Salila Kulshreshtha
Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Art and Art History
Affiliation: Visiting
Education: BA Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University; MA Jawaharlal Nehru University; PhD Jawaharlal Nehru University
Research Areas: Art and archaeology of South Asia; History of the Indian Ocean; Museums and Heritage Studies
Salila Kulshreshtha is a Visiting Associate Professor of History and Art and Art History at New York University Abu Dhabi. Trained as a historian of South Asia, Kulshreshtha teaches courses in the history and the art history program and in the Core curriculum. She received her PhD in History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Kulshreshtha has been a Shivdasani Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Hindu Studies (OCHS), University of Oxford.
Kulshreshtha’s research is interdisciplinary, making connections between history, archaeology, art history, and heritage studies. She is the author of the book, From Temple to Museum: Colonial Collection and Uma Mahesvara Icon in Middle Ganga Valley (Routledge: 2018). She has also co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Hindu Temples (Routledge: 2023). Salila's research interests include religious iconography and temple spaces in South Asia, colonial archeology, history of museums, material culture, cultural history of the Indian Ocean and heritage studies.