Tamara Sears

Rutgers University

February–June 2017

Tamara Sears is a specialist in South Asian art history, with an emphasis on the Indian subcontinent. Her first book, Worldly Gurus and Spiritual Kings: Architecture and Asceticism in Medieval India (Yale University Press, 2014), received the PROSE award in Architecture and Urban Planning.  Her essays have appeared in well over a dozen volumes and journals, including The Art Bulletin, Ars Orientalis, and Archives of Asian Art.  She has held faculty positions at Florida State, NYU, and Yale, and she has received grants and fellowships from Fulbright, the J. Paul Getty Foundation, the Society of Architectural Historians, the National Humanities Center, and Dumbarton Oaks. At the Clark, she will be completing her second book, which examines the relationships among landscape, architecture, environmental history, and travel on local, regional, and global scales.