Dr Stephen A. Murphy

Stephen holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London, where he is now the Director of the Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, and Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art. He specializes in the art and archaeology of Buddhism and Hinduism in first millennium CE Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand and Laos. Prior to joining SOAS, Stephen held curatorial and research posts at the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and is the author of Buddhist Landscapes of the Khorat Plateau, a study of Buddhism in Northeast Thailand and Central Laos.