SWATI CHATTOPADHYAY History of Art and Architecture 1234 Arts

SWATI CHATTOPADHYAY

History of Art and Architecture

1234 Arts Ph: (805) 893-7581

University of California, Santa Barbara Fax: (805) 893-7117

Santa Barbara, CA 93106 E-mail: [email protected]

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FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Modern and contemporary architecture: 19

-21

centuries, architecture and nationalism,

spatial theory, Art Deco, South Asian architecture

• Urbanism: infrastructure and public space, urban theory, colonial urbanism, South Asian cities

• British empire: cultural landscape of British colonialism, art and architecture of empire,

colonial material culture, cartography, sovereignty and insurgency

• Subalternity and popular culture: theories of subalternity, urban popular culture, art and

politics in South Asia

• Postcolonial and Critical Theory

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Architecture, 1997, University of California, Berkeley

Master of Architecture, 1989, University of Arizona, Tucson

Bachelor of Architecture, 1986, Jadavpur University, Calcutta

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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2012- Professor, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa

Barbara

2013- Affiliated Faculty, Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa

Barbara

2017 Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London

2011-2015 Chair, History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara

2011 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London

2007 Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala

2004-2012 Associate Professor, History of Art and Architecture, University of California,

Santa Barbara

1997-2004 Assistant Professor, History of Art and Architecture, University of

California, Santa Barbara

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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

2009- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Art Historiography

2017-2018 Member, Founder’s Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians

Member, Nominating Committee, Society of Architectural Historians

2011-2014 Editor, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH Online

Member, Executive Committee, Society of Architectural Historians

2010-2014 Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Transoceanic Studies Book Series, Ohio

University Press

2010-2011 Editor Designate, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Chair, Spiro Kostof Book Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians,

2005-2014 Director, The Subaltern-Popular Workshop, University of California Multi-

Campus Research Group

2008 Advisor, Buildings-Landscapes-Cultures program, University of Wisconsin-

Milwaukee

2003-2004 Chair, Founders’ Award Committee, Society of Architectural Historians

2001-2002 Member, Rosann S. Berry and Spiro Kostof Fellowships Committee, Society of

Architectural Historians

1998-1999 Member, Education Committee, Society of Architectural Historians

1985-1987 Architect, C.P. Kukreja and Associates Pvt Ltd, New Delhi

Architectural Consultant, Architecture+Design, New Delhi

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PUBLIC SERVICE

2016- Core Member, Calcutta Architectural Legacies

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PUBLICATIONS

I. Books:

Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture, co-edited with Jeremy White

(New York: Taylor and Francis, 2019, forthcoming)

City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space,

co-edited with Jeremy White (London: Routledge, 2014)

Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (Minneapolis: University of

Minnesota Press, 2012; hardback and paperback)

Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (London:

Routledge, 2005; paperback 2006)

II. Works in Progress:

• Geography of Small Spaces

This book is an invitation to shift our attention to the small scale. I look at those sites that

have long been considered insignificant because of their size or location, or the minor

role they seemingly play in economic and political histories. Such spaces are

discontinuous; never front and center. They are work spaces, storage spaces, cook rooms,

pantries, necessities, bottlekhanas--spaces with uncertain names and hazy genealogies.

Noticing small spaces is not easy, as they are expected to remain invisible, contained and

confined--cells, cages, shelves. Spaces of privacy and privation, they tremor with

unanticipated potential. These small spaces, I propose, harbor the capacity to spark affect

and foster connections in unexpected ways. My examples, drawn from British colonial

India, suggest new geographies to rethink empire as a global enterprise.

• Nature’s Infrastructure: British Empire and the Making of the Gangetic Plains,

1760-1880

This is the first book project that analyzes the mutually constitutive relation between the

Gangetic plains of northern India and the British empire. The most tangible proof and

long-lasting effect of British colonialism in India was the construction of an

infrastructural network that fundamentally altered the landscape of the Gangetic plains

between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The key instruments of this

transformation were not large capital cities or famous monuments, but a seemingly

ordinary network of provincial towns, roads, embankments, and canals. Nothing was

ordinary about this infrastructure, however: it channeled the waters of the Ganges,

created sites of administration, and connected upcountry provincial towns and cities of

the vanquished Mughal empire with maritime Bengal and outgoing trade. I focus on the

process through which information about the land was collected, represented, and utilized

to build this infrastructure, specifically the manner in which cartographic and

hydrological projects shaped the land, inaugurating new ways of seeing the plains in

aesthetic and productive terms.

