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essays and book chapters
“Art History and the Political Ecologies of Life Breath,” in Art and Ecology, edited by Alan Braddock, Alexa Sekyra, and James Nisbet, forthcoming. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2024. (Revised version of “Art History and the Political Ecologies of Air,” Venti Journal 1, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 40–7.)
“The Hill that Bleeds When Wounded: Geoaesthetics and Embodied Stone in Early Modern Braj,” in Elemental Forces in Early Modern Culture: Properties, Combinations, and Transformations, edited by Claudia Swan, Rebecca Zorach, Thalia Allington-Wood, and Sophie Morris, forthcoming. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2023
“Das Paradies: The Anthropocene Extinction in Global Art History,” The Journal of Early Modern History (2023): forthcoming.
“Questionnaire on Diaspora and the Modern,” October 186 (Fall 2023): 76–89.
“For the Love of Land: Permaculture as Resistance at the Hakoritna Farm, West Bank,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, 47, no. 2 (June 2020): 53–58.
“‘Dead as a Dodo:’ Anthropocene Extinction in the Early Modern World,” TDR: The Drama Review 67, no 1 (2023): 126–35.
“A ‘Small’ Story of the Jasmine Flower in the Era of Global Botany,” in Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks, edited by Jennifer Ferng and Lauren Cannady, 247–72. Liverpool: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment and Liverpool University Press, 2021.
“How to See Water in an Age of Unusual Droughts: Ecological Aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, India,” in The Handbook of Resilience in Climate History, edited by Dagomar Degroot, Amy Hessl, and John McNeill, forthcoming. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
“Introduction: The Materiality of Liquescence,” in Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence, edited by Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati, 1–16. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. (with Venugopal Maddipati)
"Ecomoral Aesthetics at Vishram Ghat in Mathura: Three Ways of Seeing a River," in Water Design: Environment and Histories, edited by Jutta Jain-Neubauer, 58–69. Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2016.
“From New Spain to Mughal India: Rethinking Early Modern Animal Studies with a Turkey, ca. 1612,” in Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective, edited by Karl Kusserow, 94–113. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum and the Princeton University Press, 2021.
“Shangri La: The Archive-Museum and the Spatial Topologies of Islamic Art History,” in Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500–Present, edited by Deborah S. Hutton and Rebecca M. Brown, 163–83. New York: Routledge, 2016.
"The 'Effeminate' Buddha, the Yogic Male Body, and the Ecologies of Art History in Colonial India," Art History 38, no. 5 (November 2015): 916–39.
"Water is a Limited Commodity: Ecological Aesthetics in the Little Ice Age, Mathura, ca. 1614," in Water Histories of South Asia: The Materiality of Liquescence, edited by Sugata Ray and Venugopal Maddipati, 37–59. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
“Introduction: Translation as Art History,” in “The Language of Art History,” ed. Sugata Ray, special issue, Ars Orientalis 48 (2018): 1–19.
"Colonial Frames, 'Native' Claims: The Jaipur Economic and Industrial Museum," The Art Bulletin 96 no. 2 (July 2014): 196–212.
"Hydroaesthetics in the Little Ice Age: Theology, Artistic Cultures, and Environmental Transformation in Early Modern Braj, ca. 1560–70," South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 40, no. 1 (March 2017): 1–23.
"Is Art History Global? Responding from the Margins," in Is Art History Global? edited by James Elkins, 348–57. New York: Routledge, 2007. Coauthored with Atreyee Gupta.
other writings
“Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of an Art Historian, 2020−21,” The Quarantine Question, Art Journal Open, December 21, 2021.
“Vegetal Aesthetics in the Anthropocene,” Exh. Cat., Dissonant Matter, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, 2021, 9–15.
“Geoaesthetics and Embodied Devotion in Braj,” MARG 73, no 1 (September-December 2021): 47–55.
“Art History and the Political Ecologies of Air,” Venti Journal 1, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 40–7.)
“The Asian American Community at UC Berkeley Takes a Stand,” Hyperallergic, March 30, 2021.
“Job Charnock’s Tomb, Calcutta, ca. 1695,” TAKE on Art 1, no. 5 (January 2020): 45–47.
![“From Landscape to Land: Eco Aesthetics as Decolonial Imaginaire in Tulkarm,” 28 Magazine 12 (2018): 40–51. [Published in Arabic]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/538613b1e4b07d78543910c2/1609292730198-YBX8SAQ3J1D5TY244L0H/4.jpg)
“From Landscape to Land: Eco Aesthetics as Decolonial Imaginaire in Tulkarm,” 28 Magazine 12 (2018): 40–51. [Published in Arabic]
"Postcolonialism," in The Encyclopedia of Empire, edited by John M. MacKenzie, 1–3. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
“Would the Peepal Marry?” TAKE on Art: Ecology 3, no. 1 (January 2017): 31–33.
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