Parshati Dutta awarded Getty postdoctoral fellowship

Posted on Friday 17 April 2026

Connected Teams: Practicing Transcultural Art Histories under the Conditions of Ecological Crises and Digital Transformations: India, Latin America, and Europe, a transregional research programme supported by Getty through its Connecting Art Histories Initiative, which links teams in South Asia (Centre for Studies in Social Science Calcutta, India), South America (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia), and Europe (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max Planck Institute).

The wider programme explores art history through transcultural and eco-critical approaches, rethinking the relationship between artistic production and ecology, including the ecologies of the research process itself. It operates on the premise that objects are neither stable nor exclusively human-made, and instead foregrounds the dynamic relations among environments, objects, monuments, heritage, and landscapes across multiple temporalities.

Within this framework, the project, Code-Switching to Cosmopolitanism: An Architectural Analysis of the Mughal–Kachhwaha Transculturation, c. 1562–1707, examines the architectural entanglement that emerged from 150 years of matrimonial, military, and political alliance between the Sunni Muslim Mughal dynasty and their Hindu Rajput allies, the Kachhwahas. 

Congratulations Parshati!

Photo provided by Parshati Dutta