How To Write About Mughal History

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1 Chanchal Dadlani 2341 Elizabeth Avenue, Winston-Salem, NC (305) Education 2009 Harvard University, Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture Dissertation: Twilight in Delhi? Architecture, Aesthetics, and Urbanism in the Late Mughal Empire Committee: Gülru Necipoğlu, David Roxburgh, T. Robert Travers, Ebba Koch 2004 Harvard University, A.M., History of Art and Architecture 1999 Columbia University, B.A., Art History and Archaeology Employment 7/2011-present Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History Department of Art, Wake Forest University 7/2009-6/2011 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University Grants and Awards National Endowment for the Humanities-Getty Research Institute Fellowship 2013 Visiting Fellowship, Yale Center for British Art (declined) 2013 Finalist, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Mellon Fellowship 2012 Archie Fund for Faculty Research, Wake Forest University (internal competitive grant) 2011 Penn Humanities Forum Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University Harvard University Graduate Society Dissertation Completion Fellowship Harvard South Asia Initiative Graduate Student Associate Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship 2006 Harvard South Asia Initiative Summer Research Grant Frederick Sheldon Fellowship for Dissertation Research Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Aga Khan Fellowship 2004 Damon Dilley Grant for Pre-dissertation Research 2003 Eastern Consortium for Persian and Turkish Fellowship Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies Publications Book Monument, City, and Empire: Architecture as History in Mughal India (manuscript in progress) Peer-Reviewed Articles Locating Urban Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Delhi, Emotion and Subjectivity in the Art and Architecture of the Early Modern Muslim Empires, ed. Kishwar Rizvi (submitted for review). Dadlani 1

2 Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century, in Ornament: Between Global and Local, eds. Gülru Necipoğlu and Alina Payne (Princeton, 2016). Transporting India: The Gentil Album and Mughal Manuscript Culture, Art History 38 (2015). The Palais Indiens of 1774: Representing Mughal Architecture in Eighteenth-Century India, in Ars Orientalis 39, Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century (2011). Book Chapters Beyond the Taj Mahal: Late Mughal Visual Culture, , co-authored with Yuthika Sharma, in The Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (Blackwell Companions to Art History Series), eds. F. Barry Flood and Gülru Necipoğlu (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015). Reviews, Previews, and Exhibition Catalogs Preview of After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India 1947/1997 at the Queens Museum, New York, artforum.com, January Review of Yael Rice, The Emperor s Eye and the Painter s Brush: The Rise of the Mughal Court Artist, ca , Dissertation Reviews (December 2013). Review of Paris-Delhi-Bombay at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, Artforum 50, 2 (October 2011). The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World, exhibition essay, co-authored with Ladan Akbarnia (Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums, 2005). Lectures and Presentations Invited University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Architectural Representation and the Construction of the Mughal Past, April 2016 Smith College, Future Fields Symposium, Situating the Mughal Eighteenth Century, March 2016 University of North Carolina, Greensboro, The Sufi and the Courtier: Shrines and Shrine Culture in Mughal Delhi, October 2015 Yale University, Emotion and Subjectivity in the Art and Architecture of Early Modern Muslim Empires, symposium, Locating Urban Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Mughal Delhi, May 2014 University of California, Berkeley, Nights of Architecture Series, Monumentalizing the Mughal Past, February 2014 Stanford University, Renaissances Focal Group, Art and Epistemology Between India and France: the A in-i Akbari and Visual Translation, November 2014 Cornell University, South Asia Lecture Series, Translating India in Image and Text: The Gentil Album of 1774, October 2013 Dadlani 2

