Segura Garcia, Teresa

Teresa Segura-Garcia is a Tenure-track Professor of Modern South Asian History in the Department of Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (2016). Her research on the global, transimperial, and connected history of modern India explores intertwined themes: the global links of the Indian princely states; gender, masculinity, and race; the history of the body; and visual culture.

At UPF, she is co-principal investigator of the research project “Colonial war, gender and race in modern Spain, 1858–1918: Placing the Spanish case on the historiographical and digital global map (GENCOLWAR)”, funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (2025–2028), and a member of the Research Group on Empires, Metropoles and Extra-European Societies (GRIMSE). Her international experience includes a postdoctoral fellowship at the M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies in Delhi (2016) and visiting fellowships at Brown University (2019) and the American University of Beirut (2022).

Among her publications are the edited volumes Bodies beyond binaries in colonial and postcolonial Asia (Leiden University Press, 2024), alongside Kate Imy, Elena Valdameri, and Erica Wald, and Unexpected voices in imperial parliaments (Bloomsbury, 2021), co-edited with Josep M. Fradera and José María Portillo.

Teaching and supervision

Her teaching encompasses undergraduate courses on modern global history, as well as master’s courses on colonial and imperial history.

She welcomes research proposals from undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral students seeking to write dissertations on:

• The modern history of South Asia and the British empire
• Transimperial and connected histories
• The history of gender, masculinity, and race
• Colonial visual cultures

Previous positions

• Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Postdoctoral Fellow (State Research Agency). UPF, 2020–2023
• Juan de la Cierva-Formación Postdoctoral Fellow (State Research Agency). UPF, 2017–2019
• ICAS:MP Postdoctoral Fellow (M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies). Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, 2016

Academic qualifications

• PhD in History. University of Cambridge, 2016
• MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies. University of Cambridge, 2010
• Master in World History. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2008
• BA in Humanities. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007