MemberMonica Juneja

Monica Juneja is Senior Professor at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies. She joined the University of Heidelberg as Professor of Global Art History in 2009. Over a number of years, she served as a member of the Steering Committee of the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context, and was its Co-Director from 2015 to 2017. From 2016-2018, she was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. Monica Juneja is a member of several international Advisory Boards including the Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Berne (since 2016), the Tate Hyundai Research Centre, Tate Modern, London (since 2019), Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations, University of Vienna (since 2023). She also the Deputy Speaker of the Advisory Council for Provenance Research of objects in German collections acquired during colonial times, under the aegis of the Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste. 

Monica Juneja completed her doctorate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Before joining Heidelberg University, she was Professor at the University of Delhi, India. She has held visiting professorial positions at the Universities of Hannover, Vienna, Zürich, and Emory University, Atlanta. She is the recipient of fellowships awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, the Getty Research Centre, the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Volkswagen Foundation. In 2023, she received the prestigious Meyer Struckmann Prize awarded for excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2024, the CAA honored her with the Distinguished Teaching Award for Art History. 
Monica Juneja has researched and published extensively in the field of Transcultural Studies, with a disciplinary focus in Art History. Her latest book, Can Art History be Made Global? Meditations from the Periphery (Berlin: De Gruyter 2023) received the Opus Magnum award of the Volkswagen Foundation. Monica Juneja edits the Series Visual and Media Histories (Routledge), is on the Editorial Boards of Ding, Materialität, Geschichte (E.J. Brill), Ästhetische Praxis (Brill), History of Humanities (Chicago University Press) and a Co-Editor of The Journal of Transcultural Studies (HeiUP).

She has been a member of Heidelberg University’s Academic Advisory Council since 2024.