Sneha Krishnan (she/her) joined the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford as an Associate Professor in 2018. She is a Tutorial Fellow at Brasenose College.

Sneha writes and teaches on gender, domesticity, and the politics of intimacy in the British Colonial World. She’s currently writing a book about homemaking outside caste conjugality in early 20th century India, and has written and published on girlhood, race, sexuality, urban geographies of risk and respectability.

Sneha has been the recipient of a British Academy Wolfson Fellowship and a John Fell Fund. She was a 2024 Research Visitor at the Five College Women’s Studies Research Centre in Massachusetts.

Sneha is an Editor of Gender, Place, and Culture, Editorial Board Member of Social History and Asia Network co-chair for the European Social Science History Conference. Previously she has been Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member of the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Sneha lectures on the Human Geography, and Human Geography Methods modules for the Preliminary Examination, and on the Space Place and Society and Geographical Thought modules for the Final Honours School. She also teaches an option course for third years on Geographies of Home.

At Brasenose, Sneha offers tutorials across the curriculum. She welcomes enquiries from undergraduates interested in writing dissertations in human geographical topics, and using qualitative methods.

see: https://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/skrishnan.html