2023 - 2025 | Dr Anuradha Gobin

Dr Anuradha Gobin is Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary, Canada. Her research specialization is early modern visual culture of Northern Europe and its colonies in the Atlantic world. 

Gobin has published on the material culture associated with criminal punishments in the Dutch Republic. She is the author of Picturing Punishment: The Spectacle and Material Afterlife of the Criminal Body in the Dutch Republic which examined representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, out, and through publicly accessible spaces during punishment rituals.

Her current research seeks to provide new narratives about the Dutch Atlantic by incorporating unexplored types of sensorial evidence such as sound, tactility, and movement, gleaned from primary sources and material culture. This project entitled, Resistance Dance: The Sensorial and Material Legacy of the Dutch Atlantic is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and aims to provide a more nuanced understanding of the lived experiences of the transplanted peoples who toiled on the lucrative plantations established in the Dutch Atlantic.

Dr Anuradha Gobin is a co-convenor of the TORCH International Project: Sensory Subjectivities: Identities and Alterity in the Early Modern World

Sensory Subjectivities: Identities and Alterity in the Early Modern World