KATE LINGLEY
Assistant Professor

Kate Lingley teaches Chinese art history.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2004.  Her research focuses on Buddhist votive sculpture of medieval China, with a particular interest in the social functions of religious art. Her dissertation was a study of donor figures as representations of the self-image of art patrons in the sixth century. Current research projects include the relationship between the representation of gender and the representation of ethnicity in Northern Dynasties Buddhist art, and the patronage practices of the Chen clan of southern Shanxi province. She also plans a future project on the administration of cave temple sites in the People's Republic of China, and the ways in which the government's tendency to treat these sites as primarily historical conflicts with their local usage patterns, which are largely religious.  She is the coordinator for the art history undergraduate e-mail list and student organization.