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Kalyani Madhura Ramachandran is an art historian of South Asia. Her work focuses on ancient Buddhist stonework—particularly from the Deccan—and its transmissions across Southeast Asia. She has further interests in colonial and contemporary approaches to premodern South Asian sculpture and architecture. Kalyani completed a PhD at Columbia University under the supervision of Vidya Dehejia; an MPhil at the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship; and a B.A. at St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, where she won the Department of History Prize. She previously worked as a Research Assistant to John Guy in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and assisted with five exhibitions. Kalyani is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU Shanghai.
Watch a recent talk “On Stone and Sculpture: Isamu Noguchi and Early India” at Bangalore International Center.
