SAAS Scholar in Residence Lecture

Dipti Khera is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History and Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her research and teaching focuses on early modern South Asia, integrating Indian Ocean and Eurasian geographies and engaging longue durée perspectives—from the medieval to the modern. Along with specializing in painted artifacts and early modern architecture, centered and radiating out of western India’s regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat, Khera has published on colonial taste and nineteenth-century design and contributed to policy reports on contemporary heritage landscapes. Khera is the author of The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century (Oxford and Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2020), which received the 2019 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize for the best book manuscript in Indian Humanities, awarded annually by the American Institute of Indian Studies. In 2023 she was co-curator (with Debra Diamond) of A Splendid Land: Paintings from Royal Udaipur, India, an exhibition organised by the National Museum for Asian Art (Smithsonian) in partnership with the City Palace Museum, Udaipur.