Senior Professor of Global Art History Prof. Dr. Monica Juneja

Selected Publications

• Can Art History Be Made Global? Meditations from the Periphery. Berlin: deGruyter, 2023.
• “Crafts and the Spiritual. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, The Indian Craftsman”, in Why Art Criticism? A Reader, eds. Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022: 52-61.
• Motherland, Pushpamala N.’s Woman and Nation, ed. with Sumathi Ramaswamy. New Delhi: Roli, 2022.
• “Reading culture through art - Jacob Burckhardt in the twenty first century”, in: Burckhardt. Renaissance, eds. Andreas Beyer, Susanna Burghartz and Lucas Burkart, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2021: 174-190.
• “The Right to Imagine“, in: Das Museum der Zukunft: 43 neue Beiträge zur Diskussion über die Zukunft des Museums, ed. Joachim Baur, Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, 2021: 161-166.
• “Transkulturalität verstehen. Monica Juneja und Christian Kravagna im Gespräch“, in: Transkulturalität/Interkulturalität: Konzepte, Methoden, Anwendungen, eds. Martina Engelbrecht, Gabriela Ociepa, Berlin/Bern/Wien: Peter Land, 2021: 59-74. (German Translation)
• „Liseuse from the Periphery“, in: Materialized Histories. Eine Festschrift 2.0, 20/10/2021, eds. Tina Asmussen, Eva Brugger, Maike Christadler, Anja Rathmann-Lutz, Anna Reimann, Carla Roth, Sarah-Maria Schober, Ina Serif.
• “Foreword”, in: Water histories of South Asia: the materiality of liquescence, eds. Sugata Ray and Maddipati Venugopal, London/New York: Routledge, 2020.
• „Das Bild betreten – oder das performative Selbst als Brücke zwischen Eigenem und Fremdem“, in: Das Eigene im Anderen – das Andere im Eigenen, eds. Rolf Bier, Matthew Cowan, Christian Dootz, Inka Nowoitnick, Hannover Städtische Galerie KUBUS, 2020.
• "Universal Principles and Intransigent Contexts: Wölfflinian Aesthetics and the History of South Asian Art“, in: The Global Reception of Heinrich Wölfflin’s Principles of Art History, eds. Evonne Levy and Tristan Weddigen, Washington DC: Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2020: 165-178.

Awards and Honours

2023  Meyer-Struckmann Prize by Faculty of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine Universität, Düsseldorf
2020  Opus Magnum by the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany, for the book Can Art History Be Made Global? Meditations from the Periphery
2017  Visiting Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices)
2015  Fellowship of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2014  Visiting Professor, University of Zurich, Heinrich Wölfflin Lectures in Art History
2012  Visiting Scholar, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence
1999–2002  Fellowship of Volkswagen Foundation, Germany
1997–2000  Short term fellowships, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris
1997  Research Fellowship, Graduiertenkolleg, University of Bielefeld
1992–1994  Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
1991  Research Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1982–1984  Scholarship of the Goethe-Institut (German language course)
1981–1985  Doctoral Research Scholarship of the French Government
1975  Lala Ram Mohan Prize, Delhi University, for standing first in the Masters Programme

Memberships and Other Functions

2021–  Member, International Editorial Board, The Journal of Architecture
2011–  Theme Editor, Encyclopedia of Asian Design, vol. IV, Global and Regional Themes and Issues in Asian Design (Berg Publishers)
2010–  Series Editor, Visual and Media Histories (Routledge)
2010–  Editor, Transcultural Studies (E-Journal of the Cluster Asia and Europe)
2010–  Member Scientific Advisory Board of the Research Group (BMBF), Europa durch Europäer von außen gesehen. Transfer und Transformation der Europabilder evangelischer Missionare im Kontakt mit dem Anderen, 1700-1970, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, University of Mainz
2009–  Expert Reviewer, German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn
2007–  Member,  Editorial Board, Werkstatt Geschichte (Klartext Verlag)
2007–  Expert Reviewer, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Bern
2006–7  Member, Advisory Committee for History, NCERT, New Delhi
2005–6  Academic Advisor to international project 1000-Idee. Die Welt des Islam, Georg-Eckert Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung, Braunschweig
1998–99  Academic Advisor to Eicher Gallery, New Delhi (Exploring Art History)
1997–  Editor, The Medieval History Journal (Sage Publications)
1991–  Several advisory and visiting functions (teaching, exhibitions, films), National Museum, National Gallery of Modern Art, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, all New Delhi and the Mohile Parekh Centre for Visual Arts, Mumbai

Recent Lectures

“Undoing the Magic of 1989 – Transcultural Art History as Radical Critique”, on November 12, 2021, Keynote at The Berlin Graduate Symposium in Modern and Contemporary Art History: Transcultural Perspectives in Art (History), FU and HU Berlin, November 12-13, 2021.
“Potential Stories: Tracking the Lives of Concepts in Global (Art) History”, Rothermund Memorial Lecture, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, November 19, 2021.
“Modernism’s Relational Geographies – Global (Art) History with and beyond the Nation”, Annual Lecture, German Historical Institute, London, November 5, 2021.
“The Kaiserin and the Sultan’s Garden. Mythical Geographies, Material Encounters and the Making of Europe”, Keynote at the Summer School Beyond Borders – Entangled History. Crossover Zagreb/Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Badisches Landesmuseum, September 3, 2021.
“Disciplinary Thresholds – Art History and Ecological Imaginaries”, Keynote at the 26th European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) in Vienna, July 26, 2021.