Ananya Sikand (she/her or they/them)

I research modern and contemporary art history, with a focus on South Asia within broader transnational Asian and global contexts. Before coming to the UW, I was founder and director of Curated23, an art and design platform that re-created the experience of engaging with exhibitions within an online space. I have previously worked at art and cultural institutions around the world including the Seattle Asian Art Museum, USA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; the Siena Arts Institute, Italy; and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sanghrahalaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum), India. I co-founded and organize the Feminist Writing Graduate Research Cluster as well as the Dismantling the Canon Graduate Research Cluster, both funded by the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities.