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SEGURA GARCIA, TERESA

Teresa Segura-Garcia is a historian of Modern South Asia. She has a wide interest in the social and cultural history of India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on the princely states, gender, and visual culture.

She has a BA in Humanities and a Master’s in World History from UPF, as well as an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her PhD dissertation, also from the University of Cambridge, examines the global links of the Indian princely state of Baroda in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

After her PhD, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi (with a fellowship awarded by the M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies) and at UPF (through the Government of Spain’s Juan de la Cierva program). She has also held a visiting fellowship at Brown University’s Department of History, awarded by the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad.

At the Department of Humanities, she serves as co-convener of the seminar of the Research Group on Empires, Metropoles and Extra-European Societies (GRIMSE) and as the dissertation coordinator in the BA in Global Studies. Her teaching includes undergraduate courses on modern global history, as well as graduate courses on the history of Asian diasporas and the role of race and gender in colonial wars.

For more information, please visit https://tseguragarcia.com/