Manjari Mukherjee

Manjari completed her multi-sited archival research and is writing her dissertation titled "Yahudi Ki Ladki (Daughter of a Jew): Jews on the Indian Stage and Screen from the 1920s to the 1950s." She has presented her work at the South Asia Madison Conference, International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), and at the Association for Jewish Studies (2022) where part of the Scholars of Color Fellows (2024-25). She is co-convenor of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Performance Studies in/from the Global South Working Group. She was awarded the GIFT teaching fellowship (2021), Graduate Studies of Arts and Sciences Summer Fellow (2022), Tisch Library Fellowship (2023) and Graduate Student Research Competition (2023). She has published with the Jewish Women's Archive, Theatre Survey, Theatre Research International, and co-edited the 2024 summer volume of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre Gazette.

Manjari has designed and taught courses on the history of Bollywood Dance, Introduction to Acting Methods at Tufts; Introduction to Theatre History and Performance at Tufts and Boston University, Queer Nationhood Art and Performance at the Experimental College at Tufts. She performed in a staged reading of Punchnama (Tale of Five) by Fatima A. Maan at La MaMa, New York, centering queer, brown, and Muslim experiences. She is currently working as a dramaturg for Aeschylus's The Furies at Tufts. 

Manjari continues to facilitate conversation as co-founder of the Graduate Humanities Circle (GHC) to create a network of artists and scholars of the Humanities within and beyond Tufts. Manjari has also worked as an academic mentor at the StAAR center and the TDPS faculty-grad liaison (AY2022-2023). Before starting her PhD at Tufts, Manjari completed her Masters' degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, and worked as a curator for Mojarto, an online Arts Aggregator. She is finding ways of bringing together her classical dance training and her scholarship and is actively building an archive of Baghdadi Jewish performers and cultural actors.