Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia

Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah Khan, Sylvia Houghteling and Yael Rice — Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia Friday, December 1, 2023 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST McKinney, 111 Thayer Street Join us for Crafting Cuisine: A Celebration of Food and Art in South Asia with subject matter experts Andrea Gutierrez, Sarah Khan, Sylvia Houghteling and Yael Rice. Andrea Gutierrez is an Assistant Professor of Instruction at The University of Texas at Austin. In her work, she researches Pre-modern South Asia, South Asian Food History, and Animal Studies in South Asia. She has delved into the historical intersections of food and spirituality in early India, and has not only explored diverse topics such as animal language in ancient texts and temple rituals but has also been recognized for their exceptional research through prestigious awards such as the ICAS Book Prize and the Getty Library Research Grant Sarah Khan is the EPE Director of Undergraduate Studies/Assistant Professor at Yale University. She researches gender and comparative politics, with a regional specialization in South Asia. In her work, she studies gender gaps in political preferences, and the barriers to women’s political participation and representation. She also researches strategies to prevent and address violence against women in the developing world. Sylvia Houghteling is an Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr. She specializes in early modern visual and material culture with a focus on the history of textiles, South Asian art and architecture, and the material legacies and ruptures of European colonialism. Houghteling’s first book, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India (Princeton University Press, 2022), a recipient of a College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant, examined the textiles crafted and collected across the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, showing how woven objects helped to shape the social, political, religious, and aesthetic life of early modern South Asia. Her ongoing research is concerned with questions of temporality and the unique material histories of the Indian Ocean trade. Yael Rice is the Chair of Architectural Studies/Associate Professor of Art & the History of Art and of Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College. She specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia and Greater Iran, with a particular focus on manuscripts and other portable arts of the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. Between 2009-12, she held the position of Assistant Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in that capacity curated exhibitions of court portraits from South Asia, ragamala paintings, and works by Rabindranath Tagore and other seminal Bengali artists of the early twentieth century.