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For more than 20 years, the Project has attracted an international group of senior scholars, students and young professionals, especially architects and Archaeologists, from India, Australia, the USA, the UK and other European countries. The interaction between senior scholars of different backgrounds (Anthropologically- and historically-trained Archaeologists, art and architecture historians, an astronomer, an ethnologist, a geographer and language specialists) has been particularly fertile. We have also benefited from the many associates most of whom have spent time with the team at the site. Several have contributed important scholarly reports. Other colleagues have provided invaluable assistance to us at the site or from a distance, or have carried out research that has enhanced our understanding of Vijayanagara. Officers of the Karnataka Department of Archaeology and Museums, our hosts at the site, have been particularly generous with their kind assistance over the years. Equally valuable has been the mutual understanding and appreciation created by the interaction between the young participants from different countries and backgrounds. A caring staff of drivers, cooks, chokidars, and others, have also made essential contributions to our work. Here we list all of these scholars, associates, assistants, staff and colleagues that appear in our records and note the period of their involvement. However, if we inadvertently have omitted anyone, we beg forgiveness. If participants would like us to list contact information, or if they do not want such information to be made available, let us know. We promise to include changes in the next update of this site. Please do get in touch! Listed in alphabetical order together with the dates at which the scholars were at the Vijayanagara site.
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| Prof.
Anna L. Dallapiccola, Art Historian, formerly Prof. of Art History,
South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, she has lectured at Edinburgh
and Leicester Universities.
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Dominic Davison-Jenkins, Archaeologist, UK (1986 and 1988). Completed
his PhD at Cambridge University on hydraulic works of the Vijayanagara
site.
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Asim Krishna Das, Sanskritist, India (1987 to 1992). Das received his
PhD in Sanskrit at Columbia University. In his dissertation, he compiled
and translated a Vaishnava text dealing with Salagramas, or natural
stone formations that are believed to be manifestations of Vishnu. He
resided in Vrindaban, where he was Assistant Director of the Research
Centre at Sri Chaitanya Samperday. There, he supervised the creation
of a bibliography of sources on the history of Braj, and translated
certain of these works. This work was done on behalf of the Indira Gandhi
National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. He worked with the Vijayanagara
Research Project for 5 years, translating the Pampamahatmya and studying
local religious practice.
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John M. Fritz, Archaeologist, USA (1981 to present-day). He is currently
Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology
and Archaeology. He was educated at the University of Chicago where
he received his PhD in Anthropology in 1974. His earlier work was concerned
with hunting/gathering subsistence systems and with typolology of stone
tools in the prehistoric US Southwest. He then became interested in
the relations of settlement plan and world view in Chaco Canyon, New
Mexico. Since 1981, he has carried out fieldwork at Vijayanagara, where
he has concentrated on archaeological documentation and interpretation
of urban form. jmfritz@mail.sas.upenn.edu
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C.T.M. Kotraiah, Archaeologist, India (1996 to the present day). A retired
officer of the Archaeological Survey of India, one of his most important
postings was as Director of the local museum in Kamalapura, which he
was instrumental in setting up. Kotraiah has carried out research and
published several articles on iconography and religious history of the
region as well as on water management in the empire as revealed by inscriptions.
He has abstracted information from Vijayanagara texts in the Kannada
language for a source book with references to urban life, the capital
and its courtly life.
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Dr. Mark Lycett, Archaeologist, USA (1993 to the present day). He received
his PhD from the University of New Mexico and is now on the faculty
of the University of Chicago. His principal interest is the adaptation
of native populations to Spanish invasions in the early historic US
Southwest; at Vijayanagara he has written on stone tools.
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John McKim Malville, Astronomer, USA (1990-1991). He has made important
contributions to the study of native cosmologies in the US Southwest
and pioneered archaeo-astronomical research at the Vijayanagara site
and at Varanasi. kim.malville@colorado.edu
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Alexandra Mack, Archaeologist, USA (1995-96 and 1999-2000). An assistant
at Vijayanagara in 1996, she travelled widely in India. She subsequently
studied the ways communities that receive pilgrims adapt their material
world; received her PhD in Anthropology (Archaeology Sub-discipline)
from Arizona State University in 2001. amack@post.harvard.edu
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Ben Marsh, geographer, USA (1987 and 2000) received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania
State University in 1983. He has also carried out field research at
Gordion and other sites in Turkey, and in the central Eastern USA. At
Vijayanagara, he has been concerned with the use of natural resources,
including stone and water. marsh@bucknell.edu
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George Michell, Architecture Historian, UK (1980 to the present day).
