Personen

Dr. Mallika Leuzinger

Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin

Regionaler Schwerpunkt:

South Asia

Foto von Dr. Mallika Leuzinger
Dr. Mallika Leuzinger

Positions

2025
Research Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
2021 - 2025
Research Fellow in Colonial and Global History, German Historical Institute, London
2022
Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow, IASH, University of Edinburgh
2020 - 2021
Fung Global Fellow, Princeton University
2020 - 2021
Visiting Researcher, Dept of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian region, HU-Berlin
2015 - 2020
Teaching Assistant in History of Art, University College London

Education

2015 - 2020
PhD in History of Art, University College London "Dwelling in Photography: Intimacy, Amateurism and the Camera in South Asia" (awarded Bayly Prize by Royal Asiatic Society)
2013 - 2014
MPhil in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies, University of Cambridge Thesis: Women and Photography: Gendering the Popular Archive
2010 - 2013
BA in History, University of Cambridge (awarded C.W. Crawley Prize for History at Trinity Hall) Part I of BA in Archaeology & Anthropology

Publications

Author in peer-reviewed journal

“Projecting empowerment: camera politics in and beyond twentieth-century South Asia” in Dastavezi – The Audio-Visual South Asia, Volume 4, 2022, pp. 8-44

‘Ummijaan’s pictures were nice’: thinking about Haleema Hashim’s photography” in Trans Asia Photography, Volume 10, Issue 1: Writing Photo Histories, Fall 2019 

“The Intimate Contract of Photography: Haleema Hashim’s Practice and its Afterlives” in Object – Graduate Research & Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 19, 2017, pp. 29-54

Author in edited volume

“Amateurism, or the strange and radical kinship of the camera” in Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India edited by Suryanandini Narain and Shilpi Goswami, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2025, pp. 407-440. 

“The conviviality of Haleema Hashim’s photography”, in WOMEN/PHOTOGRAPHY- Alkazi Foundation edited by Malavika Karlekar, August 2021

“Seeing double: the photographic lives of Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy” in PIX, Personal Paradigms Issue, 2020, pp. 86-93 

“From Dumka to New Delhi: Conversations”, chapter in Cadence and Counterpoint: Documenting Santal Musical Traditions edited by Johannes Beltz, Marie Eve Celio-Scheurer and Ruchira GhoseNew Delhi: Niyogi Press, 2015, pp.80-87 (co-authored with Mushtak Khan and Krittika Narula)

Editor of peer-reviewed journal

Object – Graduate Research & Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 20, 2018 (co-edited with Laura Spada Scalabrella)

Podcasts and public media

“European Photographs in the Illustrated Weekly of India, Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy (1959-1960), EMPIRE LINES, 17 Jun 2021 [18 minutes]

“The photographic lives of Debalina Majumdar and Manobina Roy”, enterpix, 25 April 2020 [3 minutes]

Curation

Twin Sisters with Cameras: an exhibition of photographs by Debalina Mazumder and Manobina Roy (co-curated with Sabeena Gadihoke and Tapati Guha-Thakurta) at Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, Kolkata, 24 Feb – 31 Mar 2022; India International Centre, New Delhi, 13 – 27 Aug 2022; Lalit Kala Academy, Lucknow, 3 – 12 Aug 2023; Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore, 18 – 25 Oct 2023; Indian Photo Festival, Hyderabad, 21 Nov – 5 Jan 2025, National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai, 9 – 26 October 2025

Assisted with the shows Viviane Sassen, Paul Strand, Beastly/Tierisch at Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2014 – 2015 

Languages

  • English: native
  • German: native
  • French: proficient