Robert Edward Gordon is an Assistant Professor in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona, where he facilitates interdisciplinary relationships throughout the university. He is a Fellow at the UA Center for Buddhist Studies and is affiliated faculty with the Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. Trained as a philosopher and an art historian, his work encompasses a broad range of interests: the canon of art and music, Eastern art and philosophy, art and economics, and humanistic geography. With an emphasis on the epistemologies of contemporary life, his writings investigate how the meanings and ideas embedded in physical objects (artworks, architecture, nature) are experienced within the subjectivity of the individual. He has taught art history and philosophy at various colleges and universities over the last ten years. His work can be found in The Wall Street Journal, Space and Culture, Catholic Arts Today, the Japanese American National Museum’s Traveling Exhibition, among others.