Padma Dorje Maitland

Padma Dorje Maitland is the Associate Director of the Institute for South Asia Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research examines modern South Asia through transnational networks, travel literature, and the history of emotions. His curatorial work centers artists and their practices while critically engaging histories of display, representation, and migration. Previously, he served as the Malavalli Family Foundation Associate Curator of Art of the Indian Subcontinent at the Asian Art Museum, following curatorial roles at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. He has also taught architectural history, theory, and criticism at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and art history and visual culture at the California College of the Arts. His publications and editorial projects include Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times (Archive Books) and the co-authored Cambridge University Press Element Feeling Modern: European Imperial Architecture. He holds dual doctoral degrees in South and Southeast Asian Studies and Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MArch from Princeton University.