Dr. Shriya Patnaik, PhD

About

PhD in International History and Politics from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)—Summa cum laude, Lecturer, Research Fellow at the University of Bern, Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Fellow and Doc.CH Scholar

1) Website: https://www.shriyapatnaik.com
2) Institutional Profiles: https://worldhistory.columbia.edu/content/shriya-patnaik | https://www.ifn.unibe.ch/programme/personendaten/patnaik_shriya/index_ger.html
3) Project Pages: https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/207197 | https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/research-centres/gender-centre/re-constructing-and-re-imagining-matriarchal-community-mahari?fbclid=IwAR3DhETftyILaR1ywEeYdMCBdxgRwc9mCnwlwu_Iv6L6eP8Whae9tABCHGg

Employment

• University of Bern Postdoc Research Fellow
  2026 - Present
• Utkal University Adjunct Lecturer
  2025 - Present
• Dance Chronicle Journal Editorial Board Member
  2025 - Present
• Editing Press Academic Fellow
  2025 - 2026
• Pierre du Bois Foundation Research Associate
  2024 - Present
• Geneva Graduate Institute Gender Centre Doctoral Fellow
  2022 - Present
• Swiss National Science Foundation Doc.Ch Doctoral Research Fellow
  2022 - 2024
• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Teaching Assistant
  2021 - 2022
• Swiss Network for International Studies Research Scholar
  2021 - 2021
• The Brookings Institution (India Center) Development Officer
  2018 - 2019
• Ugam Education Foundation Outreach and Development Consultant
  2017 - 2018
• Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscripts Library Research Assistant
  2015 - 2016
• New York City Council Legislative and Communications Assistant
  2015 - 2016
• Columbia University in the City of New York Graduate Teaching Assistant
  2015 - 2016
• Supreme Court of India Legal Intern
  2013 - 2013
• Government of India India - Ministry of Home Affairs Research Intern
  2012 - 2012
• Future of Minority Studies Project Research Assistant
  2011 - 2014
• Cornell Language Acquisition Lab Research and Language Archiving Assistant
  2011 - 2014
• Cornell University - Office of the Assemblies Student Administrative Assistant
  2011 - 2012

Education

• Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies PhD (Summa cum laude)
  2019 - 2025

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (40)

• Voicing the Last Maharis: Orality and the Politics of Devadasi Sexual Regulation Projects in India
  Dance Chronicle 2026 DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2026.2722593
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• Voicing the Last Maharis: Oral Testimonies and the Politics of Devadasi Sexual Regulation Projects in Colonial and Postcolonial India
  Dance Chronicle 2026
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• Special Issue Editor
  Dance Chronicle 2026
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• Embodied Orality as Counter-Archives: Disrupting Orientalist and Nationalist Imaginations of the Mahari-Devadasi in Colonial and Postcolonial India
  Dastavezi | the Audio-Visual South Asia 2026
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• Introduction to the Special Issue
  Dance Chronicle 2026 DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2026.2727340
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• The Sexual Regulation and Bodily Disciplining of Mahari-Devadasis in Colonial and Postcolonial India
  Les techniques ont-elles une patrie? 2025
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• Temple Dancer, Prostitute, Celibate Nun?: The Shifting Position of the Mahari-Devadasi from Late Colonial India to the Early 21st Century
  2025
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• Presenter at IHEID Conference
  Revisiting History and Anthropology: Fieldwork, Archive, Temporality 2025
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• Panelist, “Performance and Gender After Empire,” Panel at ECSAS 2025
  European Conference on South Asian Studies 2025
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• Panelist at 2025 Madison Annual Conference on South Asia
  Madison 53rd Annual Conference on South Asia 2025
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