Katie Lazarowicz, PhD
Adjunct
- Preferred Pronouns: she/her/hers
Lazarowicz holds a Ph.D. in Asian Studies from The University of Texas at Austin (2021). She teaches South Asian art history and religion - and is an Indophile in the extreme! Her dissertation, "Mithila Art after Nine Decades of Patronage,” tells the story of one of India’s most ubiquitous popular contemporary art forms and how it moved off the mud walls of village homes in rural Bihar and into the vibrant global marketplace where it thrives as both “folk art” and fine art today. As a Fulbright scholar in India she worked as a curator and apprentice painter as a part of her research. As an advocate for the communities she works with in India, she created community outreach programs in Austin, Texas: a CelebrASIA "Living Traditions" room, public screenings of original films from South Asia on textile production, animation, and Adivasi (tribal) stories.
Her first trip to India in 2010 marked her departure a previous life - corporate work in NYC. She completed a Master’s of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School in 2013 where she began intensive study of Hindi and Urdu. She has made annual trips to India for over a decade and looks forward to returning again at the first opportunity.