• Calcutta/Kolkata Co-Lab

In collaboration with Arijit Sen (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Tania Sengupta (Bartlett

School of Architecture, London), Renee Chow (UC Berkeley) and Jeremy White (UC Santa

Barbara), this is a GIS-based project of architectural documentation, historical analysis, and

stories of Calcutta’s buildings and cityscape launched in 2018. It leverages my drawing

collection that includes hundreds of on-site documentation, and of buildings designed by three of

the most important architectural firms whose practice crossed the colonial divide: Mackintosh

Burn Private Ltd.; Martin Burn Pvt. Ltd.; and Ballardie, Thompson and Matthews.

III. Edited Journal Volumes:

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, Special Issue on State,

Space and Memory, vol 73, no 4 (Dec 2014).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 73, no 3 (Sep 2014).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 73, no 2 (June 2014).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, Special Issue on Critical

Directions in Chinese Architectural History, vol 73, no 1 (March 2014).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 72, no 4 (Dec 2013).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, Special Issue on War

Landscapes, vol 72, no 3 (Sep 2013).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 72, no 2 (June 2013).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 72, no 1 (March 2013).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, Special Issue on

Architectural Representations 2, vol 71, no 4 (Dec 2012).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, Special Issue on

Architectural Representations 1, vol 71, no 3 (Sep 2012).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 71, no 2 (June 2013).

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 71, no 1 (March 2013).

Special Issue of Urban History, “Suburbs in South Asia,” vol 39 no 1 (2012), guest-edited.

Special Issue of PostColonial Studies, “The Subaltern and the Popular,” vol. 8 no. 4 (Nov 2005),

guest edited with Bhaskar Sarkar.

IV. Articles and Essays:

“Colonial Port Cities and Patterns of Urbanisation in South Asia,” in Harald Fischer-Tiné and

Maria Framke, eds., Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia (London:

Taylor and Francis, 2019 forthcoming).

“Fabricating Community and Public Space in Kolkata’s Durgapuja,” Perspecta 52 (2019

forthcoming).

“Contemporary Architecture, Crisis, and Critique” in Critical Approaches to Contemporary

Architecture, co-edited with Jeremy White (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2019 forthcoming).

“Ephemeral Architecture: Towards Radical Contingency,” in Critical Approaches to

Contemporary Architecture, co-edited with Jeremy White (New York: Taylor and Francis, 2019

forthcoming).

“Infrastructure and Informality,” in Colin Marx, Nikhilesh Sinha and Nerea Amoros, eds.,

Informality and Transformation: Place-making, Politics, Infrastructure and Exchanges in

Informal Spaces (London: UCL Press, 2019 forthcoming).

“Roofscapes: A Speculative History of Terraces in Calcutta,” in Anuradha Roy and Melitta

Waligora, eds., Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination: Rethinking of Heritage (Delhi: Primus,

2018 forthcoming).

“Art Deco and Empire: The Residential Architecture of Ballardie, Thompson and Matthews,” in

Michael Windover and Brigitte Elliot, eds., Routledge Companion to Art Deco (London:

Routledge, 2018 forthcoming).

“Colonial Sovereignty and Territorial Affect,” Western Humanities Review (Fall 2018), 124-155.

“Claiming the Riverfront: Building the Prinsep Ghat in Colonial Calcutta,” Tekton, vol 3,

no 2 (Sep 2016): 22-35.

“Traverse, Territory and the Ecological Uncanny: James Rennell and the Mapping of the

Gangetic Plains,” in Karen Bishop, ed., The Cartographic Necessity of Exile (London:

Routledge, 2016), 89-109.

“The Globality of Architectural History,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

and JSAH-online, vol 74, no 4 (Dec 2015): 411-15.

“Seize the Definition,” Grey Room 61 (Fall 2015): 123-25.

“New Spatial Histories,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online,

Special Issue on Space, State and Memory, vol 73, no 4 (Dec 2014): 461-63.

“Exploring Mapping: Discussions with Swati Chattopadhyay and Derek Gregory,”

disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory, vol 23, Mapping, Article 9;

http://uknowledge.uky.edu/disclosure/vol23/iss1/9

“Cities of Power and Protest: Spatial Legibility and the Colonial State in Early

Twentieth-century India,” in Special Issue, Cities of Power, guest ed., Göran Therborn,

International Journal of Urban Science (Fall 2014), 1-13.

“The Politics of Popular Art in Twentieth-century India,” in Randy Martin, ed.,

Routledge Companion to Art and Politics (London: Routledge, 2014), 237-47.

“City Halls: Civic Representation and Public Space,” (with Jeremy White) in City Halls and

Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space (London: Routledge,

2014), 3-13.

