Sneha Krishnan is an Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College). She is currently a British Academy - Wolfson Fellow, and an Editor of Gender, Place, and Culture.

Sneha researches and teaches on how geographies of caste and colonialism shape experiences of girlhood. Her initial research – on pleasure and danger in contemporary Chennai – has been published in Antipode, Social and Cultural Geography, Gender, Place, and Culture, and other academic journals.

Sneha’s new work asks how young Indian women reimagined domesticity in educational institutions in the early 20th century. In Unhomely Histories, Sneha’s research reorients the story of domestic modernity in late colonial India away from the concatenation of home-woman-nation, to ask instead how Christian women in Southern India reimagined home at women’s colleges.

In 2021, Sneha was awarded a British Academy - Wolfson Fellowship that currently supports her research. She will also be an associate of the Five College Women’s Studies Research Centre in Autumn 2024.