Ross Bernhaut

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Ross Bernhaut

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art

Department/Office Information

Art
Little Hall
  • T  4:00pm - 5:00pm  (307 Little Hall)
  • R  4:00pm - 6:00pm  (307 Little Hall)

Contact

Education

BA, University of Michigan

MA, University of Pennsylvania 

PhD, University of Michigan

Publications

"Babur, Akbar, and the Transformation of Gwalior's Rock-Hewn Tirthankaras." Archives of Asian Art 73, no. 2 (2023): 107–43.

"City and Country Temples in Early Medieval Gopagiri and Its Hinterland." In Handbook on Urban History of Early India, ed. Aloka Parasher Sen, 435–56. Singapore: Springer Nature. 

"The Cycle of Destruction and Repair: Conserving a Thanjavur Painting." Art Institute of Chicago, July 1, 2024. Co-authored with Elizabeth Wigfield.

"City of Saviours: The Jain Statues of Gwalior." Sahapedia, 2026.

Courses Taught

ARTH 105 Introduction to Architecture in Cultural Context

ARTH 245 Palaces and Paintings of India

Distinctions

Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2024–25

Charles Lang Freer Fellowship, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2023

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program Grant, 2022–23

Critical Language Scholarship for Hindi, U.S. Department of State, 2021

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Hindi, U.S. Department of Education, 2020–21

American Institute of Indian Studies Sanskrit Summer Language Program Scholarship, 2019