Michael Willis Author, Editor & Illustrator

Akira Shimada is Associate Professor of Ancient India at State University of New York at New Paltz. He has authored a number of books and articles on Amaravati and Buddhist material culture of early India, including his 2013 publication Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stupa at Amaravati (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE). Michael Willis is leading Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) that is based in the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is the author of The Archaeology of Hindu Ritual: Temples and the Establishment of the Gods (Cambridge, 2009) and a number of other books on Indian art, archaeology and history.