Ateya Khorakiwala is a historian of the modernity of architecture and infrastructure in its colonial and postcolonial guises in India and South Asia. Her forthcoming book, Famine Architecture: Forms of Hunger in Colonial and Postcolonial India, is a history of developmental modernism told through the long legacy of colonial famine. Khorakiwala has received grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Foundation, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the American Institute of India Studies. Her essays and articles have appeared in e-flux Architecture, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME), Grey Room, and the
Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). She coedited Architecture in Development: Systems and the Emergence of the Global South (Routledge, 2022). Khorakiwala received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, her MS in Architecture Studies from MIT, and was trained as an architect at KRVIA in Mumbai, India.
Dr. Ateya Khorakiwala
