Dr Sneha Krishnan
Associate Professor in Human Geography, School of Geography and Environment; Tutorial Fellow in Geography, Brasenose College
About
Dr Sneha Krishnan is a historical and cultural geographer of girlhood, education and domesticity in the British colonial world. She writes about the history of colonial education in India, about British universities' links with the colonial world, the politics of archiving, and about histories of race, gender and sexuality. She also writes - mostly for public readers - on the politics of free speech and access in higher education. Dr Krishnan has published in academic journals like Antipode, Gender, Place and Culture, and Society and Space. She has also written for public readers in the Verso blog, Public Books, and Radical History Online.
Expertise
- Race
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Higher education
- Free speech
- Access
Selected publications
- Stories with horns and tails (2025)
- Defending Racist Speech Will Not Free Palestine (2024)
- Prayers, Not Protests: Christian Internationalism and Young Womanhood in South India (2024)
- Carceral domesticities and the geopolitics of Love Jihad (2023)
- Merit Must Fall (2020)
- Radical Object: A Colonial Schoolboy’s Report Card (2020)
- Killing Us Slowly: Pre-Empting Suicide at a Women’s Hostel in Chennai (2019)
- Archives of Dreaming
Media experience
Dr Sneha Krishnan has experience of interviews for media outlets including the Times of India.
Recent media work
Languages
English, Tamil