Sraman Mukherjee

Sraman Mukherjee, PhD (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta and University of Calcutta,2010) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at Ashoka University (Sonepat, India). Trained as a historian of colonial and early postcolonial South Asia, his work explores the interface between the past and the present in the constitution of the disciplinary and institutional domains of art history, archaeology, and museums; biographies of material traces (sites, objects, and monuments); and histories of the inter-Asian circulation of objects, ideas, and people. Before joining Ashoka University, Sraman held postdoctoral research positions at the International Institute of Asian Studies (Leiden), the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV, Leiden), and in the Department of Art History and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); and teaching positions in the Department of History at Presidency University (Calcutta, India) and in the School of Historical Studies at Nalanda University (Rajgir, India). His published articles and book chapters have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings, and institutional newsletters. Sraman’s ongoing research explores the possibilities of translation in art history, mapping material reconstitutions of circulating Buddhist objects and images across South and Southeast Asia.