Aditi Kumar

Aditi Kumar is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, affiliated with the Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development (WICID). As an art historian and cultural practitioner, her work centers on visual histories and identity politics of marginalized communities within Global South contexts.

She completed her PhD in 2020 with research focusing on visual cultures of marginalized groups and postcolonial identity formations in nation-states. Her educational background establishes her expertise in critical visual analysis and decolonial frameworks.

Her research interests include:

• Art Historical Methodologies
• Visual Representation of Marginalized Communities
• Postcolonial Identity Formations
• Diaspora Studies (Jammu & Kashmir communities in the UK)
• Global South Visual Cultures
• Partition Legacies and Ongoing Colonialism

Currently reconceptualizing Partition as an unfinished aspect of colonization, her work examines how these historical processes underpin contemporary international conflicts. She actively expands diaspora community research through ethnographic engagement with Jammu & Kashmir communities settled in the UK, exploring cultural continuity and transformation in transnational contexts.