Lisa N. Owen

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book Chapter

• ***. (2022). Mountain and Cave: Hindu Rock-Cut Architecture and its Symbolisms. A History of Hindu Architecture in India. 8 123-139. Berlin, Studies in Asian Art and Culture—EB Verlag.
• Owen, L.N. (2021). Neither Cave nor Temple: Creating and Commemorating 'Place' in the Ritual Landscapes at Badami. South Asian Rituals in Archaeological Context: Power, Presence, and Space. 213-230. Delhi, Routledge.
• ***. (2016). Local Bhakti or Monastic Advertising? The Functions of Medieval Jain Rock-Reliefs in Tamil Nadu. The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti. 423-442. Pondicherry, École française d'Extrême-Orient.
• ***. (2015). Transforming the Landscape: Questions of Medieval Reuse and Worship at Ancient Jain Rock-Cut Sites near Madurai. Negotiating Cultural Identity: Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History. 110-138. New Delhi, Routledge.
• Owen, L.N., Brancaccio, P. (2013). Relationships between Art, Architecture, and Devotional Practices at Ellora. Living Rock: Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain Cave Temples in the Western Deccan. 126-137. Mumbai, Marg Publications.
• Owen, L.N., Lindquist, S.E. (2011). Text and Image: Identifying Ellora's Jain Deities. Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle. 225-247. New York, London, Delhi, Anthem Press.
• Owen, L.N., Ray, H.P. (2010). Absence and Presence: Worshipping the Jina at Ellora. Archaeology and Text: The Temple in South Asia. 96-123. New Delhi, Oxford University Press.

Book Review

• Owen, L.N. (2021). Book Review of Padma Kaimal, Opening Kailasanatha: The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. (80/4 (Dec 2021)) 477-8.
• Owen, L.N. (2020). Book Note on Kimberly Masteller, Masterworks from India and Southeast Asia. Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2016. 46 (3) 434-435. Religious Studies Review.
• Owen, L.N. (2018). Book review of Vidya Dehejia and Peter Rockwell, The Unfinished: Stone Carvers at Work on the Indian Subcontinent. New Delhi: Roli Books, 2016. 138 (1) 172-174. Journal of the American Oriental Society.
• Owen, L.N. (2016). Book Note on Cathleen Cummings, Decoding a Hindu Temple: Royalty and Religion in the Iconographic Program of the Virupaksha Temple, Pattadakal, Woodland Hills, CA: SASA Books, 2014. Religious Studies Review. 42 (4) 307-308.
• Owen, L.N. (2016). Book Note on Tiziana Lorenzetti, Understanding the Hindu Temple: History, Symbols and Forms. Berlin: EB-Verlag, 2015. Religious Studies Review. 42, no.1 54-55.
• Owen, L.N. (2016). Book Review of Sacred Objects in Secular Spaces: Exhibiting Asian Religions in Museums. Edited by Bruce M. Sullivan. Bloomsbury, 2015.. Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion (Online). http://readingreligion.org
• ***. (2015). Book Note on Vinayak Bharne and Krupali Krusche, Rediscovering the Hindu Temple: The Sacred Architecture and Urbanism of India. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. Religious Studies Review. 41, no. 1 33-34.
• ***. (2014). Book Note on Debra Diamond, ed. Yoga: The Art of Transformation. Washington DC: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 2013. Religious Studies Review. 40, no. 3 170.
• **. (2014). Book Note on James Bennett, ed. Realms of Wonder: Jain, Hindu, and Islamic Art of India, including Nepal and Pakistan. Adelaide, S.A.: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2013. Religious Studies Review. 40, no. 4 230.
• Owen, L.N. (2013). Book Note on Piotr Balcerowicz, ed. Art, Myths and Visual Culture of South Asia. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2011. Religious Studies Review. 39, no. 3 191.
• Owen, L.N. (2011). Book Review of John E. Cort's Framing the Jina: Narratives of Icons and Idols in Jain History . Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Journal of Asian Studies. 70, no. 1 271-73.
• Owen, L.N. (2010). Book Review of Vidya Dehejia's The Body Adorned: Dissolving Boundaries Between Sacred and Profane in India's Art. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 130, no. 1 99-101.
• Owen, L.N. (2010). Book Review of Walter Spink's Ajanta: History and Development, Volume Four - Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Journal of Asian Studies. 69, no. 1 317-19.

