Faculty Details
Dr. Elora Tribedy
Dr. Elora Tribedy
Designation
Assistant Professor, Coordinator, SCO Chair on Shared Buddhist Heritage
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Visual Culture in Pre-Modern South Asia, Iconography of South and Southeast Asian Images, South Asian Art and Archaeology, Archaeology of Buddhism in Asia, Critical Studies on Heritage and Collection History
Year of Joining at NU
2021
Total Years of Teaching Experience:
Over 5 years (6 years in July, 2025)
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
Department of Archaeology, Deccan College, Pune, India
Awards/Honours
H.D. Sankalia Gold Medal- 2012 for standing First in order of Merit at the M.A. course in Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology for 2010-2012, conferred by Deccan College- Junior Research Fellowship and UGC NET – 2014
- Small Study And Research Grant- 2017: Conferred by Nehru Trust for the Indian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, U.K. for research project ‘Buddhist Goddesses in Western Deccan: A Reappraisal’
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- Tribedy, Elora. “Forged Through Multiple Entities: Revisiting Urban Landscapes of Early Odisha,” in Handbook on Urban History of Early India, Edited by Aloka Parasher Sen, Springer Nature, Switzerland, pp.321-341, eBook ISBN, 978-981-97-6230-9, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6230-9_17.
- Tribedy, Elora. “From Tribal to Sacred: The Changing Gaze on godhå (Indian Monitor Lizard) in Antiquity,” Berliner Indologische Studien, Germany, Vol. 26, pp. 7-38, ISBN 978-3-89693-771-1, 2023.
- Tribedy, Elora. “Sinless’s Piety: A Recently Recovered Inscribed Image of Vajra Tara-Mandala,” Journal of Bengal Art, International Centre for Study of Bengal Art, Bangladesh, Vol. 26, , pp.711-738, ISSN 1607-1344, 2022.
- Tribedy, Elora. “The Portrayal of Death and Life Expectancy in Narratives of Early Buddhism,” Journal of Asiatic Society, India, Vol. LVII, No. 3, 2015.
- Tribedy, Elora. “Investigating Activities and Spatial Use at Early Historic Site of Ahichchatra, Uttar Pradesh,” Purattatva: Journal of Indian Archaeological Society, India, Vol. 46, 2016.