Teresa Segura-Garcia

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 history of modern India explores intertwined themes — the princely states; the nexus between gender, race, and the body; and colonial visual culture — from a global, transimperial, and connected perspective.

At UPF, she is co-principal investigator of the GENCOLWAR project (Colonial war, gender and race in modern Spain, 1858–1918: Placing the Spanish case on the historiographical and digital global map), funded by the Spanish State Research Agency. She is also a member of the Research Group on Empires, Metropoles and Extra-European Societies (GRIMSE).

Previously, she was an ICAS:MP (M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi (2016), as well as a Juan de la Cierva-Formación (2017–2019) and Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación (2020–2023) Postdoctoral Fellow at UPF. She has been a visiting fellow at Brown University (2019) and the American University of Beirut (2022).

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

Academic qualifications

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