Salomi Matur

Associate Professor
Department: Art History
Dodd 206C
Address2: UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone: 310 825 6706
Email: mathur@ucla.edu

Saloni Mathur, who received her PhD. in Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York in 1998, brings both art historical and anthropological perspectives to her teaching and research. Her areas of interest include the visual cultures of modern South Asia and the South Asian diaspora, colonial studies and postcolonial criticism, the history of anthropological ideas, museum studies in a global frame, and modern and contemporary South Asian art. She is author of India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Display (UC Press, 2007), editor of The Migrant’s Time: Art, Dispersal, and Difference (forthcoming, Yale University Press/Clark Art Institute), and co-editor (with Kavita Singh) of No Touching, Spitting, Praying: Modalities of the Museum in South Asia (forthcoming, Routledge India). Professor Mathur has also written about the work of the contemporary Indian artist, Vivan Sundaram, and received awards and fellowships for her research from the Yale Center for British Art, the Getty Grant Program, the Clark Art Institute, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and the Social Science Research Council of Canada. She previously taught at Vassar College and the University of Michigan, before joining UCLA's faculty in 2001.