Santhosh Sadanandan
Santhosh Sadanandan
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
School of Arts & Aesthetics
Email
santhosh[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, ssanthosh1975[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

PhD (School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi), 2018

MFA Art Criticism (Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India), 2005

BFA Art History (Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Gujarat, India), 2003 

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Art History; Modern and Contemporary Indian Art; Philosophy; Art and Aesthetical Theories; Curatorial Studies; Critical Theories, Dalit Art

Experience

Assistant Professor at School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, 2012-2026
Academic Fellow at School of Culture and Creative Expressions, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, 2011-2012

Awards & Honours

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International Collaboration/Consultancy

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Best Peer Reviewed Publications

Decasting Caste: Spatiality and Sociality, in Critical Times, 8 (2),2025, August 2025, Duke University Press

A Case for Precarious Monuments, Arts of the Working Class, 11, 33, 2020 

Politics as Pedagogy, eflux Architecture, March 2020 

Questions on the Technologies of Fascism, Economic & Political Weekly, 51(3), 21-24, 2016

What was Modernism (in Indian Art)?, Social Scientist, 40 (5/6), 2012

Mapping the Trajectories of Minoritarian Aesthetics and Cultural Politics in InFlux: Contemporary Art in Asia, SAGE, 2013

Towards an 'Anti-History' of Indian Art: Nationalism and Modernity, Nandan: An Annual on Art & Aesthetics, 24, 2004

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

Para-Site and Public Art: Shaheen Bagh and the Reconstituting of Demos, Marg: A Magazine of the Art, Vol 77, Number 4, 2026 

Six Memos to the Present, in Mass Traffic, Mousse Publishing, Kunsthalle Berlin, 2023

Dalitization of Politics and Some Ruminations on the Commons, in State of Democracy in India: Essays on Life and Politics in Contemporary Times, Primus Books

Patents (if any)

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