Laurie Margot Ross
M.A. '02
Laurie Margot Ross is a curator and ethnohistorian of performance and visual culture. Her research focuses on how performing objects interface with evolving Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism in South and Southeast Asia. She has organized several panels on Asian performance at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and serves on the board of AAS' Indonesia and Timor Leste Studies Committee. Her first book, "The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast" was published by Brill (2016) in their series, Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World.