Amrita Mukherjee is a PhD student in Asian and Middle Eastern History, with a minor in Science, Technology, Environment, and Health (STEH). She earned her B.A. in History from Presidency University, followed by an M.A. in Interdisciplinary History from the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg. She later completed a second M.A. in South Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg.
She has been a Sahapedia-UNESCO fellow, where she explored the heritage practices of Kolkata’s Chinese community as an urban minority. Amrita also worked as a Future Museum Professional Intern supported by the British Council at the Indian Music Experience Museum, curating an exhibition on Songbirds and their influence on Indian musical tradition.
Her doctoral research focuses on the intersections of colonial law and technology in early twentieth-century South Asia. More broadly, her interests include the material history of law, colonial science, and the evolution of forensics, as well as the criminalization of dissent and the visual history of resistance in South Asia.