Teresa Segura-Garcia

Teresa Segura-Garcia is a Tenure-track Professor of Modern South Asian History at the Department of Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona. Her research on nineteenth and twentieth-century India explores several often overlapping topics: the global links of the Indian princely states, gender and masculinity, the history of the body, and visual culture.

She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in Delhi, with an ICAS:MP fellowship awarded by the M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies. She has also held two postdoctoral fellowships at Universitat Pompeu Fabra: the Juan de la Cierva-Formación Fellowship and the Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación Fellowship, by the Government of Spain’s State Research Agency.

She has held visiting fellowships at Brown University’s Department of History (awarded by the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad) and at the American University of Beirut (with an Erasmus+ International Staff Mobility Grant).

Her teaching includes undergraduate courses on modern global history, as well as graduate courses on the history of Asian diasporas and the role of race and gender in colonial wars. She welcomes research proposals from undergraduate and graduate students seeking to write dissertations on the modern history of South Asia, the British empire, and other topics germane to her areas of expertise.

Academic qualifications:
PhD in History. University of Cambridge, 2016
MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies. University of Cambridge, 2010
Master in World History. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2008
BA in Humanities. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007

Featured publications:
Bodies beyond binaries in colonial and postcolonial Asia, edited by Kate Imy, Teresa Segura-Garcia, Elena Valdameri, and Erica Wald. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024. Open access: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93887

“Princely anticolonialism from India to ‘Free America’: Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda and the United States of America, c. 1900‒1935”. Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle 14 (2024): 33–51. Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69158

“A Barcelona stage designer in colonial India: Catalan travellers, transimperial mobility and the British Raj in Spain, c. 1908”. Historia y política 49 (2023): 185‒214. Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60058

“The Raj’s uncanny other: Indirect rule and the princely states”. In Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia, edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné and Maria Framke, 105–115. London: Routledge, 2021. Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68265

Unexpected voices in imperial parliaments, edited by Josep M. Fradera, José María Portillo, and Teresa Segura-Garcia. London: Bloomsbury, 2021. Open access (chapter): http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68277

“Picturing Indian kingship: The photographic practices of Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda”. In Visual histories of South Asia, edited by Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes and Marcus Banks, 115–31. New Delhi: Primus Books, 2018. Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70287