Microworlds Lab, graduate assistant
Avrati Bhatnagar is a historian of modern India and the British Empire, with an investment in women’s studies, visual studies, and digital humanities. Her interdisciplinary research pushes the limits of the historical discipline by bringing together the study of the image and the textual archive to challenge existing scholarly understandings of colonial and post-colonial political culture. Prior to arriving at Duke, she received post graduate degrees in Visual Studies and Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University and University of Delhi, respectively.