Saleema Waraich
Associate Professor Of Art History
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: Filene 101
Phone: TBD
Email: swaraich@skidmore.edu
Please note: Professor Waraich is on sabbatical for the 2024-2025 academic year.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
- M.A., South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997
- B.A., Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
REGIONAL FOCUS
- Asia, particularly South Asia and West Asia
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Saleema's research spans the early modern to the contemporary eras of South Asia, focusing on Mughal material and its political, social, and aesthetic reverberations through to the present. Her courses are animated by postcolonial theory, efforts to 鈥榙ecolonize鈥� a curriculum that emerges out of Euro-U.S. hegemonic practices, and attempts to address systemic racism and promote social and environmental justice.
COURSES
- Survey of Asian Art (AH 104)
- The Arts of South Asia (AH 206)
- Islamic Art and Architecture (AH 209)
- The Costs of Things: Environmental, Human, Personal (AH 267)
- Asian Pop! (AH 318)
- Decolonizing the Museum: Addressing Systemic Racism and Promoting Social Justice (AH 325)
- Senior Seminar: Orientalism (AH 375)
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
- 2022 (in press) "The Decorative, the Feminine, the Disruptive: Neo-Miniatures and the Satirical Paintings of Saira Wasim," in Women in the Arts and Archaeology of Asia, eds. Ling-en Lu and Allysa B. Peyton, David A. Cofrin Asian Art Manuscript Series, University Press of Florida
- 2022 鈥淐oncealing and Revealing the Female Body in European Prints and Mughal Paintings,鈥� in Prints as Agents of Global Exchange 1500-1800,鈥� ed. Heather Madar, Amsterdam University Press
- 2020 鈥淐ircuits of Exchange: Muraqqas and Illustrated Gift Books in the Early 20th Century,鈥� in Across the South of Asia: A Volume in Honor of Professor Robert L. Brown, eds. Robert DeCaroli and Paul Lavy, DK Printworld
- 2019 鈥淔rom Lahore to New York: Postcolonial Paradoxes in the Work of Female Neo-Miniaturists,鈥� Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring 2019): pp. 59-94
- 2019 鈥淎 City Besieged and a Love Lamented: Representations of Delhi鈥檚 Qila-i Mualla (鈥楨xalted Fortress鈥�) in the Eighteenth Century,鈥� in Resituating Mughal Architecture in the Persianate World: New Investigations and Analyses, ed. Mehreen Chida-Razvi, a Special Issue of South Asian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2019)
- 2017 鈥� 鈥楢uthenticity鈥� as Intermediary: Contested Memories of the Mughal Fort of Old Delhi,鈥� International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 7.1
- 2016 鈥淓uropean Fantasies and Awadhi Dreams: Exoticism, Eroticism, and the Desire for Power,鈥� in Orientalism, Eroticism and Modern Visuality in Global Cultures, eds. Joan DelPlato and Julie Codell, Ashgate
- 2012 鈥淐ompeting and Complementary Visions of the Court of the Great Mogor,鈥� in Seeing Across Cultures, eds. Dana Leibsohn and Jeanette Peterson, Ashgate
- 2011 鈥淟ocations of Longing: The Ruins of Old Lahore,鈥� Ruins: Fabricating Histories of Time, Third Text (Special Issue), ed. Padma Kaimal and Janice Leoshko, 25:6 (November 2011): 699-713
Reviews
- 2012 Book Review. Swati Chattopadhyay, Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny. caa.reviews (2012).
- 2001 Book Review. The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal, ed. Elizabeth Moynihan, Marg 53:2 (December 2001): 74.
Publications in Progress
- In review, The Politics of Wastefulness and 鈥榯he Poetics of Waste鈥�: Ruby Chishti鈥檚 Sartorial Interventions, in Gendered Threads of Globalization: Women, Textiles, and Fashion in Asia, ed. Melia Belli Bose, Manchester University Press
- In review, Images and/in International Relations, in Studying International Relations: A Companion Guide, ed. Russell Foster, eds. Hartmut Behr and Russell Foster, McGill-Queens University Press
- In process, Mughal Matters: Teaching Mughal Material, in Teaching South and Southeast Asian Art: Multiethnicity, Cross-Racial Interaction, and Nationalism, eds. Bokyung Kim and Kyunghee Pyun, Palgrave McMillian (Education Series)