Patrick Dowdey has conducted research in China and East Asia for over 35 years, first as a doctoral student in anthropology at UCLA and then as curator of the Mansfield Freeman Center Gallery at Wesleyan University (now the College of East Asian Studies). Beginning in 2004 he led summer research projects on the Derge Parkhang in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Region of Sichuan with Clifton Meador of Appalachian State University and Padma’tsho of Southwest University of Nationalities in Chengdu. An exhibition of prints, books, videos, and photographs from that project was mounted in 2008 at Wesleyan and in 2009 at Columbia College Chicago. He is currently a visiting scholar at Wesleyan.
Patrick Dowdey
