Akshaj Awasthi

Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre DPhil Scholar

Supervisor: Zeynep Yürekli-Gökay

College affiliation: New College

Email: akshaj.awasthi@ames.ox.ac.uk, akshaj.awasthi@new.ox.ac.uk

Education:

DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Islamic Art and Architecture), University of Oxford – 2025-present

MPhil in Islamic Art & Architecture, University of Oxford (St Cross College) – 2023-2025

DipASR (Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research), Ashoka University – 2022 

B.A. (Hons) in History, Ashoka University – 2021

Research interests:

Sufi shrines, Early modern Islamic art and architecture (15th to 18th centuries CE), material culture studies, Ottoman and Central Asian studies, connected histories

Scholarships and Grants:

Oxford-Nizami Ganjavi Graduate Scholarship

Ertegun Graduate Scholarship in the Humanities

Barakat Trust Postgraduate Student and Early Career Award