Dipti Khera

Dipti Khera has graduate training in Art History, Museum Anthropology, and Architecture which has proved invaluable in expanding her understanding of images, objects, and monuments within their historical and contemporary milieu. Her dissertation, titled, “Picturing India’s “Land of Princes” Between the Mughal and British Empires: Topographical Imaginings of Udaipur and its Environs,” has been supported by fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, American Institute of Indian Studies, Yale Center for British Art, and Columbia University. Dipti served as an assistant curator for the exhibition “Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj,” that showcased for the first time eclectic silverware made by Indian craftsmen for European consumption and addressed changing notions of taste and design in nineteenth century South Asia. In 2011-2012 she was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and, at Yale, she will offer two undergraduate courses on the themes of cross-cultural encounters and the visualization of place and travel in South Asian art and history.