Dr Deborah Stein is the author of ‘The Hegemony of Heritage: Ritual and the Record in Stone’ (UC Press 2018; and Mapin 2019). Trained as a medievalist art historian of South Asian Art, Dr. Stein holds a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley and has taught widely at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, Mills College, San Francisco State University, and California College of Arts. She has lectured locally and internationally in Hindi, French, and English. Professor Stein has published several peer-reviewed articles on topics such as multi-sectarian patronage and early modern industrial sites, corporeality and early tantric religion in India, mineral resources worship and stone in tribal premodern India. Dr. Stein teaches Arts of Asia, South Asian Art, and Special Topics in Early Modern and Medieval Global Arts at SF State as well as Introduction to the Arts and a new multi-media studio/theory course entitled, Diachronic, at California College of Arts.
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