Encyclopedia Article

• Owen, L.N. (2021). Khandagiri/Udayagiri. The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa. John Wiley & Sons, Inc..
• Owen, L.N. (2021). Shravanabelagola. The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa. John Wiley & Sons, Inc..
• Owen, L.N. (2021). The multireligious caves at Ellora. Smarthistory. https://smarthistory.org/the-multireligious-caves-at-ellora
• Owen, L.N. (2019). Rock-Cut Caves. Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism. 697-705. Leiden, Brill.
• Owen, L.N. (2019). Sculpture. Brill's Encyclopedia of Jainism. 667-696. Leiden, Brill.

Journal Article

• Owen, L.N. (2010). Demarcating Sacred Space: The Jina Images at Kalugumalai. International Journal of Jaina Studies. 6 (4) 1-28.
• Owen, L.N. (2010). Kings or Ascetics? Evidence of Patronage in Ellora's Jain Caves. Artibus Asiae. 70 (2) 181-225.
• Owen, L.N. (2009). Rock-Cut Pillars at Ellora: Interpreting Form and Function. Kalā: The Journal of Indian Art History Congress. XV 35-55.
• Owen, L.N. (2009). The Jaina Rock-Cut Caves at Ankai-Tankai. Jñāna-Pravāha Research Journal. XIII 16-24.
• Owen, L.N. (2006). Depicting a Jain Assembly: Representations of the Samavasarana at Ellora. 34, no. 2 44-60.
• Owen, L.N. (2001). Constructing Another Perspective for Ajanta's Fifth-Century Excavations. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies. 24 (1) 27-59.
• co-author: Nina Roy. (1994). The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India. 5, no. 6 33-48.

Monograph

• Owen, L.N. (2012). Carving Devotion in the Jain Caves at Ellora. Leiden, Brill.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Marshall F. Wells Scholarship," sponsored by College of Fine Arts, UT Austin, State, Funded. (2004 - 2005).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Dean's Graduate Research Fellowship," sponsored by UT Austin, State, Funded. (2003 - 2004).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "M.K. Hage Endowed Scholarship," sponsored by UT Austin, State, Funded. (2001 - 2002).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "David Bruton Jr. Fellowship," sponsored by UT Austin, State, Funded. (2000 - 2001).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship," sponsored by US Dept of Education, Federal, Funded. (1998 - 1999).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "American Institute of Indian Studies Language Program Scholarship," sponsored by US Dept of Education, Federal, Funded. (1998 - 1998).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Foreign Language Area Studies Scholarship," sponsored by US Dept of Education, Federal, Funded. (1997 - 1998).

Grant - Research

• Owen, L.N., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award (SCA)," sponsored by College of Visual Arts and Design; Project Title: Rocks, Caves, and Divinity in Early Medieval Southern India, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2019 - 2020).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Fulbright-Nehru Research Award," sponsored by U.S. Department of Education and U.S.-India Educational Foundation, Federal, Funded. (2013 - 2014).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Rocks, Caves, and Divinity: Creating Places of Worship in Medieval Southern India," sponsored by Howard Foundation, Private, $30000 Funded. (2013 - 2014).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Defining Ritual Space through Imagery: Medieval Jain Rock-Carvings in Tamil Nadu," sponsored by American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Other, Funded. (2011 - 2012).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Charn Uswachoke International Development Fund," University of North Texas, $6700 Funded. (2008 - 2009).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Faculty Research Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2008 - 2009).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Gallery and Visiting Artist and Scholar Award," sponsored by CVAD, University of North Texas, $2121 Funded. (2008 - 2009).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2008 - 2008).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2007 - 2007).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Faculty Research Grant (RIG)," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2006 - 2007).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Fulbright-Nehru Research Award," sponsored by U.S. Department of Education and U.S.-India Educational Foundation, Federal, Funded. (2013 - 2014).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Rocks, Caves, and Divinity: Creating Places of Worship in Medieval Southern India," sponsored by Howard Foundation, Private, Funded. (2013 - 2014).
• Owen, L.N. (Principal), "Defining Ritual Space through Imagery: Medieval Jain Rock-Carvings in Tamil Nadu," sponsored by American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Other, Funded. (2011 - 2012).