Dipti Khera

Ph.D. (2013) History of Art, Columbia University; M.A. (2003) Museum Anthropology, Columbia University; M.A. (2000) Practice, Research, and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture, De Montfort University; B. Arch. (1998), Sir J.J. College of Architecture

Art and architecture of South Asia; Early modern visual and material culture of South Asia; Vernacular and non-European accounts of aesthetics, affect and visual-spatial practices; Cartographic cultures, art, and urban topography; Global art histories, theory and methodology; Historiography of cross-cultural encounters; Colonial visions, design and decorative arts; Collecting, museums and contemporary heritage landscapes; Postcolonial studies, modern architecture and comparative urbanism

The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities, American Institute of Indian Studies, 2019; Collaborator in the project “Global Horizons” run by Prof. Beate Fricke, University of Berne, awarded the European Research Council Grant, 2018-2023;
 Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship, NYU, Fall 2016; Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Fellowship Forum, Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 2015—2016; Postdoctoral Fellowship, South Asian Studies Council-MacMillan Center, Yale University—2012-2013 Andrew W Mellon Fellowship, Metropolitan Museum of Art—2011-2012 C.V. Starr Foundation Scholarship—2011-2012 Ittleson Fellowship for Non-Western Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts- National Gallery Of Art—2009-2011 Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Yale Center For British Art—Summer 2010 Junior Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies—Winter and Spring 2010 Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Center for British Art—Summer 2009 Museum Planning Team Grant and Conservation Planning Team Grant, The Getty Foundation, Conservation Institute—2008-2009; 2005-2006 National Graduate Fellowship, National Committee for the History Of Art-College Art Association—January 2008 Teaching, Curatorial, Summer Travel and Dissertation Research Fellowships, Columbia University—2003-2009 Marion Jemmott Fellowship, Taraknath Das Foundation—Spring 2003 Graduate Fellowship, Maharana Mewar Foundation—2001-2002 Charles Wallace Graduate Fellowship, De Montfort University—1999-2000 William Kaey Award for outstanding Masters Thesis, De Montfort University—2000

Select Publications:

The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century. Princeton University Press, 2020. See, https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691209111/the-place-of-many-moods [Awarded the American Institute of Indian Studies’ Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize for the best unpublished book manuscript in the Indian Humanities ]

“Lakes Within Lake-Palaces: A Material History of Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century India,” in Liquescent: Spatializing Water in Global South Asia, 1500-2000, edited by Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati, 60–92. New Delhi: Routledge, 2019. 

 “The Joys of Bonding,” in Visions of Paradise: Indian Paintings in the National Gallery, edited by Wayne Crothers, 108–117. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2018. 

“Arrivals at Distant Lands: Artful Letters and Entangled Mobilities in the Indian Ocean Littoral,” in The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art, edited by Christine Göttler and Mia M. Mochizuki. Special Issue of Journal Intersections: Yearbook for Early Modern Studies (Vol.15). Leiden: Brill, 2018, 571–605.

 “Marginal, Mobile, Multilayered: Painted Invitation Letters as Bazaar Objects in Early Modern India,” Journal18, no.1 (Spring 2016), http://www.journal18.org/527

“Jagvilasa: Picturing Worlds of Pleasure and Power in Eighteenth-Century Udaipur Painting," In A Magic World: New Visions of Indian Painting In Tribute to Ananda Coomaraswamy's Rajput Painting of 1916, edited by Molly Emma Aitken, 74–87. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2016.

 “Engraved Epics: Ornamented Metal Objects,” in Treasures of the Albert Hall, Jaipur, edited by Chandramani Singh, 58–67. New Delhi: Mapin Publishing, 2009.

“‘Designs to Suit Every Taste’: P. Orr and Sons and Swami silver,” in Delight in Design: Indian silver for the Raj, edited by Vidya Dehejia, 20–37. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 2008.

Jagmandir on Lake Pichola. Penguin publications and Maharana Mewar Foundation, New Delhi, Udaipur, 2002. Co-authored with Raju Mansukhani.

To access articles, see https://nyu.academia.edu/DiptiKhera

 

Courses:

“Eat, Pray, Love”: Painted Worlds in India

Arts of Mughal India: Monumental Histories and Material Pasts

From Kama to Kant: Sense and Sensuality in South Asian Arts

From Delhi to the Deccan: Art and Mobility in South Asia (co-taught with Finbarr Barry Flood)

Empires of Pleasure across Eighteenth-Century Cultures (co-taught with Meredith Martin)

South Asian Art I: Indus Valley to 1200

South Asian Art II: 1200 to the Present

Beyond and Between the Mughal and British Empires: Cross Cultural Encounters in South Asian Art, 1500-1900

Place, Landscape, and Travel in the Arts of South Asia