Monica Juneja

Monica Juneja is Professor of Global Art History at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg. She has been Professor at the University of Delhi, has held visiting professorial positions at the Universities of Vienna, Hannover, Zurich and Emory University, Atlanta. The awards and fellowships she has received include: Fellowships of the Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, The DAAD, the Getty Research Centre, Forum Transregionale Studien and most recently, the Opus Magnum award of the Volkswagen Foundation.
Monica Juneja has written extensively on transculturality and visual representation, the disciplinary practices of art history in South Asia, the history of visuality in early modern South Asia, heritage and architectural histories in transcultural perspective. Her book publications include Peindre le paysan. L’image rurale dans la peinture franҫaise de Millet à Van Gogh (1998); Architecture in Medieval India: Forms, Practices, Histories (2001); Universalität in der Kunstgeschichte? Theme Issue Kritische Berichte (2012, with M. Bruhn and E. Werner); Contextualizing Choices: Islamicate Elements in European Arts, (2012, with V. Beyer and I. Dolezalek); Archaeologizing Heritage? Transcultural Entanglements between Local Social Practices and Global Virtual Realities (2012, with M. Falser); Kulturerbe und Denkmalpflege transkulturell: Grenzgänge zwischen Theorie und Praxis ( 2013, ed. with M. Falser); Disaster as Image. Iconographies and Media Strategies across Asia and Europe (2014, with G.J. Schenk); Miniatur Geschichten. Die Sammlung indischer Malerei im Dresdner Kupferstichkabinett (2017, ed. with P. Kulhlmann-Hodick); EurAsian Matters. China, Europe and the Transcultural Object (2018 with Anna Grasskamp).
Two forthcoming works are: the monograph entitled Can Art History be made Global? Meditations from the Periphery, to be published with De Gruyter later this year, and Motherland: Pushpamala N.’s Woman and Nation, (edited with Sumathi Ramaswamy) shortly forthcoming with Roli Books.
Monica Juneja edits the Series Visual and Media Histories (Routledge), is on the editorial board of Visual History of Islamic Cultures (De Gruyter), Ding, Materialität, Geschichte (Böhlau), Ästhetische Praxis (Fink/ E.J. Brill), History of Humanities (University of Chicago Press), and co-editor of Journal of Transcultural Studies. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Walter-Benjamin-Kolleg at the University of Bern, the Tate-Hyundai Research Centre, London and the Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste that supports provenance research of objects acquired in colonial contexts.