Dr. Tsultemin is the Edgar and Dorothy Fehnel Chair of International Studies and an associate professor of art history at the Herron School of Art + Design, IUPUI.
She received her Ph.D. in Art History from UC Berkeley in 2009 with a dissertation on 17th to 20th century Mongolian Buddhist art titled Ikh Khüree: A Nomadic Monastery And The Later Buddhist Art Of Mongolia. She has served as a lecturer for the History of Art Department at UC Berkeley, as a visiting associate professor at the National University of Mongolia, and as a Kluge Center scholar at the Library of Congress. In 2014-15, she worked on Mongolian Buddhist art and texts funded by the American Council of Learned Societies.
Professor Uranchimeg (Orna) Tsultemin is historian of Mongolian art and the first Mongolian curator active in the field since 1993.
Awards
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A Monastery on the Move: Art and Politics in Later Buddhist Mongolia (Honolulu: Hawaii University Press, c2021) won the Art Book Award from the International Institute of Asian Studies/International Convention of Asia Scholars, based in Leiden, the Netherlands.
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One of eight faculty members awarded in 2022 by the Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellows Program which “accelerates and amplifies the work of outstanding Indiana University faculty poised to become national and international leaders in their respective areas.”
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Program to assist historically underrepresented faculty become successful in sponsored research and scholarly activity.
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An intensive and immersive program focused on aiding scholars in accelerating sustainable major interdisciplinary, collaborative projects that integrate arts, humanities, or qualitative social science approaches into their core research agenda.
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A grant for researchers in Buddhist studies from a collaboration between the Robert N.H. Ho Family Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.
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Twelve Kluge fellowships awarded annually at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress for researchers in the humanities and social sciences engaging in interdisciplinary projects that take advantage of the Library’s collections.
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Awarded by the Council on Library and Information Resources to support dissertations in the humanities with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Program for graduating and graduate students by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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Awarded by the former Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan for foreign students from. Now called the Monbukagakusho.
The Concept Of Mongol Zurag
Developed By Mongolian Art Historian Nyam-Osoryn Tsultem (1923–2001) During The Heyday Of The Country’s Twentieth-Century Socialist Regime. The Mongol Zurag Was An “Invention Of Tradition,” As .. (Orna’s Father TSULTEM Nyam-Osor)
Five Questions With Associate Professor Uranchimeg Tsultem
Uranchimeg "Orna" Tsultem Has Achieved International Acclaim In The Field Of Mongolian Art And Asian Art History…