Current Research
British Art Network Bursary Awardee 2025-26: Tate and Paul Mellon Centre I secured £1,000 to carry out preliminary archival research in the Cambridge South Asia Archive on colonial-era hunting photography. I presented some preliminary findings at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Annual Conference on South Asia, 2026, as part of the panel on Ecological Imaginaries.
Research Groups
Founding Convenor, Unfinished Visions: A Collaborative Research Series on South Asian Visual Culture, Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), University of Edinburgh, October 2024 onwards
Along with Dr. Silvia Genovese, I convene a research-led series on visual methodologies and practices in South Asia. Please get in touch if you would like to be part of this research group.
Convenor, The Climate & Colonialism Reading Group, Paul Mellon Centre, London, 2023-2024
The Climate & Colonialism Reading Group is part of the multi-year Climate & Colonialism project led by Dr Sria Chatterjee at the Paul Mellon Centre. I led eight sessions of an interdisciplinary reading group exploring the intersection of climate and colonial histories through debates in art and visual culture.
The eight sessions were Thinking with: Water, Animals, Ice, Meat, Climate Coloniality, Extractivism, The Nutmeg’s Curse, Oil and the Graphic Novel
Editing
Board of Assistant Editors, Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities, Bankura University, India, May 2025 onwards
I have been invited to be on the Board of Assistant Editors for this international journal.
Editor, The South Asianist (Journal), University of Edinburgh, 2021-2022
I was part of the editorial collective for this peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Anisha Palat 