Charlotte Gorant

Charlotte specializes in South Asian art history and archaeology, particularly visual materials from the ancient and early medieval periods. She is interested in religious themes and narratives as evolving discourses within images, sites, and textual sources. Charlotte's dissertation re-evaluates sculptures from the early Buddhist stūpa of Bhārhut and she has recently been awarded a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship in support of her field work in India. Charlotte received a BA in South Asian Religions from Bard College and an MA in the History of Art from SOAS, University of London. She worked as a research assistant for the digital lexicography project entitled 'The Buddhist Translator's Workbench' and is interested in brāhmī epigraphy. Charlotte has held several curatorial internships, including research for the Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia large-scale exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Pearls on a String Islamic art exhibition at the Walters Art Museum. She has forthcoming publications on visual representations of nāgas in early Buddhism. Her work has previously received support from the Steven Kossak Graduate Fellowship, the Provost Graduate Fellowship, the American Institute of Indian Studies Language Fellowship, and the C.V. Starr Graduate Fellowship.