“Politics, Planning, and Subjection: Anticolonial Nationalism and Public Space in Calcutta,”

in City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public Space

(London: Routledge, 2014), 199-216.

“Visualizing the Body Politic,” in Arijit Sen and Lisa Silverman eds., Making Place:

Space and Embodiment in the City (Indiana University Press, 2014), 44-68.

“What is Critical in Chinese Architectural History?,” Special Issue on Critical Directions in

Chinese Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-

online, vol 73, no 1 (March 2014).

“Metro Pattern: Art Deco Residences and Modern Visuality in Calcutta,” in Tapati Guha-

thakurta, Bodhisattwa Kar and Partha Chatterjee, eds., New Cultural Histories of India

(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014), 373-408.

“Architectural History and Spatial Imagination,” Perspectives on History 52, no 1 (Jan 2014):

32-3.

“Spaces of Conversation: The Avant-garde in 1920s Calcutta,” in Regina Bittner and Kathrin

Rhomberg, eds., Transcultural Avant-Garde Laboratory: The Bauhaus in Calcutta, 1922

(Berlin: 2013), 161-72.

“The Landscape of War,” Special Issue on War Landscapes, Journal of the Society of

Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 72, no 3 (September 2013).

“Imagining the Digital Future of The Public Historian” Roundtable Conversation,

The Public Historian, vol 35, no 2 (Spring 2013), 8-27.

“In the Shadow of Representation,” Special Issue on Architectural Representations 2, Journal

of the Society of Architectural Historians and JSAH-online, vol 71, no 4 (December 2012).

“Architectural Representations, Changing Technologies, and Conceptual Extensions,” Special

Issue on Architectural Representations 1, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

and JSAH-online, vol 71, no 3 (September 2012).

“Future of a Disciplinary Journal,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and

JSAH-online vol 71, no 1 (March 2012).

“The Historical Legacy of Suburbs in South Asia,” Urban History, vol 39, no 1 (2012): 51-5.

“Urbanism, Colonialism, and Subalternity” in Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne, eds., A World

of Cities: Urban Theory Beyond “the West” (London: Routledge, 2011), 75-92.

“Staging the Self: Photographic Representations of Benodini Dasi”, in Niharika Dinkar, ed.,

Visual Culture and Sexuality in Colonial India, Special Issue of Marg (June 2011), 15-30.

“Cities and Peripheries,” Historical Research vol 83, no 222 (Nov 2010), 649-671.

“The Art of Auto-mobility: Vehicular Art and the Space of Resistance in Calcutta,” Journal

of Material Culture vol 14, no 1 (Jan 2009), 107-139.

“Bourgeois Utopias? The Rhetoric of Globality in the Contemporary Suburban Landscape

of Calcutta,” Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies, Center for East and South

East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden (2009).

“Contours of the Obscene, Architectures of the Visible,” Third Text, vol 22, Issue 6

(Nov 2008), 769-785.

“Architecture of South Asia,” and “Taj-Mahal,” Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford,

2008).

“A Tryst with Capital,” Citation, May 2007, www.ihc.ucsb.edu/subaltern/citation/

“The Other Face of Primitive Accumulation: the Garden House in British Colonial Bengal,”

in Peter Scriver and Vikram Prakash, eds., Colonial Modernities (Routledge, 2007).

“Gram Theke Shahar” (Between Country and City), Anushtup (2005 Winter).

(with Bhaskar Sarkar), “The Subaltern and the Popular,” PostColonial Studies, vol. 8, no. 4

(Nov 2005).

“India,” “Charles Mark Correa,” “The Plan of New Delhi,” Encyclopedia of Twentieth-century

Architecture (London: Taylor and Francis, 2004).

“Kolkata,” in Frederick Asher, ed., The Art of India (New Delhi: Encyclopedia Britannica,

2003), 14-19.

“Itihashcharchaye Barir Naksha” (The Architectural Plan as Historical Artifact), Aitihashik

vol II, no 2 (April-Oct 2003), 49-56.

“Goods, Chattles, and Sundry Items: Constructing Nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian Domestic

Life,” Journal of Material Culture 7 (3) (Nov 2002): 243-271.

“Blurring Boundaries: The Limits of White Town in Colonial Calcutta,” Journal of the Society

of Architectural Historians, vol. 59, no. 2 (June 2000): 154-179.

“Expedient Forgetting: Architecture in the Late Twentieth-century Nationalist Imagination,”

Design Book Review (Fall 2000): 16-29.

