Sonal Khullar, the W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the department of the history of art, was selected as a Hilles Bush Fellow for the 2024–2025 academic year by the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

 A yearlong Radcliffe fellowship provides the opportunity to intensely pursue ambitious projects in the unique environment of the Institute. Dr. Khullar will work on a book on art and war in Sri Lanka across the long 20th century that proposes new ways of understanding the aesthetics and politics of remembrance, recovery, and reconstruction in postcolonial societies. 

This year’s Radcliffe fellows will be part of a unique interdisciplinary and creative community that will step away from routines to tackle projects that they have long wished to move forward. Throughout the academic year, fellows convene regularly to share their work in progress with the community and public. Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate the past, present, and future. 

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. Each fellowship class is drawn from scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—along with writers, journalists, playwrights, and other distinguished professionals. For this year’s historic 25th anniversary class, Radcliffe accepted just 3.3 percent of applicants.