10-9-98

HUNTINGTON NAMED VISITING SCHOLAR AT OXFORD

	COLUMBUS -- Susan L. Huntington, dean of The Ohio State 
University Graduate School and vice provost for graduate studies, 
will spend eight weeks this fall as a visiting scholar at Oxford 
University in London.

	Huntington, Distinguished University Professor and professor of 
art, has been named the Numata Visitor in Buddhist Studies at Oxford’s 
Balliol College.  The position is endowed by the Numata Foundation of 
Japan.  Huntington begins lecturing at Oxford Oct. 13.

	An authority on the art of India, Huntington will deliver one 
lecture and a seminar each week.  The theme of her presentations is 
“Reconsidering the Early Buddhist Art of India.”  She also will lecture 
at the Institute of Archaeology in London and at the University of 
London.  Huntington is working on her fourth book on the art of ancient 
India, this one on early Buddhist art.  Her current research departs 
from a century of scholarship on issues in Buddhist studies, such as the 
debate on the origin of the Buddha image.  Huntington’s work also 
focuses on issues of scholarly evidence, proof, and personal and 
cultural biases that affect scholarly inquiry.

	The winner of Ohio State’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 1985, 
she has earned more than 50 grants and fellowships, including a 1983 
Guggenheim Award, three Fulbright awards, and grants from the National 
Endowment for the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institution.  She 
joined the Ohio State faculty in 1972.

	Huntington was appointed dean of Ohio State’s graduate school 
and vice provost in 1996 after serving a year as interim dean and vice 
provost.  During Huntington’s stay in Oxford, Susan Reeser at the 
Graduate School will serve as contact person for the dean (292-6031; 
Reeser.1@osu.edu).  Associate Dean William A.T. Clark will have 
signature authority in the Graduate School.

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Contact:  Susan Huntington by e-mail at Huntington.1@osu.edu