“Vidya Dehejia Professorship in South Asian Art” at Princeton University. Established by Brahmal Vasudevan and Shanthi Kandiah

Freer Medal
Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the National Museums of Asian Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Named for museum founder, Charles Lang Freer, the Freer Medal has been awarded fifteen times since its inauguration in 1956. The medal honors persons who, over the course of a career, have contributed in a substantial way to the understanding of the arts of Asia.

65th A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The series was founded “to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the Fine Arts”
Topic: The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855-1280 (published)

Padma Bhushan
Government of India
Awarded by the President of lndia for exceptional contribution to Art and Education.

Guggenheim Fellow & Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Columbia University, New York
Project: Visual Narratives. Discourse in Early Buddhist Art (published)

Hettleman Award
Columbia University, New York
for “Outstanding achievement in teaching and service to the Columbia University community.”

Senior Mellon Fellow
Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities
Columbia University, New York
Project: Saints of South India (published)