Faculty: Deborah Hutton
Office: Holman 337 | Phone: 2601 | Email: dhutton@tcnj.edu
Deborah Hutton, Associate Professor of Asian and Islamic art history, joined The College of New Jersey in 2004. Her specific area of focus is Indo-Islamic art, but she teaches a range of courses covering the arts of Central, South, and East Asia from the Bronze Age to the present. These courses include Arts of South Asia, Arts of East Asia, Arts of the Islamic World, and upper level seminars on subjects such as the history of photography in India. Deborah takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of art history and strives to incorporate innovative assignments into her courses. For example, her students in her fall 2007 Arts of Iran class researched and wrote the catalog to accompany the TCNJ gallery exhibit, Parable of the Garden: New Media from Iran and Central Asia.
Deborah's scholarship examines the relationships between art, identity formation, and intercultural exchange at the princely courts that ruled over the Deccan region of India between the 16th and early 20th centuries. Her current research project looks at the images that the celebrated late 19th-century Indian photographer, Raja Deen Dayal, took for the Nizam of Hyderabad. Her first book, The Art of the Court of Bijapur, which traces the development of painting and architecture at Adil Shahi Bijapur during the 16th and 17th centuries, won the American Institute of Indian Studies Studies Edward Cameron Dimock Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities, and was published by Indiana University Press in 2006. Deborah also co-edited Asian Art: An Anthology (2006), which is the first anthology devoted to Asian art. She is currently co-editing a follow-up companion volume to that work.
Between 2008 and 2010, Deborah will be co-administering (along with Jo-Ann Gross of the History Department) the Department of Education Title VI grant-funded project, Iran and Beyond, which seeks to expand the study of the greater Persian world at TCNJ.
Deborah received her PhD and MA from the University of Minnesota and her BA from Penn State University. She previously taught for the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea study abroad program and at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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