Stanislaw J. Czuma
Art historian, educator, museum curator
Born Oct. 26, 1935, Warsaw, Poland.
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Master of Arts (M.A.), Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland); Banares Hindu University, University of Calcutta (India); Sorbonne University, Paris (France); Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968.
Career: assistant, Oriental Art, University of Michigan, 1962-64; Ford Foundation curatorial trainee, 1968-69, curator, Indian and Southeast Asian Art, 1972 -, Cleveland Museum (OH); curator, Oriental Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York City, 1969-72; adjunct prof., 1972-89, Maxeen J. Stone prof., Asian Art, 1989 -, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland.
Author: Gupta style bronze Buddha, 1970; A masterpiece of early Cambodian sculpture, 1974; Mathura sculpture in the Cleveland Museum Collection, 1977 Mon-Dvarati Buddha, 1980, The School of Kashmiri Ivories, 1988; museum collections arranger: Cambodian Art (with catalog), Asia Society Gallery, New York City, 1969, Permanent Indian Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Indian Art of the George P. Bickford Collection, Cleveland Museum, 1975, Kushan Sculpture (with catalog), Seattle Museum (WA), 1985-86.
Member of: Association of Asian Studies; Asia Society.
Honors: scholarships to India, Paderewski Foundation, 1958-60, National Defense Foreign Language, 1965-67.
Languages: Polish, English, French, Sanskrit.
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996