Architecture of the early centuries BCE and first millennium CE
Subhashini Kaligotla is an art historian of ancient and medieval South Asia. Her areas of expertise encompass the architecture of the early centuries BCE and first millennium CE, with specific research interests in sacred buildings, the agency of makers, spaces, and materials, text-image relations, and historiography. She is author of Shiva’s Waterfront Temples: Architects and Their Audiences in Medieval India (Yale University Press, 2022), a work that places the ingenuity of medieval Deccan Indian makers at its center. Her current book project, entitled Seeing Ghosts, is an exploration of the iconographies of death and the afterlife in South Asia and across the Indian Ocean. Subhashini Kaligotla webpage