CBS is pleased to welcome Dr. Robert Gordon as our new fellow.Dr. Robert Edward Gordon (link) is an Assistant Professor at the Fred Fox School of Music in the College of Fine Arts. He received his Ph.D degree from Department of Art History at the University of Arizona in 2015 with a dissertation entitled “The Heart in the Matter: Design, Belief and a History of Buddhist Architecture in America.” Trained as a philosopher and an art historian, his work encompasses a broad range of interests: Eastern art and philosophy, art and economics, freedom and its relationship to the fine arts, and humanistic geography. With an emphasis on the epistemologies of contemporary life, his writings investigate how the meanings and ideas embedded in the world (artworks, architecture, nature) are experienced in terms of the subjective attitudes, perceptions, and values of the individual. Hepreviously taught art history and philosophy at various colleges and universities over the last ten years and has also lectured at large corporations and museums on Baroque and Contemporary Art, as well as working in Chicago as a corporate art consultant. He is presently working with local museums and religious organizations to create exhibitions that will highlight the importance of Tibetan stupas located throughout the American Southwest. As a fellow affiliated with UACBS, he will engage in related projects and work for his current book Reality is Here: The Appearance of Buddhist Architecture in America, which investigates the scriptural foundation for Buddhist architecture and its development in an American setting.