Zsuzsanna Gulácsi
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| Born | (1966-04-10) April 10, 1966 (age 58) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Occupation | Religious art historian |
| Employer | Northern Arizona University |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Chinese name: 古樂慈; Persian name: سوزانا گولاچی; born on 10 April 1966) is a Hungarian-born American historian, art historian of pan-Asiatic religions. She is a professor of art history, Asian studies, and comparative religious studies at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Her teaching covers Early and Eastern Christian (Syriac and Armenian) art, Islamic art, with special attention to the medium of the illuminated book; as well as late ancient and mediaeval Buddhist art from South, Central, and East Asia.[1][2][3]
She is a specialist of Manichaean art, in addition, her research also focuses on the artistic heritage of other Silk Road religions such as Buddhism and East Syriac Christianity, with special attention to Manichaeism.[1]
Gulácsi went to the United States in 1990 in pursuit of a postgraduate education in Central Eurasian Studies and Art History and studied at Indiana University Bloomington. She received a double major PhD degree in 1998. From 1999 to 2003, she taught history of Central Asian artatSophia UniversityinTokyo, Japan. Then she joined the faculty of the Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion at NAU in 2003.[1] She has also published a number of articles and books.[4] She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities in 2016.[5][6] In 2017, she was invited by Frantz Grenet as a guest lecturer at Collège de France.[7]
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