Monica Juneja
Senior Professor of Art History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany
Monica Juneja is Senior Professor of Art History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Shiv Nadar University, India. She has written extensively on transculturation 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 latest book Can Art History be Made Global? Meditations from the Periphery (De Gruyter, 2023), received the Opus Magnum award of the Volkswagen Foundation. She is also the recipient of the prestigious Meyer-Struckmann Prize awarded for excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the 2024 Distinguished Teaching of Art History Award of the CAA.
Monica Juneja edits the Series Visual and Media Histories (Routledge), is on the editorial boards of Ding, Materialität, Geschichte (E.J. Brill), Ästhetische Praxis (E.J. Brill), History of Humanities (University of Chicago Press) and co-editor of Journal of Transcultural Studies (Heidelberg University Publishing). She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Tate-Hyundai Research Centre, London, the Cluster of Excellence Eurasian Transformations (University of Vienna), The Max Weber Forum, New Delhi, and the German Lost Art Foundation that supports provenance research of objects acquired in colonial contexts.
