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 Research Assistant at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, working on the Museum's redevelopment of the archaeology galleries, and Affiliate Lecturer in South Asian History at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge (U.K.).

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 on histories of Indian archaeology. Her most recent publication is an edited volume, commissioned by the Alkazi Collection of Photography on The Marshall Albums: Photography and Archaeology (ACP/Mapin with support from the Archaeological Survey of India) 2010.

Dr Sudeshna Guha