Past Member
Padma Kaimal
Funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies; The Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member
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Padma Kaimal will be reading an eighth-century Hindu temple from the city of Kanchipuram in southern India. In the monument’s visual and physical languages, she sees gendered metaphors teaching visitors of the mutual dependence between things that may seem to be opposites.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
1988
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
B.A.
1979
Appointments
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
1988–pres
Assistant, then Associate, Professor
Vanderbilt University
1987–1988
Visiting Lecturer