Sanjukta Sunderason

Description

Sanjkta Sunderason is a historian of 20th-century aesthetics, working at the interfaces of visual art, left-wing thought, and historical transition. Her research focuses in particular on the entanglements between (left-wing) aesthetics and 20th-century decolonization in South Asia and across transnational formations in the Global South.

She studied History, a BA (Presidency College, Kolkata, India), MA and MPhil (both at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), before doing her PhD in Art History (Department of History of Art, University College University London, United Kingdom). Her primary specialization is in South Asia (India and East Pakistan/Bangladesh after 1971), and she works with transregional scales of Afro-Asian decolonization and Third World liberation movements in the 20th century.