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Dr. Salma Siddique serves as a Scientific Associate at Humboldt University of Berlin's Institute of Asian and African Studies (IAAW), specifically within the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region. Born in Nigeria to Indian parents, she is a historian and ethnographer specializing in South Asian cinema, partition studies, and immigrant media. Previously, she completed a European Research Commission-funded postdoctoral project at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich focusing on the Indian Muslim diaspora online.
Dr. Siddique earned her doctorate from the University of Westminster, London, with a dissertation examining partition's impact on film traffic and genres in Bombay and Lahore. Her forthcoming book Evacuee Cinema: A partition history of cinema in South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2022) expands this research using new archival and ethnographic materials from India, Pakistan, and the UK.
Her research explores the intersections of cinema, partition, and diaspora through historical and ethnographic lenses. Current work investigates 21st-century film spectatorship in urban South Asia under the German Research Foundation-funded project 'Nitrate Cities,' while earlier projects examined digital media practices among Muslim immigrants in Brexit Britain. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses on documentary, postcolonial cinema, exilic film cultures, and new media.
Dr. Siddique's 12 major publications (2009-2022) reveal an evolving trajectory from textual film analysis to ethnographic studies of digital diaspora. Early work focused on Partition-era cinema and star studies, while recent publications emphasize contemporary film reception, digital archiving, and online identity formation. Her scholarship consistently bridges historical cinema studies with current media practices across South Asia and its diasporas.
She has secured significant research funding including a German Research Foundation grant for 'Nitrate Cities' and a European Research Commission postdoctoral fellowship at LMU Munich. While she has taught extensively at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, specific student advising relationships are not documented in available sources. Her work appears in leading journals including Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Third Text, and BioScope.
