Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Curator Emerita, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
sinopoli@umich.eduOffice Information:
phone: 734.764.0484
Center for South Asian Studies; CSAS Faculty; CSEAS Faculty; Center for Southeast Asian Studies
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986 (Anthropology); M.A., University of Michigan, 1979 (Anthropology); B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1978 (Anthropology)
Highlighted Work and Publications
New Research on an old collection: studies of the Philippine Expedition (“Guthe”) Collection of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Carla M. Sinopoli
Name of Periodical: Asian Perspectives
Year of Publication: 2014
Besieged! Contemporary political, cultural, and economic challenges to museums in the academy as seen from Ann Arbor
Raymond Silverman, Carla M. Sinopoli
Name of Periodical: University Museums and Collections Journal (UMACJ)
Volume Number: 4
Year of Publication: 2011
Page Numbers: 19-31
98. The Himalayan Journey of Walter N. Koelz: The University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition, 1932–1934
Carla M. Sinopoli
In the fall of 1932, University of Michigan naturalist Walter N. Koelz traveled to northwest India to lead a scientific collecting expedition in the rugged Himalayan regions of Western Tibet. Some eighteen months later he returned to the United States with a remarkable collection of biological specimens and an array of objects—Buddhist paintings, ritual objects...
See MoreThe Himalayan Journey of Walter N. Koelz: The University of Michigan Himalayan Expedition, 1932-1934: Anthropological Paper no. 98
Carla Sinopoli
(with contributions by T. Joseph Leach and Rebecca Bloom)
Publisher: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Year of Publication: 2013
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Ancient India in its Wider World
Publisher: Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan
Year of Publication: 2008
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
41. The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey: Volume 1
Carla M. Sinopoli, Kathleen D. Morrison
Vijayanagara, the “City of Victory,” was the capital of South India’s largest and most successful pre-colonial empire from c. AD 1330-1565. This richly-illustrated volume reports on the results of a ten-year systematic regional archaeological survey in the hinterland or “metropolitan region” of this vast and well-preserved urban site. Detailed information is presented on the 380...
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Carla M. Sinopoli, Kathleen D. Morrison
Publisher: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Year of Publication: 2007
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
93. Wrapped in Beauty: The Koelz Collection of Kashmiri Shawls
Grace Beardsley in collaboration with Carla M. Sinopoli
This richly-illustrated volume examines the remarkable Kashmiri shawls of the Walter Koelz Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. Part I presents the history, production, and forms and ornamentation of Kashmiri shawls, focusing on how the social contexts of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries and the advent of the Jacquard loom impacted...
See MoreWrapped in Beauty: The Koelz Collection of Kashmir Shawls: Anthropological Paper, 93
Beardsley, Grace, in collaboration with Carla M. Sinopoli
Publisher: Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Year of Publication: 2005
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
Archaeology as History: South Asia
Carla Sinopoli
Publisher: Indian Council for Historical Research and Aryan Books
Year of Publication: 2004
Location: New Delhi
The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650
Carla M. Sinopoli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year of Publication: 2003
Location: Cambridge
Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year of Publication: 2001
Location: Cambridge
ES2. Imperial Imaginings: The Dean C. Worcester Photographic Collection of the Philippines, 1890–1913
Carla M. Sinopoli, Lars Fogelin (editors)
Over 1200 of Worcester's 4000+ infamous photographs are reproduced here for the first time. Also published for the first time is Worcester's descriptive catalog of photos, put into modern database form and linked to photos. Essays on "Dean Worcester and the Philippines," "Photography and the Philippines," and "Dean Worcester, Race and the Philippines," give a historical context to Worcester's...
Pots and Palaces: The Earthenware Ceramics of the Noblemen's Quarter of Vijayanagara
Carla M Sinopoli
Publisher: American Institute of Indian Studies and Manohar Press
Year of Publication: 1993
Location: New Delhi
Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics
Carla M. Sinopoli
Year of Publication: 1991
