Jerome Feldman, Ph.D.
Hawaiʻi Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ Emeritus Professor of Art History Jerome Feldman, Ph.D., is the author of the chapter “Patterns that Connect” in a new book, “Sea Art Southeast Asian Art,” published by Ana Gaspar & Antonio Casanovas OAA Singapore 2024. Co-authors include P. Bourgoin and W. Roebucks. The book is available at Arte y Ritual, and the first printings are being sold in Paris.
The book is about the origins and interrelationships of art styles from Tribal Southeast Asia and what is now South China, to Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It is the first time a publication has extensively discussed these relationships.
Feldman taught art history and photography at Hawaiʻi Pacific Å·ÃÀAƬ for 41 years, first at Hawaii Loa College (Hawaii Pacific and Hawaii Loa merged in 1992.) He received his Ph.D. in tribal art history from Columbia Å·ÃÀAƬ and has conducted field studies in remote islands of Indonesia and Polynesia. Feldman has lectured extensively and written books and articles on Tribal Southeast Asian, Micronesian, and Polynesian art and architecture. In the fall of 2004, he was the Slade Visiting Professor at Cambridge Å·ÃÀAƬ, England.
