Scholarship

Cartographies of Contestation: Kashi’s Visual Translations in Ritual and Empire, Presented at Symposium Works on Paper as Agents of Intermedial Translation and Cultural Exchange by the Colnaghi Foundation & Athena Art Foundation

Tripartite Frameworks and Genius Loci: A Visual Method for Reading Sacred Urbanism in Flux, Sixteenth International Conference on The Image 

Reading Sacred Urbanism in Flux: A Three Sphere System, forthcoming in The International Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design

Archiving Absence: Instagram and the Diasporic Genius Loci of the Sindhi Hindu Community, in press in the RAIS Journal of Social Sciences

Sacred Urbanism in Flux: Mapping Varanasi between Myth, Memory, and Modernity, Presented at the 9th Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts Conference 2025

Genius Loci in Diaspora: Reimagining Sindh Through Ritual, Memory, and Digital Space, a lyrical-theoretical meditation (In Progress with UMÁTICA. Journal on Image Creation and Analysis)

Flowing Through Time: The Ganga as a Ritual Medium of Temporal Multiplicity in Haridwar, Prayagraj, and Varanasi, Asian Temporalities: Chronologies, Seasons, Tenses

After Architecture: Hakim Al Akel and the Post-Material Genius Loci, in Arab Art, Barjeel Art Foundation

Religious Graffiti in Varanasi – Influences on Spatial Identity and City Expression, Anuario TAREA Dossier on Urban Art (Forthcoming)

Curating the Sacred: Polyvocal Translation and the Three-Sphere Framework in Museum Practice (Tate Papers -  in review)

Towards a Framework for Social Sustainability in Art and Luxury (Conference Presentation - Art, Luxury, and Sustainability: Markets in Transition Conference by the Sotheby’s Institute of Art)

AI, Eurocentrism, and Art Historical Research: Challenges of Bias and Hallucination in Digital Humanities, EVA 2026 Conference, Berlin (Conference Presentation - Forthcoming)

Graduated with Distinction with High Distinction in Curation and Dissertation

Recipient of three research grants, London Art History Society

Dissertation : Sacred Spaces in Flux: Negotiating Religion, History, and Urban Dynamics in Varanasi, India

Developed academic exhibition proposal: Threads of Transcendence – Art, Ritual and Spirituality, pitched to Louvre Abu Dhabi

Winner of three design competitions; praised for concept-driven jury presentations

Dissertation: Space, Symbol, Strategy in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Patronage as a Reconstructive Tool Post-Pandemic