Stanley K. Abe is an art historian with Duke University and a specialist in Chinese art and Buddhist art. [1] He received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. [2] His book Ordinary images (2002) won the Freer Gallery/Smithsonian Institution: Shimada Prize. [3] Additionally, he served as editor in chief of Archives of Asian Art from 2011 to 2018. [4]