Trained as an architect in Melbourne, he later studied Indian archaeology
at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
receiving his PhD in 1974. His interest in Indian architectural and
urban sites has taken him to many parts of South Asia, and he has published
widely on Hindu and Islamic topics. Since early 1980 he has conducted
fieldwork at Vijayanagara, assisted by Indian and foreign architecture
students. georgeMichell@aol.com
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Kathleen D. Morrison, Archaeologist, USA (1986 to the present day).
Undertook graduate work at the University of New Mexico and University
of California, Berkeley, from which she received a PhD in 1992. Now
Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College,
University of Chicago, she studies the archaeology of South Asia and
Oceania with a principal focus on pre-colonial and early colonial period
South India. Her interests include state formation in South Asia, agricultural
intensification as a general historical and archaeological problem,
and the history of economic integration and political hegemony in the
South Indian city and empire of Vijayanagara. k-morrison@uchicago.edu
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Carla Sinopoli, Archaeologist, USA (1987 to the present day), analyzed
Vijayanagara ceramics for her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan where
she is now an Associate Professor and Associate Curator of Asian Archaeology
at the Museum of Anthropology. From 1987-1997 Sinopoli and Prof. Morrison
directed an archaeological survey project that focused on the Metropolitan
Region of Vijayanagara. Her major research interests have been political
economy, in particular, the relations of imperial and temples institutions
in the control and organization of craft production. In 2002, Sinopoli
and Morrison began a new project in South India –- a large scale
excavation project focusing on late prehistoric-early historic developments
in the region (c. 200 BC – 200 AD). sinopoli@umich.edu
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Natalie Tobert, Ethnologist, UK (1987, 1998 and 1997) began her career
as a potter, but later became interested in archaeology. This led to
field work on the material culture of nomadic groups in sub-Saharan
Africa for which she received her Ph.D. from the University of London.
She has been a curator at London’s Horniman Museum, and has taught
at the University of Wales, Richmond upon Thames College, Newcastle
University and, now, at the University of Westminster. She has published
books and articles on material culture, architecture and heath and spirituality.
natalietobert@aol.com
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(Sister) Anila Verghese, Historian, India (1984 to the present day).
Lecturer and Head of the History Department, and since 2000 Principal,
Sophia College, Mumbai. Her dissertation topic at Bombay University
dealt with religious cults at Vijayanagara as seen through inscriptions,
icons and temples. Together with Dallapiccola, she has prepared an iconographic
dictionary of Vijayanagara sculpture. Authored numerous essays on the
culture history of Vijayanagara, for example, on courtly dress based
on her study of sculpture. She continues her work on history, religion
and iconography during the Vijayanagara period. sophia@vsnl.com
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Phillip Wagoner, Architectural Historian and Translator, USA (1987 and
1991), is Associate Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University.
He studied Telugu and Sanskrit literature as well as South Asian Archaeology
at the University of Wisconsin where he completed his dissertation on
Kakatiya temple architecture in Andhra Pradesh. He has carried out research
at Vijayanagara on religious architecture of the fourteenth century
and has published a translation and historical interpretation of a Telugu
text of the late Vijayanagara period. pwagoner@mail.wesleyan.edu
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| Clare
Arni, Photographer, Bangalore, India (2001). abhimanyuarni@hotmail.com
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Rob
Brubaker, Archaeologist. He completed his dissertation on the defensive
arrangements at Vijayanagara at the University of Michigan in 2004.
robertb@umich.edu
Dr Laura Junker, Archaeologist, USA (1984), studied contemporary pottery production in Kamalapura. Dr Dieter Eigner, engineer and Archaeologist, Vienna, Austria (1993-96). He carried out mapping and architectural drawings at Vitthalapura. eigner_arch@yahoo.de |
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David Gimbel, Archaeologist, Director, Archaeos Foundation, New York,
New York, USA (2001 to present day). He is pioneering the use of more
sophisticated surveying techniques at the site. gimbel@archaeos.org
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| John
Gollings, Photographer, Melbourne, Australia (1980-88, 1994 and 1999).
He worked extensively at the site and his images have appeared in many
of our publications. john.gollings@gollingspidgeon.com
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| Surendra
Kumar, was born in Hampi village in 1972. He studied a variety of computer
applications in Bangalore the 1990’s. He has developed this web
site and is currently preparing digitized maps for publication.
surihampi@aol.com
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