Dr Mallika Leuzinger
Mallika Leuzinger joined the GHIL in November 2021. She holds a BA in History and MPhil in Gender Studies from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in History of Art from University College London. She has worked in the museum and heritage sector in India and Switzerland, and as a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and the Institute for Asian and African Studies at HU-Berlin. At the GHIL, she is putting together a book entitled Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia, and a new project on digital archives and the politics of crowdsourcing history.
Responsibilities at the GHIL
- Research Fellow in Colonial and Global History
Research Interests
- Postcolonial Modernity
- Visual and material culture in South Asia
- History of science and technology
- Media anthropology
- Gender studies
Education and Academic Background
| 2021 | Research Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences Vienna (IWM) |
| 2020–2021 | Visiting Researcher, Department for Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region, IAAW, HU-Berlin |
| 2020–2021 | Fung Global Fellow, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University |
| 2015–2020 | PhD in History of Art, University College London |
| 2013–2014 | MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies, University of Cambridge |
| 2010–2013 | BA in History, University of Cambridge |
Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships
| 2020 | Guest of the Institute Fellowship, Institute of Human Sciences Vienna |
| 2020–2021 | Fung Global Fellows Programme Postdoctoral Fellowship, Princeton University |
| 2018 | Peter E Palmquist Memorial Fund Grant for Historical Photographic Research |
| 2017 | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Research Support Grant |
| 2015–2018 | History of Art Research Studentship, University College London |
| 2013–2014 | Trinity Hall Research Studentship, University of Cambridge |
Honours and Distinctions
| 2021 | Bayly Prize for distinguished dissertation on an Asian topic, Royal Asiatic Society |
| 2013 | C.W. Crawley Prize for History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge |
Memberships and Affiliations
- “Beyond Social Cohesion: Global Repertoires of Living Together” (RePLITO), Berlin University Alliance 2021-2024
- Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM)
- European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS)
- British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS)
Publications
Monographs and Edited Volumes
with Laura Spada Scalabrella (eds), Object – Graduate Research & Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, 20 (2018)
Articles and Chapters
‘The Conviviality of Haleema Hashim’s Photography’ in Malavika Karlekar (ed), Women / Photography: Alkazi Newsletter (2020)
‘Seeing Double: The Photographic Lives of Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy’, PIX, Personal Paradigms Issue (2020), 86-93
‘“Ummijaan’s Pictures Were Nice”: Thinking About Haleema Hashim’s Photography’, Trans Asia Photography Review, 10/1: Writing Photo Histories (2019)
‘The Intimate Contract of Photography: Haleema Hashim’s Practice and its Afterlives’, Object – Graduate Research & Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, 19 (2017), 29-54
with Mushtak Khan and Krittika Narula, ‘From Dumka to New Delhi: Conversations’, in Johannes Beltz, Marie Eve Celio-Scheurer and Ruchira Ghose (eds), Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions (New Delhi, 2015), 80-87
Reviews and Miscellaneous Publications
Exhibition curation
co-curated with Sabeena Gadihoke and Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Twin Sisters with Cameras: an exhibition of photographs by Debalina Mazumder and Manobina Roy, Jadunath Bhavan, Kolkata (24 February – 31 March 2022) and India International Centre, New Delhi (13 – 27 August 2022), with an accompanying catalogue, Twin Sisters with Cameras, Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, Kolkata, 2022