“A Critical History of Architecture in a Post-Colonial World: A View from Indian Architectural

History,” Architronic, vol. 6, no. 1 (May 1997).

“Nineteenth-Century British Attitudes Towards Calcutta and Bombay,” S. J. Neary, M. S.

Symes and F. E. Brown, eds., The Urban Experience (London: E&FN SPON, 1994): 455-467.

“Interpreting a Vision: The Graduate Theological Union Library,” Design Book Review,

Issue 21 (Summer 1991): 23-24.

V. Research Blogs:

“The Ruins of Dilkhusa Palace, Lucknow,” British Library, 2018, forthcoming.

“The Mutiny Scroll,” British Library

http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2017/08/the-mutiny-scroll-add-37153.html

VI. Book Reviews:

“Colonizing, Decolonizing and Globalizing Kolkata” Buildings and Landscapes (2019

forthcoming)

“House but No Garden,” Buildings and Landscapes vol 22, no 2 (2015), 114-116.

“Tracking Modernity: India’s Railways and the Culture of Mobility”, Victorian Studies (2013),

719-721.

“Writing Popular Culture,” Book Review of Power in Print, Journal of the Economic and Social

History of the Orient, vol 51, no 5 (2008), 210-214.

“Facts on the Ground”, Interventions (Fall 2006).

“Modernity and Tradition: Contemporary Architecture in Pakistan,” CAA Reviews (October

2001).

“Kahn Libraries,” Design Book Review, Issue 21 (Summer 1991): 21-23.

FELLOWSHIPS and GRANTS

2018-19 Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

2017-18 Collaborative Grant, “Mapping Urban Materiality,” Interdisciplinary Humanities

Center, University of California, Santa Barbara

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

2016-17 Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

2015-16 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

2014-15 Collaborative Grant, “Bollywood 101: The Visual Culture of Indian Cinema”

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, Co-

PI with Shalini Kakar

Collaborative Grant, Subaltern-Popular Conference, “Popular Futures:

Affect, Archive, Action,” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University

of California, Santa Barbara

2009-10 Instructional Improvement Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara,

“Popular Culture and Modern Architecture in China”

2007-08 Conference Support Grant, “Democracy by Force?” University of California

Humanities Research Institute

Collaborative Grant, “Democracy by Force?” Interdisciplinary Humanities

Center, University of California, Santa Barbara

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

2006-07 Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

2005-09 The Subaltern-Popular Workshop, Multi-campus Research Group Grant,

University of California, Office of the President

2005-06 Faculty Award for Release Time, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center,

University of California, Santa Barbara

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

Regents’ Humanities Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

Conference Support Grant, “The Subaltern and the Popular,” University of

California Humanities Research Institute

Collaborative Research Grant, “The Subaltern and the Popular II – Re-visioning

Analytic Frames,” Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California,

Santa Barbara

2004-05 Instructional Improvement Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara,

“Contemporary Architecture in India”

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

Collaborative Research Grant, “The Subaltern and the Popular,”

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa

Barbara

2003-04 Instructional Improvement Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara,

“Modern Indian Visual Culture,” with Bhaskar Sarkar

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

2001-02 Senior Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies

2000-01 Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

1999-2000 J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, Getty Grant Program

Instructional Improvement Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara,

“Global Cities”

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

1998-1999 Instructional Improvement Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara,

“Modern Architecture and Urbanism”

Academic Senate Research Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara

Regents' Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

1995-1996 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant

1993-1994 Junior Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies

1996-1997 Spiro Kostof Fellowship, Department of Architecture, University of California,

Berkeley

1995-1996 Vice Chancellor for Research Fund Award, University of California, Berkeley

1994-1995 Graduate Humanities Research Grant, University of California, Berkeley

College of Environmental Design Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1990-1991 Stanley Tashiera Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

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HONORS and AWARDS

2018 Named Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians for “lifetime of significant

contributions to the field,” including “scholarship, service to the Society, or stewardship

of the built environment.”

2013 Nominated for the Margaret T. Getman Service to Students Award, University of

California, Santa Barbara. The award “recognizes university staff and faculty who have

demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to the general growth and development of

students and the quality of student life.”

2010 Nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Santa

Barbara.

2001 Founders’ Award, Society of Architectural Historians, for article titled, “Blurring

Boundaries: The Limits of White Town in Colonial Calcutta,” 2001. The

Founders’ Award is given annually for an article published by an emerging

scholar in the preceding two years in the Journal of the Society of Architectural

Historians that exhibits excellence of scholarship and presentation.

