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Sherry Fowler
Associate Professor
Japanese Art












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Sherry Fowler
COURSES TAUGHT:
Japanese painting
Japanese sculpture
Buddhist art
Japanese Artistic Encounters with Europe and the U.S.


Graduate seminars (recent topics):
Japanese Buddhist Temples in Context;
Heian Period Buddhist Art;
Collecting East Asian Art in the U.S.
Buddhist Art of the Kamakura Period;
Japanese Prints; Buddhism and Christianity:
Saints, Relics and Shrines)

EDUCATION

1995 Ph.D., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
1989 M.A., Art History, University of Washington
1992-93, 86-89 Research Fellow, Kyoto University, Department of Aesthetics and Art History
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004- Associate Professor, University of Kansas
2000-2004 Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
1995-2000 Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
 
HONORS
2006-2007

Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowship, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, University of London

2005-2006 Asian Cultural Council Asian Art and Religion Fellowship
2005 Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies
2004 Association of Asian Studies, Japan Studies Research Travel within the U.S.A.
2003 Hall Center for the Humanities Vice-Chancellor's Book Subvention Award
2001 Japan Foundation Fellowship; Association of Asian Studies Japan Studies Travel Grant
1999 Social Science Research Council, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship
 
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Between Six and Thirty-three: Manifestations of Kannon in Japan” (“Zwischen sechs und dreiunddreissig: Erscheinungsformen von Kannon Bosatsu”) in Kannon, Divine Compassion: Early Buddhist Art from Japan (Kannon Göttliches Mitgefuhl Frühe buddhistische Kunst aus Japan)Zürich: Rietberg Museum at the University of Zürich, 2007.

Rearranging Art and History at the Japanese Buddhist Temple of Muroji.
University of Hawai'i Press,
2005.

“The Splitting Image of Baozhi at Saioji and His Cult in Japan.” Oriental Art, vol. XLVI, no. 4 (2000): 2-10.

“Shifting Identities in Buddhist Sculpture: Who’s Who in the Muroji Kondo.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. LII (2000-2001): 83-104.

“Setting Foot on the Mountain: Mt. Muro as a Women’s Alternative to Mt. Koya.” Asian Journal of Women’s Studies vol. 3, no. 4 (1998): 52-73.

“Nyonin Koya to shite no Muroji no mondai.” Nihon shukyo bunkashi kenkyu 2/1-2 (Nov. 1997): 43-58.

“In Search of the Dragon: Mt. Muro’s Sacred Topography.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 24/1-2 (1997): 146-161.

“Hibutsu: Secret Buddhist Images of Japan.” Journal of Asian Culture vol. XV (1991-92): 138-159.

 


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