Forsyth Visiting Graduate Student Fellow
About
Ariana Pemberton is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at University of California, Berkeley, currently in Ann Arbor as a Forsyth Graduate Student Fellow. With a broad focus on the art and material cultures of Medieval South Asia and the Indian Ocean World, her interests include trans-regional exchange, non-human animals and the environment, and new-materialist methodologies. She is currently writing her dissertation on South Asian ivory carved objects and the ivory trade in the Indian Ocean world between the eighth and fifteenth centuries CE.