1997 University Commendation for Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of

California, Berkeley

1994 Ph.D. Committee Award, Department of Architecture, University of California at

Berkeley, for “outstanding scholarship, promise of a significant contribution to the field

of Architecture, and service to the Wurster community.”

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INVITED LECTURES, KEYNOTES and CONFERENCE PAPERS

2018 “Ephemeral by Design: Durgapuja in Kolkata,” SOAS, London, Sep

“Ephemeral Urbanism,” Symposium titled “Mapping Urban Materiality,”

University of California, Santa Barbara, May

“Urban Materiality,” Architecture History Redefined: Celebrating the Scholarship

of Dell Upton, Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, April

“Locating Art in the Colonial Milieu,” Sunwise Turn, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka,

Feb

2017 “Sovereignty Makes the Monument,” Western Humanities Alliance Conference,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov

“An Affective Field,” Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference,

Glasgow, June

“Colonial Sovereignty and the Making of an Affective Landscape,” Keynote,

Grounding Biopower: Inventions of Land and Landscape, Basel University, June

“Territorial Expansion and the Making of an Affective Landscape,” Landscape

and Power, Birkbeck College, London, May

2016 “Hacking the Urban Code,” Indian Institute of Architects Centennial National

Convention, Bengaluru, Dec

“Fabricating Community and Public Space in Indian Cities,” Institute of World

Cultures, Santa Barbara, Nov

“Reading Informality,” Bartlett School of Architecture, University College

London, Oct

“Reinterpreting Cities: Scale, Space, Subalternity,” Keynote Lecture, European

Association of Urban History, Helsinki, Aug

“A Good Shelf,” Small Spaces, Birkbeck College, London, May

“Seeing the City through a Glass, Darkly,” Dark Matter, American Association of

Geographer’s Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March

2015 “Globality of Global Architectural Histories,” Columbia University, Nov

“Ghats on the Ganges: Riverine Aesthetics and Politics in British Colonial India,”

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct

“Modalities of Indian Urbanism, 6

Distinguished Lecture, Kalyani University,

Aug

“Doing Architectural History of Modern India, Inaugural Lecture, 50

Anniversary Lecture Series, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Aug

“Genealogies of Public Space in India,” Nehru Memorial Museum and National

Library, New Delhi, Aug

“Civility, Civic Space and Empire,” Uppsala University, Sweden, April

“The Spatial Politics of Marginality,” Illinois Program for Research in the

Humanities, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March

“Art Deco and Empire: The Architecture of Ballardie, Thompson and Matthews,”

Carleton University, Ottawa, Feb

“Anomalous Spaces: Representations of Dance Performance in Colonial India,”

Bells of Change: Dance, Film and Contemporary Performance from India,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Jan

2014 “Of Small Spaces Forgotten,” Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, July

“Elementary Aspects of Indian Urbanism,” Keynote Lecture, Bartlett School of

Architecture, University College London, May

“Of Small Spaces Forgotten,” Center for Visual Culture Lecture Series,

University of Wisconsin, Madison, March

“Of Small Spaces,” Plenary Lecture, Envisioning the Indian City Conference,

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Jan

2013 “The Architecture of Utopia,” South Asia Conference, Madison, Oct

“Bookscapes: Trading Knowledge in Colonial India,” University of California,

Santa Barbara, Oct

“Conjuring India: British Views of the Subcontinent 1780-1870,” University of

California, Santa Barbara, August

“A Geography of Small Spaces,” University of Kentucky, April

“City and Country in South Asia,” Benjamin West Memorial Lecture,

Swarthmore College, April

“Urban Itineraries and Peripheral Spaces,” Penn Humanities Forum, University of

Pennsylvania, March

2012 “Unlearning the City,” ThinkSpatial, University of California, Santa Barbara, Jan

2011 “Arab Spring/American Autumn: Reclaiming the Public Sphere,” Panel

Discussion, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa

Barbara, Nov

“Representing Calcutta,” University of California, San Diego, May

“Colonial Infrastructure and the Making of the Gangetic Plains,” Yale University,

