Grantee Database

Asian Institutions and Specialists, Research Materials and Equipment Project

• 1978

to provide for the purchase of books, slides, photographs, and research material for donation to univeristies, schools, museums, and other qualified institutions and specialists in Asia. Institutions receiving assistance through this project included: Akademi Seni Rupa Indonesia, Yogyakarta; the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Bombay, India; the Philippine Education Theater Association, Manil; and the Siam Society, Bangkok, Thailand.

• 1975

to provide for the purchase of books, slides, photographs, research materials, and equipment for donation to universities, scools, museums, institutions and specialists in Asia

• 1974

to provide for the purchase of books, slides, photographs, research materials, and equipment for donation to universities, scools, museums, institutions and specialists in Asia

• 1973

to provide for the purchase of books, slides, photographs, research materials, and equipment for donation to universities, scools, museums, institutions and specialists in Asia

• 1972

to provide for the purchase of books, slides, photographs, research materials, and equipment for donation to universities, scools, museums, institutions and specialists in Asia

• 1970

to provide for the purchase of books, slides, photographs, research materials, and equipment for donation to universities, schools, museums, institutions and specialists in Asia

Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress

Country / Region:
• Indonesia

• 1978

to provide for the purchase of films documenting traditional cultural forms in Iraian Jaya for donation to the Library of the Asmat Museum

• 1975
• Museum Studies

to provide for the purchase and shipment of documentation equipment and supplies to be used in connection with the cataloguing and registration fo the museum's collection

• 1972
• Museum Studies

to provide assistance to the Crosier Fathers, Hastings, Nebraska, to provide staff training, books, documentation, equipment, and exhibition materials for the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.

Shashi Asthana

Country / Region:
• India

• 1978
• Archaeology
• India to United States

to conduct research on archaeological material form West Asia and Indus Valley in American collections and to meet with scholars and specialists in the United States.

George Dales

Country / Region:
• United States

• 1978
• Archaeology
• United States to India

to complete the manuscript of the final report on archaeological excavation conducted at Mohenjo Daro in 1964-65.

• 1964
• Grant to University of Pennsylvania, University Museum

Saifur Rahman Dar

Country / Region:
• Pakistan

• 1978
• Museum Studies
• Pakistan to United States

to study museum collections, operational procedures, and instalation tequniques and to visit public and private collections of art in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Asok Kumar Das

Country / Region:
• India

• 1978
• Visual Art
• India to United States

to participate in a symposium on Pahari painting held in September 1978 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in connection with the exhibition "Visions of Courtly India-The Archer Collection," and to survey collections of Asian art in the United States.

Louis Dupree

Country / Region:
• United States

• 1978
• Archaeology
• United States to China

to visit the People's Republic of China in order to survey archaeological sites, to meet with archaeologists, and to present lecture on Central Asian archaeology.

Fine Arts Department of Thailand

Country / Region:
• Thailand

• 1978
• Architecture
• Thailand to United States

to enable Buckminster Fuller, designer, Philadelphia, and Shoji Sadao, architect, New York, to develop a design for a structure to cover and protect archaeological sites in Thailand

Robert Fisher

• 1978
• Architecture
• United States to Afghanistan, India

to conduct dissertation research in India and Afghanistan on pre-Islamic architecture in conncetion with a program leading to the Ph.D. degree at USC.

Catherine Glynn

Country / Region:
• United States

• 1978
• Art History
• United States to India

to complete dissertation research in India on Rajput painting in connection with a program leading to the Ph.D. degree at USC.

Hwang Kee Won

Country / Region:
• Korea

• 1978
• Architecture
• Korea to United States

to complete a program of study leading to the Master of Landscape Architectutre degree at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

• 1977
• Architecture
• Korea to United States

to study in a program leading to the Master of Lanscape Architecture degree at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies

Country / Region:
• United States

• 1978
• United States to United States

to provide support for Takefumi Aida, Minoru Takeyama, Hiromi Fujii, Hiroshi Hara, Arata Isozaki, architects, Japan, to participate in an American lecture tour held in conjunction with the exhibition "A New Wave of Japanese Architecture: An International Exchange," organized by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and circulated to selected cities in the United States from September 1978 to january 1979.