, The Ohio State University
  • B.A., history of art, The Ohio State University

Credentials

  • Associate chair, art history, 2024–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Professor, art history, 2018–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Adjunct assistant professor, art history, 2015–2018, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  • Adjunct assistant professor, Asian studies and art history, 2016–2018, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, VA
  • Adjunct assistant professor, art history, 2015–2018, Rappahannock Community College, Glenns, VA
  • Adjunct instructor, art history, 2015–2016,  University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
  • Adjunct instructor, art history, 2014, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
  • Adjunct instructor, art history, 2008–2010, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  • Graduate teaching assistant, art history, 2009 –2010, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  • Adjunct instructor, religious studies, 2006–2007 and 2010, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  • Adjunct faculty, 2004–2005, Buddhist Studies in India Program, Antioch University
  • Graduate Teaching Associate, 2002–2003, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Graduate School Dissertation Completion Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Alternate, CASVA 2012–2014 Ittleson Predoctoral Fellowship, The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
  • P.E.O. International Scholar Award, Philanthropic Educational Organization International
  • Fulbright Student Fellowship to Nepal, United States Department of State, Institute of International Education
  • Fredrika and Paul Jacobs Merit Scholarship School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • NEH Summer Scholar, "Buddhist Traditions of Tibet and the Himalayas," National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, College of the Holy Cross, 2009
  • Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Phi Kappa Phi Graduate School Scholarship, Virginia Commonwealth University

Organizations

  • American Council for Southern Asian Art
  • Association for Asian Studies
  • Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies
  • Coastal Museums Association
  • Fulbright Association
  • International Association of Buddhist Studies
  • Southeastern College Art Conference

Publications and presentations

Articles

  • "Adorning the Buddhas: The Ceremonial Regalia of the Daśa Sthavira jus from Kwā Bahā, Nepal," Ars Orientalis 47 (2017): 266–302.

Essays

  • "Obituary | Dina Bangdel (1953–2017)," HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 38, no. 1 (2018): 200–202.
  • "Pilgrimage and Gift-Giving in Newar Buddhism," in Pilgrimage and Faith: Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, ed. Virginia Raguin, Dina Bangdel, and Frank Peters, 86–93; 339. Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2010.
  • "The Potential of Transformation: It is Possible to Attain Enlightenment," in The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, ed. John C. Huntington and Dina Bangdel, 56–59. Columbus, Ohio and Chicago: Columbus Museum of Art in association with Serindia Publications, 2003.

Presentations

  • "Activating Ancient Buddhist Narratives in Contemporary Ritual Practice: The Veneration of Dīpaṅkara Buddha in Nepal," Keynote presentation at the conference Expressions of the Dharma: Buddhist Art and Culture in Everyday Life, organized and sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Humanistic Buddhism (ISHB) at the University of the West and the Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles, April 4, 2019.
  • "Nāg Bahā: The Ritual Transformation of a Nepalese Courtyard," presented at the 47th Annual Conference on South Asia, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., Oct. 12, 2018.
  • "Building a Modern Nepal: Neoclassical Styles in Rana Dynastic Architecture, 1846–1951," presented at The Fifth ANHS (Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies) Himalayan Studies Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo., Sept. 3, 2017.
  • "When is a Monk a Monk? Public Perception and Monasticism in Nepal," presented at The Fourth ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Feb. 26, 2016.
  • "The Role of Art and Ritual in the Survival of Buddhism in Contemporary Nepal," presented at the Marcia Powell Festival of Religion and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., April 10, 2015.
  • "When the Buddhas Come to Town: Manifesting the Trikaya at the Samyak Mahadana Festival in Nepal," presented at the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion Regional Meeting, Atlanta, Ga., March 8, 2014.
  • "Ajus as Exemplars of the Monastic Ideal in Newar Buddhism," presented at the Association for Asian Studies 2013 Annual Conference, San Diego, March 22, 2013.
  • "Power and Religious Authority: Visual Expressions of Newar Buddhist Identity at the Samyak Mahadana in Nepal," presented at The Second ANHS (Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies) Himalayan Studies Conference, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 21–23, 2012.
  • "Performing the Sacred in Buddhist Art: Dipankara Buddha and the Samyak Mahadana in Nepal," presented at the South Asian Studies Association's Sixth Annual Conference, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, Calif., April 15, 2012.

Panels

  • "Revisiting Buddhists' Sacred Sites," organized for the Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) Regional Meeting, Atlanta, Ga., March 8, 2014.
  • "Space, Place, and Presence: Recent Scholarship in Himalayan Visual Culture," organized for The Second ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 21–23, 2012.