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Office: KDM 186
Office hours: On sabbatical 2008/09
Phone:(916) 278-3880
Email: pchirapravati@csus.edu

Website:
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/chirapravati

Furlough Schedule:
September 15 and 22
October 16 (campus closed), 21, 22, 30
November 25 and 30
December 17

Syllabi and course materials below.

Pat Chirapravati is Associate Professor of Asian Art History and Curatorial Studies.

Pattaratorn Chirapravati is an art historian who specializes in the art of Thailand. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History and Southeast Asian Studies from Cornell University, and she served as assistant curator of Southeast Asian Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco before joining the Sacramento State faculty in 2001. She teaches courses on a variety of topics in Asian art, Art History and Museum Studies. Her research treats the political uses of religious icons and the interpretation of religious practices and texts from art works. She is the newly appointed director of the Asian Studies Program.

BIO

Ph.D. Cornell University (Southeast Asian Art and Southeast Asian Studies), 1994.
M.A. Cornell University (Southeast Asian Art), 1991.
M.A. Ohio State University (Indian Art and Philosophy), 1984.
B.A. Silpakorn University, First Class Honor (Asian Art), 1981.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Votive Tablets in Thailand: Origin, Styles, and Uses (Oxford University Press, 1997).

ARTICLES

“Tracing Sinhalese Presence from Sukhothai Inscriptions and Objects of the Fourteenth Century,” Buddhist Manuscript Cultures, eds. Steve Berkwitz, Juliane Schober, and Claudia Brown. (Routledge, 2008).

“Illustrating the Lives of the Bodhisattva: Art of Wat Si Chum,” Past Lives of the Buddha: Wat Si Chum-Art, Architecture and Inscriptions, ed. Peter Skilling. (River Books, 2007).

“Original or Recycled? Jataka Reliefs at Wat Si Chum,” Buddhist Legacy in Mainland Southeast Asia. (The Sirindhorn Anthropology Center and Ecole Fran�aise dÕExtreme-Orient, 2006).

“Wat Ratchaburana: Deposits of History, Art, and Culture of the Early Ayutthaya period” in Kingdom of Siam: Art from Central Thailand: 1350-1800 CE, exhibition catalog,. (Snoeck Publishers, Buppha Press, Art Media Resources, Inc., and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2005).

“Sukhothai” and “Ayutthaya,” articles for Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Robert Buswell (Thompson and Gale, 2004).

“Important Extant Temples and Sculptures in Thailand and Burma,” article in Encyclopedia of Monasticism. (Fitzroy, Dearborn, Michigan, 2000).

“Development of Buddhist Traditions in Peninsular Thailand: Study Based on Votive Tablets (Eighth to Thirteenth Centuries),” in Festschrift in honor of the seventieth birthday of Stanley O'Connor, ed. Nora Taylor. (Southeast Asia Program Publication, Cornell University, 2000).

“Votive Tablets and Amulets from Thailand,” Art From Thailand, special issue of Marg Magazine, ed. Robert L. Brown (1999).

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

The Kingdom of Siam: The Arts of Central Thailand, 1350-1800 (The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2005 and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, 2005).
Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma 1775-1950 (The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2009).
The Spirit of Contemporary Asian Art (The University Library Gallery, 2003).
The Tradition Continues: Art from Thailand (The Witt Gallery, CSUS, 2005).
Transcendent Landscape by Shimo (The University Library Gallery Annex, CSUS, 2006).
The House of Spirits: Works of Emeritus Professor Leroy Keevaljian (The Witt Gallery, CSUS, 2007).
The Cycle of Life: Innocence (The Pence Gallery (Davis), 2007).
The Cycle of Life: Wisdom (The University Library Gallery Annex, CSUS, 2007).
The Cycle of Life: Awakening (The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2008).

Syllabi - To be posted for Fall 2009 at a later date

Art 115 - flyer and course description