Archishman is an art historian and a Ph.D. candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he also taught before joining Ashoka University. His research is on the art and iconography of medieval scholastic Buddhist traditions of South Asia, while his interests extend to the historiography of South Asian arts between the early historic period and AD 1200, and its art institutions. He has received awards from the ICHR, ICSSR, Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Universität zu Köln, and Neil Kreitman Studentship at SOAS, University of London. His writings, which extend to broader timeframes and understanding of South Asia’s art from the perspectives of comparative religion, the historiography of visual culture, gender and aesthetics, iconography and transculturalism, have appeared in The Burlington Magazine, Religions of South Asia etc.
