Monica Juneja

Monica Juneja taught in the History Department of this College from 1975 to 1986, and then joined the Department of History at the University of Delhi as an Associate Professor. She has taught as Visiting Professor at Emory University, Atlanta; Universities of Vienna, Hannover, Bielefeld and Halle a. d. Saale prior to her present assignment as Professor of Global Art History at the Cluster "Asia and Europe" at the University of Heidelberg since January 2009.

Her areas of research spans the fields of European and Indian studies. They include practices of visual representation, the disciplinary trajectories of art history in South Asia, gender and political iconography in modern France, the interface between Christianisation, religious identities and cultural practices in early modern South Asia.

She has held Fellowships at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, German Academic Exchange Service, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Volkswagen Foundation.

Professor Juneja has authored and edited several books in English, French & German. Her best known works in English are Architecture in medieval India. Forms, Contexts, Histories New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001; Peindre le paysan. L‘image rurale dans la peinture française de Millet à Van Gogh, Paris: Editions du Makar, 1998.