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Emma Natalya N. Stein

the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, United States

Emma Natalya Stein received her PhD in the History of Art at Yale (2017), and joined the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art’s curatorial staff in 2019. Her book, “Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples,” is forthcoming from Amsterdam University Press (2021), and her forthcoming exhibitions include “Prehistoric Spirals: Earthenware from Thailand,” and “Revealing Krishna: Journey to Cambodia’s Sacred Mountain” (from the Cleveland Museum of Art). She has curated “Power in Southeast Asia,” and created a robust online resource for the Southeast Asia collections area. Dr. Stein's research is grounded in fieldwork in India and Southeast Asia, where she documents and maps monuments in diverse landscapes.

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