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Zahid R. Chaudhary specializes in postcolonial studies, visual culture, and critical theory. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. His book, 'Afterimage Empire: Photography in Nineteenth-Century India', provides a historical and philosophical account of early photography in India, exploring aesthetic experiments within colonial photographic practice. His forthcoming book, 'Paranoid Publics: Psychopolitics of Truth', examines contemporary cultural politics, conspiracy cultures, and anti-democratic social movements. Chaudhary is also working on an essay analyzing the cultural effects of political polarization and a book titled 'Impunity: Notes on a Global Tendency', which discusses the juridical, economic, and aesthetic aspects of impunity from the Cold War to the present in postcolonial states and the United States. He is a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study for the 2023-24 academic year and has published extensively on visual culture, photography, and psychoanalysis. His courses include 'Difficult Art', 'Bollywood Cinema', and 'Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialism'.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.