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faculty
swati chattopadhyay, associate professor
curriculum vitaespecialization
Modern architecture, the cultural landscape of British
colonialism, and
Post-colonial theory.
office hours
Arts 1145, on leave Spring Quarter 2007
phone
805 893 7581
B.Arch. Jadavpur University
M.Arch. University of Arizona
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Swati Chattopadhyay is an architect and architectural historian specializing
in modern architecture and the cultural landscape of British colonialism.
She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in
the spatial aspects of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities that
are capable of enriching post-colonial theory. Her awards include a National
Science Foundation Grant, two grants from the American Institute of Indian
Studies, a J. Paul Getty Fellowship, a Fellowship from the Swedish Collegium
for Advanced Study, and the Society of Architectural Historian’s
Founder’s Award. She is the author of Representing Calcutta:
Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny (Routledge, 2005),
and co-editor of a special issue of the PostColonial Studies
(Nov 2005) focusing on “the subaltern and the popular’. Her
current work includes a five-year UC Multi-campus Research Group initiative,
titled “The Subaltern-Popular Workshop”, (www.ihc.ucsb.edu/subaltern),
and two book projects titled "Unlearning the City" and "Envisioning
History."
