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About Niharika Dinkar

Dr. Niharika Dinkar worked as a photojournalist in New Delhi before getting her Ph.D. in art history, theory and criticism from Stony Brook University (S.U.N.Y.). She works on South Asian media and visual culture. Her research focuses on social histories of vision, material and visual cultures of light and intersections of art and technology.

Positions

2013 - Present Associate Professor, Boise State University
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Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2021 - 2021 Archival research on the crossover popularity of the Oriental snake dance in Ruth St. Denis’s “Cobra” (1906) and memorialized in early cinema by Loie Fuller’s “Serpentine Dance” (1896)
The Idaho Film Collection
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Honors and Awards

  • 2004 - Research and Documentation Award, India Foundation for the Arts
  • 2013-2014 - Fellow, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum Transregionale Studien, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
  • 2013-2014 - Affiliated Fellow, Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI), Berlin

Education

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Graduate Certificate - Cultural Studies, Stony Brook University
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Ph.D. - Art History, Theory and Criticism, Stony Brook University
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BA - English Literature, Delhi University ‐ Lady Shri Ram College
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M.A. - History of Art, National Museum, New Delhi
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Exhibition Reviews (7)

Presentations (8)

Includes conference presentations and invited talks