Radha Kapuria

Dr. Radha Kapuria is an Associate Professor in South Asian History at the University of Durham's Department of History. Her research examines gender, migration, and cultural expression in South Asia, with special focus on music traditions and Partition's legacy. She holds a PhD from King's College London, an MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and BA/MA degrees from Delhi University.

Her interdisciplinary work spans borderlands studies, ethnomusicology, environmental history, and performance theory. She investigates how cultural practices like Punjabi folk music intersect with political upheavals, ecological contexts, and diasporic identities. Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on post-Partition cultural memory, gender dynamics in historical performance spaces, and community-based musical traditions.

Awards and fellowships include:

• Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2019-2022)
• Commonwealth Scholarship
• Isobel Thornley Fellowship
• Shortlisted for Royal Asiatic Society's Bayly Prize

She leads collaborative projects including co-editing 'Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region' (Routledge, forthcoming) and co-investigating 'The Travelling Female Performer' project. She welcomes PhD students in:

• South Asian social/cultural history
• Migration/borderland studies
• Performance histories
• Decolonisation and cultural expression
• Environmental history

Her public engagement includes partnerships with the British Library, BBC Radio, and international heritage festivals.