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Akshaya Tankha made assistant professor at University of Washington
An Indian origin scholar, Tankha will start from September 2025.
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Pranavi Sharma - Thu, 11, Sep 2025
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Akshaya Tankha / Instagram
The University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design has appointed Indian-origin scholar Akshaya Tankha to join the Division of Art History as an assistant professor.
In total, the university appointed three new tenure-track faculty members. Amanda Lee and Leila Weefur will join the Division of Art. Each has been appointed as an assistant professor and will begin teaching in September 2025, the university said in its announcement.
Tankha is a historian of modern and contemporary art in South Asia. His research engages postcolonial and decolonizing approaches as well as ethnographic methods, with a focus on how religious, ritual, and secular understandings of image, space, and time animate works of art, photography, museums, and monuments in India.
His work has appeared in journals such as '21: Inquiries Into Art, History', and the 'Visual and South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies', as well as the art magazine 'Marg'. Tankha earned his PhD in 2020 from the University of Toronto.
He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled 'Nagaland and the Art of Indigenous Presence in Postcolonial South Asia'. The study examines how ideas such as the sentience of material and space, found in the work of artists, cultural practitioners, and curators in the Indian state of Nagaland, expand understanding of contemporaneity in art outside metropolitan contexts. It also considers the political significance of aesthetics in Indigenously inhabited and contested borderlands of South Asia.
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