Jinah Kim is the George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture, and leads the Arts program of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute. Her research and teaching focus upon South Asian, and particularly Buddhist, painting, manuscripts, and material culture c. 500-1500 CE, with a special interest in text-image relationships, art and politics, female representations and patronage, the re-appropriation of sacred objects, and post-colonial discourse in the field of South and Southeast Asian Art. She is the author of Receptacle of the Sacred: Illustrated Manuscripts and the Buddhist Book Cult in South Asia (University of California Press, 2013) and Garland of Visions: Color, Tantra and a Material History of Indian painting (University of California Press, 2021), and editor (with Todd Lewis) of Dharma and Puṇya: Buddhist Ritual Art of Nepal (Hotei, 2019). Prof. Kim has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Institute of Advanced Study, the Asian Cultural Council, and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in 2012, she taught on South Asian art at Vanderbilt University and Rutgers University.