Prof. Shivaji K Panikkar
had been the Head, Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda. His research and publications are in the areas of pre-modern and modern Indian art. His books include Saptamatrka Worship and Sculpture: An Iconological Interpretation of Conflicts and Resolution in the ‘Storied’ Brahmanical Icons (1997), Twentieth Century Indian Sculpture: Last Two Decades (edited) (2000), Towards A New Art History: Studies in Indian Art (co-edited) (2003), Art of Ancient India: Contextualizing Social Relations (co-edited) (2004), Art of Medieval India: Contextualizing Social Relations (co-edited) (2005), and several exhibition catalogues. Currently he is engaged in editing the books, Art and Activism: Articulating Resistance and Elites and the Popular: Interfaces of India’s Art History. He has coordinated six national conferences around the theme of ‘New Art History’ from 2000 to 2007 in the Dept. of Art History and Aesthetics (MSU Vadodara) and one international conference on Archiving and Art (Feb. 2009). Apart from research on queer cultural practices, currently he is also engaged in setting up an institution named ARQ: Archive, Research and Queer Cultural Practice.

Blogs: 

http://queer-way-art.blogspot.com/
http://students-me-and-art-history.socialgo.com/

Santhosh Sadanandan
has completed his post-graduation in Art Criticism from the Department of Art History and Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, the M.S. University of Baroda. Author of a few seminal research articles in various publications and a few catalogue essays, for a while he has assisted UGC-ASIHSS Programme in the same department. He also assisted the teaching in the department, while he is working towards his Ph.D. in Art History. His area of work is in the field of critical historiography of Indian art historical studies and cultural practices in relation to minoritarian politics. He has co-coordinated national seminar Cultural Practice and Discourses of the ‘Minor’ in 2007, Department of Art History And Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, MS University of Baroda and The World, the Text and the Critic: Re-Membering Edward W. Said in 2003 at the Department of Art History And Aesthetics, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda. He is working towards completing his Ph.D. titled, Modernism, Modernity and Institutionalization of Culture and is currently working as a Visiting Faculty for Visual Arts at the School of Art and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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