STUDENTS

	Bríd Arthur is a graduate student at the Ohio State University. Her field of specialty is Buddhist art, particularly that of Tibet and the Himalayas. Her particular interests lie in conceptions of space and architectural arrangement. She also studies Asian art in the modern era and Islamic art.
	Stephanie Bogin is currently a doctoral candidate in the Conservation of Wall Painting Department at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Having completed the department's M.A. program in 2004 she has since worked throughout Europe and Asia as a free-lance wall painting conservator. Her current research is focused on the original materials and techniques of the wall paintings of Bhutan.
	Yashaswini Chandra is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London. She has an M.A. in history of art with an emphasis on Indian art from the National Museum Institute, New Delhi, and her main interest has been Himalayan art and culture.
	Wen-shing Chou is a doctoral candidate in history of art at University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist art. She has recently written about Qing-dynasty pilgrimage maps of Wutaishan.
	Damchö Diana Finnegan is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working on narratives of friendship from the Mūlasarvāstivādavinayavastu. This project asks how friendship is discursively constructed within such narratives, and explores the cluster of ethical values that friendship enables and entails. Her major areas of interest are Buddhist monastic culture, Sanskrit Buddhist literature and the ethical formation of persons. Her main research languages are Sanskrit and Tibetan.
	Maggie Mei Kei Hui is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was trained and practiced as an architect in Australia and has a M.Arch. in traditional earthen architecture. Her academic interests focus on vernacular architecture in east Asia, including China and Tibet. Her current Ph.D. research focuses on the vernacular architecture and the everyday living spatial experience at Labrang of Amdo, Tibet.
	Nancy Lin is a doctoral candidate in the Group in Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her academic interests are in Tibetan Buddhism and its sustained engagement with Indic cultural resources; the roles of narrative in cultural imagination; and identity formation. She is currently conducting dissertation research in China and India as a Fulbright-Hays Fellow.
	Ariana Maki is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art at Ohio State University. Her forthcoming dissertation will focus on the fifteenth century Bhutanese terton Pema Lingpa.
	Sarah Richardson is studying Tibetan Buddhist art history in the Ph.D. program of the Art Department at the University of Toronto. She received a B.A. Honours in anthropology from McGill University and an M.A. from the Ohio State University in Asian art history. Her research interests include modern Tibetan visual culture, identity politics, and contested narratives of history. She is working towards a dissertation on religious paintings in rebuilt monuments in central Tibet.
	Leigh Miller Sangster is a Ph.D. candidate in the interdisciplinary Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. She has recently concluded sixteen months of fieldwork in Tibet, from Tsaparang to Rebgong, with a primary focus on contemporary artists in Lhasa. Her dissertation, Painting Memory and Modernity in Contemporary Lhasa, will explore how contemporary non-traditional art may serve collective memory and cultural identity in the rapidly changing dynamics of a globalizing China.
	Orna Uranchimeg-Tsultem’s specialty is art of Mongolia. She worked extensively on the modern art of Mongolia prior to her current Ph.D. studies at UC Berkeley. She has curated Mongolian exhibitions and published on Mongolian modern art. At Berkeley, her focus of interest shifted to earlier periods, hence her dissertation "Urga: Nomadic city of the Mongols" concentrates on Mongolian art of the 18th-early 20th century.
	Ben Wood is a doctoral student in Buddhist studies at the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto. His doctoral research focuses on the soteriological roles of the realms of existence (gati) in Indian and Tibetan Buddhist texts.