April

“Thinking Space and Power: Colonialism and the Present,” Roundtable Seminar

on “Postcolonial Positions: Nature, Space, Power,” Queen Mary, University of

London, March

“Traverse, Territory and the Ecological Uncanny,” Eighteenth-century Studies

Colloquium, Queen Mary, University of London, March

“Provincial Cosmopolitanism: Urban Culture and Small Towns in India,” Center

for Urban Studies, University of Leicester, Feb

“Words, Walls, and the Materiality of Civic Space,” School of Architecture,

Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University, Feb

“Writing on the Wall: Public Space and the Body Politic,” Department of

Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Feb

2010 “Visualizing the Body Politic,” Center for 21

Century Studies, University of

Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Oct

“Towards a Genealogy of Suburbs in India,” International Planning History

Conference, Istanbul, July

“Mapping a Mobile Land: Landscape and Governance in Colonial India,” Nineteenth-

century Modernity Colloquium,” Indiana University, April

“Cities and Peripheries,” Emory University, April

2009 “Cities and Peripheries,” Plenary Lecture, Cities: 78

Anglo-American Conference,

Institute of Historical Research, University of London, July

“Unlearning the Indian City,” Keynote Address, Conference on South Asian Urban

History, Oberlin College, May

“Fungible Geographies: Spatial Dynamics of the Durgapuja in Calcutta” in panel

titled, Calcutta’s Modernities, American Association of Geographers Annual

Conference, Las Vegas, March

“Infra-structure,” Lecture Series on State, Space, and Citizenship: Indian Cities in

the Global Era, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March

“Politics, Planning, and Subjection: the Town Hall as Public Space in Colonial

Calcutta,” International Planning History Conference, Chicago, July

2008 “Democratic Spatial Imagination and Land Acquisition in Contemporary India,”

Workshop on Voice, Violence, Democracy, Northwestern University, June

“Elite Townhouses in Nineteenth-century Calcutta,” University College Dublin, May

“Area Studies and the Problem of Space,” Roundtable: “Japan in the World”:

Then & Now (1990/ 2008), organized by the Japanese Arts and Globalizations

Multi-campus Research Group, University of California, Santa Barbara, May

“The Art of the Vernacular, the Vernacular as Art,” Symposium in conjunction with

exhibition, Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966), San Diego Museum

of Art, April

2007 “The Space of Popular Culture,” The Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 3: Legibility

and Legitimacy, University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov

“The Charm of Empire: Cricket and Cultural Critique,” Ambiguous Geographies

Conference, University of California, Riverside, Oct

“The Art of Auto-mobility,” Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala,

Sweden, May

“Bourgeois Utopias? The Rhetoric of Globality in the New Suburban Landscape of

Calcutta,” Lund University, Sweden, April

2006 “The Art of Mobility,” Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 2: Space, State, and

Statelessness, Nov

“Modernism in Calcutta,” Global Domesticities: Denationalizing the History of

Private Life, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Jan

2005 “Depicting Sex, Translating History,” New South Asia Conference, University of

California, Davis, May

“Building in the Metro Pattern: Art Deco Architecture in Calcutta, 1920-1960,” Society

of Architectural Historians Conference, Vancouver, April

“Bourgeois Utopias? The Rhetoric of Globality in the New Suburban Landscape of

Calcutta,” Vernacular Architecture Forum Annual Meeting, Tucson, April

2004 “Subalternity and Culture,” Cultural Studies and Gender Research Focus Group,

University of California, Santa Barbara, Dec

“Contours of the Obscene, Architectures of the Visible,” Symposium titled “Monumental

History: Photography and the Making of National Memory in India,” in conjunction with

exhibition, Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of

Representation, 1850-1900, University of California, Los Angeles, June

2003 “Inciting Space: Representing the Culture of Protest in Calcutta c. 1905,” City One

Conference, New Delhi, Jan

“Spaces of Terror, Erotics of Knowledge,” South Asian Languages Association Annual

Conference, San Diego, Dec

2002 “Elite Bengali Spatial Practice in Nineteenth-century Calcutta,” The City and the Archive,

Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, March

2001 “Translating Architecture: Classical Vocabulary and Spatial Politics in Nineteenth-

century Calcutta,” Department of Art History, University of Southern California, Los

Angeles, Oct

“The Space of Architecture,” Spring Lectures, Public History Program, University of

California, Santa Barbara, May

2000 “Rethinking the Spatial Problematic,” Society of Architectural Historians Conference,

Miami, April

1999 “Teaching Urban History,” Society of Architectural Historians Conference, Houston,

April

“Translating Architecture,” Cultural Analysis Colloquium, University of

California, Santa Barbara, Feb

1998 “Inside-Out: Public Space and the Speech Culture of the Bengali Middle-class in

Nineteenth-century Calcutta,” Conference on South Asia, Madison, Oct

“Inhabiting Hybridity: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-century Calcutta,” College

Art Association Conference, Toronto, Feb

1997 “Excavating Gendered Spaces in Nineteenth-century Calcutta,” National Women for

Historic Preservation Conference, Tempe, April

1996 “The Prospect of Calcutta: from Picturesque Paintings to Health Maps,” Society of

