Dr Sudeshna Guha holds a Ph.D. (1990) in Archaeology from Deccan College, Pune (India). She graduated in History (Hons.) from Delhi University (Lady Sri Ram College), and did her M.A. in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology at Deccan College. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the ‘Evolution of the Harappan State’. She is at present Affiliated Lecturer in South Asian History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge (U.K.), and Associate Professor of History, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education, Pune (India).

In addition to her education and training in South Asian history and archaeology, Dr Guha has a long experience of managing historical photographic collections, and researching on visual histories. In 1994–95, she research catalogued a section of the collection of nineteenth-century photographs from South Asia at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and, subsequently, from 1997 until 2005 curated the unique and extensive archive of archaeological and ethnographic photographs of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Cambridge University).

In 2000, she co-curated this Collection’s first in-house exhibition, Collected Sights.

Dr Guha has published widely on photography’s agency within knowledge formation on archaeological and ethnographic data, relationships between institutional archives and disciplinary praxis, and the ways in which archaeological evidence is often negotiated. Her most recent publication is an edited volume, commissioned by the Alkazi Collection of Photography, on The Marshall Albums: Photography and Archaeology (ACP/Mapin) is forthcoming.

Dr Sudeshna Guha