Nimra Rizvi

Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • Early Modern South Asia
  • Material Culture
  • Circulation of Material Culture
  • Histories of Knowledge Production
  • Public Histories

Biography

Nimra has a PhD, an MPhil, and a Master’s degree in Medieval History from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has a Bachelor’s degree in History Honours from Lady Sri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, New Delhi.

She has earlier worked as a co-director at the Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival (MSLF), and as a post-doctoral research fellow at University College London (UCL).

Her research interests include Early modern South Asia, material culture, circulation of material culture and histories of knowledge production, and public histories.