Architectural Historians Conference, St. Louis, April

“A Critical History of Architecture in a Post-colonial World,” Association of Collegiate

Schools of Architecture Conference, Boston, March

1994 “Drawing Socio-spatial Boundaries -- Privacy and the Public Domain in Nineteenth-

century Calcutta,” South Asian Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Feb

“Nineteenth-century British Attitudes Towards Calcutta and Bombay,” International

Association of Person-Environment Studies Conference, Manchester, June

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SELECTED PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

2018 Co-organizer, Symposium “Mapping Urban Materiality,” University of

California, Santa Barbara, May

Co-organizer, “Architecture History Redefined: Celebrating the Scholarship of

Dell Upton,” Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, April

2017 “Gardens and Territorial Sovereignty in Colonial India,” Object-Handling

Workshop, The British Library, April

Conversation with Maya Lin, University of California, Santa Barbara, Jan

2015 Participant, Workshop on “Multiple Modernities,” Carleton University, Ottawa,

Feb

2014 Curatorial Advisor, Exhibition titled, “Bollywood 101: The Visual Culture of

Indian Cinema,” Art, Design, and Architecture Museum, University of California,

Santa Barbara, Oct

Organizer, Conference titled, “Popular Futures: Affect, Action, Archive,”

Subaltern-Popular Workshop, Feb

2013 Co-chair (with Shalini Kakar) and Discussant, “South Asia Visual Culture, View

from Below?” South Asia Conference, Madison, Oct

Curatorial Advisor, Exhibition titled, “Conjuring India: British Views of the

Subcontinent, 1780-1870,” Davidson Library, University of California, Santa

Barbara, Aug-Dec

2012 Chair and Discussant, Panel on “Urban Infrastructure,” Urban History

Association Conference, New York, Oct

Participant, International Workshop, “Starlets and Starchitecture,” York

University, Toronto, March

2011 Panelist, “Critical Conversations in the Humanities,” Workshop organized by UC

Humanities Research Institute, Beirut, March

2010 Discussant, Panel on “Urbanism in India,” Urban History Association

Conference, Las Vegas, Oct

Co-chair (with Jeremy White), Panel titled, “Democratic Transformations, Cities,

and Civic Design: Promises and Limits of Town Halls as Public Space,”

International Planning History Conference, Istanbul, July

2009 Discussant, Graduate Student Colloquium, East Asian Studies Program, University of

California, Santa Barbara, June

Chair and organizer, panel titled, “Suburbs in South Asia,” Society of Architectural

Historians Annual Meeting, Pasadena, April

Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 5: Occupation, April

2008 Panelist, “Future of the Field,” Buildings--Landscapes--Cultures Program, University

of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, May

Moderator, Roundtable on “Insurgency,” Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 4:

“Techniques of Mobilization,” University of California, Santa Barbara, Sep

Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 4: “Techniques of Mobilization,”

University of California, Santa Barbara, Sep

Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Dissertation Workshop 3, Sep

Co-chair and Organizer of roundtable (with Jeremy White), “Planning Civic Pride: City

Halls and Spatial Politics,” International Planning History Conference, Chicago, July

Moderator, “Imported Planning Images,” International Planning History Conference,

Chicago, July

Organizer, International Conference: “Democracy by Force?,” Cairo, March

2007 Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 3: “Legitimacy and Legibility,”

University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov

Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Dissertation Workshop 2, University of California, Santa

Barbara, Sep

Discussant, Global Cities Conference, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala,

Sweden, May

2006 Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 2: “Space, State, and Statelessness,”

University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov

Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Dissertation Workshop 1, University of California, Santa

Barbara, Oct

Organizer, Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 1: “The Body,” University of California,

Santa Barbara, April

2005 Discussant, “The Space Between: The Cartographic Imagination of Japanese

Modernism,” University of California, Berkeley, Oct

Organizer (with Bhaskar Sarkar), Conference titled, “The Subaltern and the Popular II –

Re-visioning Analytic Frames,” University of California, Santa Barbara, Oct

2004 Co-organizer, Conference titled, “On the Edges of Development”, University of

California, Santa Barbara, Dec

Organizer (with Bhaskar Sarkar), Conference titled, “The Subaltern and the Popular,”

