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Eloisa Penner (2024) studies modern Art History of South Asia. She earned her B.A. in the History of Art from Washington and Lee University before becoming a Boren scholar in Hindi language studies. She has worked on a mural restoration team in Mustang, Nepal, and as a researcher for the digital humanities project “Florence as it Was,” using 3D modeling to imagine medieval spaces. Ellie also worked on a research team studying Buddhist shrines in Ladakh, India.
Ellie is interested in how visual forms manipulate perspectives of world order. Her research looks into global commissions of Buddhist art in the 20th century and artistic networks that perhaps connected primarily through form.
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