Swati Chattopadhyay

Swati Chattopadhyay is a Professor of Art History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, affiliated with the College of Letters and Science. Her research focuses on modern architecture, urbanism, and the cultural landscapes of colonialism and the British Empire, with a critical lens on postcolonial theory. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, an M.Arch. from the University of Arizona, and a B.Arch. from Jadavpur University.

Her accolades include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Paul Mellon Center Senior Fellowship, and the 2025 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to Critical Approaches to Contemporary Architecture and authored Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire and Representing Calcutta. She serves as Vice President of the Society of Architectural Historians and a Founding Editor of PLATFORM.

• Education:
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
• M.Arch., University of Arizona
• B.Arch., Jadavpur University

Her research bridges architecture, urbanism, and postcolonial studies, examining global historical contexts of civic spaces and imperial legacies. She has led grants like the NSF and collaborates on initiatives such as the Subaltern-Popular Workshop.