Dr. Mira Waits awarded grant from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art awarded Dr. Mira Rai Waits an Author Grant (Large) to support image reproduction and licensing costs for her upcoming publication, Colonial Carcerality: A Spatial History of the British Colonial Prison in India. The book is scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press in 2026.
The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art offers a variety of Fellowships (for individuals) and Grants (for institutions and individuals) twice a year in a strictly timetabled schedule. This extremely competitive programme supports scholarship, academic research and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of British art and architectural history from the medieval period to the present.
Dr. Mira Rai Waits is an art and architectural historian of modern and contemporary South Asia. Her research has addressed the development of fingerprinting in colonial India, the architectural history of British colonial prisons, and the role that remunerative labor played in the production of colonial Indian penology. Her research has been funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and University of California.
