Assistant Professor

Dr. Swati Goel has served at prestigious organizations in various capacities as a Curator, Academic Counsellor, Research Consultant, Convener, Doctoral fellow and an Assistant Professor (Guest) alongside her academic engagements. She earned a Ph.D. from the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU (2023). She also holds an M.Phil. in History from the School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi, an M.A in History from CHS, JNU and a B.A (hons.) in History from Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. Her core area of research is medieval Indian history, with special emphasis on the dynamics of the medieval Braj region. The title of her doctoral study is 'The Development of the Region of Braj: Bhakti Sects, Political Groups and the Merchants (16th to mid-18th Century). The work brings to the fore a history of sacred space intertwined with the themes of patronage, religion, commercial networks, mobilities, the exodus of deities, and environmental consciousness in its understanding of a region. She started her academic career as a Curator in 2016 at the American Institute of Indian Studies, where she worked on a project for Google Cultural Research Institute, curating Virtual Exhibition on various subjects consulting Catherin B. Asher archives. The exhibitions are published on GCI website. In 2017 she joined Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Delhi as a Research Consultant on a project where she became a part of a team constituting historians and architects, working on a publication and an exhibition on project ‘Celebrating Rahim-Khan-I Khanan’. The volume constitutes articles by academicians from around the world and diverse fields. She also had an opportunity to serve as a National Doctoral Fellow at ICSSR, Delhi, under a Centrally administered Full-time Doctoral Fellowship for 2019-2021. She worked as an Assistant Professor (Guest) at various colleges of University of Delhi and simultaneously as an Academic Counsellor at IGNOU for both Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses. She is a committed professional demonstrating a record for publishing excellence, conference presentations and research papers at various national and international conferences. Recently, a part of her research was released at the Sangam talk, under the aegis of the Ministry of Education. An annual International Conference is convened and organized by her since 2019 in Vrindavan and is thus widely covered in media and local newspapers of the region. She therefore is a recipient of ‘Braj Adhyeta Samman’ award given by NGO ‘Braj Sanskriti Shodh Sansthan’, 2018. She continues to engage herself in organizing academic conferences, cultural programmes and heritage walks in her research area.

Department of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (DLHS) Bengaluru

Qualification: B.A. ( Hons.),M.A.,M.Phil. ,Ph.D.