University of California, Santa Barbara, Nov

2003 Discussant, Panel on “Streets, Pathways, Passages, and Highways,” 18

Annual South

Asia Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Feb

2001 Faculty Advisor, Dissertation Workshop, Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, Feb

2000 Chair and organizer, Panel titled, “Between Text and Space,” Society of Architectural

Historians Conference, Miami, April

1999 Discussant, Panel on “Domestic Space in South Asia,” South Asia Conference,

University of California, Berkeley, Feb

Discussant, Panel on “Cyber Cities,” Cultural Turns 2 Conference, University of

California, Santa Barbara, Feb

1994 Organizer, Panel on “Public Space in Nineteenth-century Calcutta,” South Asian

Conference, University of California, Berkeley, Feb

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE, University of California, Santa Barbara

2016-19 Member, Program Review Panel

2018-19 Departmental Diversity Representative, Graduate Division

2017-18 Member, Search Committee for Latin-American Art Historian, Department of

History of Art and Architecture

2016-18 Graduate Advisor, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Executive Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2011-15 Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Chair, Executive Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Chair, Outreach and Development Committee, Department of History of Art and

Architecture

Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Architecture, Urbanism, and Visual Culture of the Ancient World

Search, 2014

Member, Art and Architecture of the Medieval World Search, 2014

2013-15 Co-chair, Lecture Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2010-11 Chair, FTE Planning Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2009-12 Co-chair, Senior Women’s Council

2009-11 Member, Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (CACSW)

2009-10 Chair, Committee on Tuition for Non-national Graduate Students, Academic

Senate

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2007-10 Member, Committee on International Education, Academic Senate

Co-Chair, Committee on International Education, Academic Senate, Spring 2009

2008-12 Member, Senior Women’s Council

2008-09 Member, Graduate Council, Academic Senate

2007-08 Graduate Admissions Advisor, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2003-06 Member, Advisory Committee, Women, Culture, and Development Program

2004-06 Graduate Advisor, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Executive Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2003-04 Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Chair, Lecture Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2002-03 Member, Search Committee for Asian Art Historian

Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

2001-05 Member, Executive Committee, South Asian Studies

2001-02 Chair, Lecture Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

1998-99 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Committee on “Post-colonialism

and the Arts”

Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Member, Search Committee for Modern Art Historian, Department of History of

Art and Architecture

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COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate Lecture Courses:

The City in History

The Landscape of Colonialism

Nineteenth-century Architecture

Twentieth-century Architecture

Modern Indian Visual Culture

Housing American Cultures

Survey of Architecture and Planning

Undergraduate Seminars:

Modern Architecture and Popular Culture

Architecture and Nature

Freshman Seminars:

Experiencing Architecture

The Sex of Architecture

Graduate Seminars:

Methods in the History of Art and Architecture (Proseminar)

Empire, City, and Material Culture

Urbanism, Colonialism, and Subalternity

The Infrastructure of Modernity

The Subaltern and the Popular

Empire

Cosmopolis

History, Nature, Space

Spatial Culture

The City as Material Culture

Anatomy of Spatial Conflict

After the Hegemony of the West

Postcolonial Theory

Colonial Space/Postcolonial Theory

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ADVISING

Ph.D. COMMITTEES

Advisor:

Alison Fraunhar, George Flaherty, Lucia Ricciardelli, Shalini Kakar, Mahlon

Chute, Mira Rai Waits, Wencheng Yan, Anna Myjak-Pycia (History of Art and

Architecture)

Current students:

Mallorie Chase, Benjamin Jameson-Ellsmore (History of Art and Architecture)

Committee Member:

Lynne Horiuchi, Amy Buono, Briana Bricker, Briana Simmons, Julianne Gavino

(History of Art and Architecture)

Sarah McLemore (English)

Joshua Neves, Athena Tan (Film and Media Studies)

Current students:

Laura Dizerega, J.V. Decemvirale, Holly Gore, Maggie Mansfield, Mallory

Baskett, Samira Fathi (History of Art and Architecture)

MINOR EXAM and FIELD EXAM COMMITTEES

Committee Chair:

Ruth Miller, Alexandra Schultz, Ashleigh Lynch, Samira Fathi, Taylor Van

Doorne (History of Art and Architecture)

Kim Monte, Anne Peterson (History)

Karen Bishop, Earl Perez-Foust (Comparative Literature)

Committee Member:

Alison Fraunhar, Kelly Turner, Mallorie Chase, Mallory Baskett, Benjamin

Jameson-Ellsmore (History of Art and Architecture)

M.A. COMMITTEES

Committee Chair:

Linda Teasdale, Mahlon Chute, George Flaherty, Mira Rai Waits, Andrea

McKenna, Samantha Chang, Briana Simmons, Wencheng Yan, Melina Gooray

(History of Art and Architecture)

Committee Member:

Alison Fraunhar, Cody Hartley, Amy Buono, Briana Bricker, Jing Cao (History of

Art and Architecture)