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Debashree Mukherjee is a Professor at Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), affiliated with the Film & Media Program (School of the Arts), Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, South Asia Institute, and Center for Science and Society. Her research bridges film/media studies, decolonial historiography, and environmental humanities. She authored Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (2020), exploring cinema as an ecological practice in late colonial Bombay, and is completing Tropical Machines: Extractive Media and Plantation Modernity, analyzing media histories of indentured labor. She co-edits BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, curates public exhibitions, and runs an early Indian cinema Instagram account.
Education: Ph.D. Cinema Studies (NYU, 2015), M.Phil Cinema Studies (Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2009), M.A. Mass Communication (Jamia Millia Islamia, 2004).
Research focuses on South Asian cinema's material ecologies, colonial media practices, and decolonial feminist methodologies. Recent work examines plantation capitalism through photography, film, and communications infrastructure across Indian Ocean regions. Awards include the Modernist Studies Association First Book Prize Honorable Mention (2021) and SCMS Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award (2021).
Teaching includes courses on Indian cinemas, media materialisms, cinematic cities, and media colonialism. Collaborative projects include the Routledge Handbook of Asian Cinemas (2024) and CSSD's 'Extractive Media' working group (2023–2025). She actively contributes to public-facing initiatives like indiancine.ma and exhibition curation.