3 Syracuse University, South Asia Center, A Frenchman in Faizabad: Jean-Baptiste Gentil and Mughal Art History, October 2013 Getty Research Institute, Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World, symposium co-sponsored with USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Translating, Transporting and Transforming Mughal History: An Illustrated French Translation of the A in-i Akbari, May 2013 North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies, The Amal-i Sālih and the Production of an Architectural Canon, February 2013 Harvard University, Ornament as Portable Culture: Between Globalism and Localism, symposium, Promiscuous Marble: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century, April 2012 Cooper Union, Modern Architecture Series, From Pondicherry to the British Raj: French India and British India in Comparison, March 2010 University of California, Irvine, Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition, symposium, Representing Architecture, Writing History: The Palais Indiens Album of 1774, October 2008 Refereed Architecture as History: Conceptualizing the Past in Nineteenth-Century Mughal India, American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) Biennial Symposium, November 2013 Found and Lost: Translating the A in-i Akbari in Image and Text, Colonial (Mis)Understandings: Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, , Centre for Overseas History (CHAM), Lisbon, July 2013 Rendering Piety in Mughal India: The Pearl Mosque of Delhi, The Substance of Sacred Place: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Locative Materiality, Kunsthistorisches Institut-Max-Planck- Institut, Florence, June 2013 Before the Archaeological Survey of India: Writing Architectural History in the Mughal Empire, Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, April 2013 Orthodoxy and Aesthetics in Mughal Architecture: The Moti Masjid of Alamgir I, Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) Biennial Symposium, October 2012 Jean-Baptiste Gentil and the Prefiguring of Hastings s Orientalist Regime, Indian Pluralism and Hastings s Orientalist Regime, University of Wales, July 2012 The Visual, the Textual, and the Construction of Authority in the Mughal Empire, Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Stanford University, March 2011 Drafting History: Architectural Representation in Eighteenth-Century India, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Lecture, Columbia University, February 2011 Dadlani 3

4 Between History, Ethnography, and Autobiography: the Gentil Album (1774) and Artistic Production in Eighteenth-Century India, College Art Association Annual Meeting, February 2011 The Last Flicker in the Lamp of Mughal Architecture : Reconsidering the Mausoleum of Safdar Jang, European Association of South Asian Archaeology and Art Annual Meeting, July 2010 Monumental Revisions: Mughal Architecture and Self-Representation in the Early Nineteenth Century, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, March 2010 Public and Service Lectures Rendering the Word: Calligraphy and Inscription in Islamic Art, public lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Of Paper, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, September 2012 The Alhambra and the Concept of Convivencia in Medieval Iberia, public lecture for the Secrest Series, Wake Forest University, January 2012 Teaching Art Humanities in the Columbia University Core Curriculum Program, Panel on the Columbia University Core Curriculum, Association for Core Texts and Courses Annual Meeting, April 2010 Shared Approaches to Teaching Art and Music Humanities, Seminar leader, Music Humanities Program, Columbia University, April 2010 Teaching Experience Wake Forest University, Art Department Assistant Professor 104 Topics in World Art 105 The History of World Architecture 203 Islamic Art and Architecture 204 South Asian Art and Architecture 205 The Architecture of Devotion in South Asia 206 Art and Empire: India & Europe, Imperial Islamic Architecture: the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals 208 Ottoman Art and Architecture 351 Topics in Gender and Art: Women, Art, and Islam Senior Thesis Advising: Mallory Allred: Globalization and the Sheikh Zayed Mosque of Abu Dhabi, Adviser Brittany Forniotis, Understanding the Architecture of Charity through Hospitals in the Early Modern Mediterranean, Co-adviser Caroline Nelson, John Constable s English Landscape Scenery, Second reader Columbia University, Art History and Archaeology Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer W3824 India and Europe, V3342 Masterpieces of South Asian Art and Architecture W1121 Masterpieces of Western Art Dadlani 4

5 Harvard University, History of Art and Architecture Instructor 97r Urbanism and Architecture in South Asia Curatorial Experience The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Early Modern Islamic World Arthur M. Sackler Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, 2005 Co-curated in conjunction with the Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) and the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston Academic Service Peer Reviewer, International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2013-present Executive Board and News Editor, Historians of Islamic Art Association, Member, Honor and Ethics Council, Wake Forest University, 2014-present Member, Exhibitions Committee, Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, , 2015-present Member, Steering Committee, START Gallery, Wake Forest University, , Member, Website Committee, Member, Visual Resources Center Committee, 2014-present Major Adviser, Art Department, Wake Forest University, 2011-present Lower-Division Adviser, Wake Forest University, 2014-present Research Languages French, Hindi, Persian, Urdu Fieldwork Architectural Sites: Cambodia, India, Spain, Thailand, Turkey Archival and Museum Collections: Austria, England, France, Germany, India, Ireland Dadlani 5