Forsyth Visiting Graduate Student
About
Dipti Sherchan is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago. Her doctoral dissertation examines contestations between artist-subjects and the nation-state over competing imaginaries of what it means to be modern that proliferated over time in Nepal during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The research attempts to unravel the complicated and long durée relationship between monarchy, modernity, and modernism in the global South. She is also interested in examining how institutional governance of art becomes a central site of negotiating issues of nationalism, gender, and indigeneity. She is also a founding member of Kalā Kulo, an initiative based out of Kathmandu which collaborates with artists, researchers, and activists on critically engaging with visual cultures, histories, and practices.
