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Ariana Maki is the Associate Director of the UVA Tibet Center and Bhutan Initiative, serving as an instructor in the Departments of Art History and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She holds a PhD from Ohio State University and has previously taught at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on Bhutanese art, material culture, and digital humanities, emphasizing the intersections of art, text, and ritual in Buddhist practices.
She leads initiatives supporting Himalayan communities in cultural heritage preservation, including the Bhutan Cultural Library and the Life of the Buddha digital humanities project. Awards include two Fulbright U.S. Scholarships (2019–20 and 2024–25), an NEH-Mellon Fellowship, and grants from the Khyentse Foundation and Arcadia Fund.
Her teaching spans Asian art history, and she collaborates on projects like the Ronald M. Bernier Archive and the Takten Puntsokling monastery study. She is dedicated to open-access resources and capacity-building for Himalayan communities.
