Rose Sebastian is the Bajaj Postdoctoral Fellow for Fall 2025 at Harvard’s Mittal Institute and a fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology, and Society. Her longtime research interest in cultural studies, museum studies, and modern India has recently branched off to her current postdoctoral project on the science museums in post-independence India. She is a two-time Charles Wallace Fellow (2024, 2017) to the U.K for conducting a case study of the Science Museum London and archival research in the British Library. Her papers on the museums in India have been selected for publication in leading journals and presentations at several forums, including Harvard Kennedy School’s ‘Science and Democracy Network’ annual meet (2025), Yale University’s annual Modern South Asia Workshop (2022), and annual conference at University of Paris18 (2016). Ms. Sebastian holds a PhD in Cultural Studies (2020) from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India for the dissertation titled ‘The State Museum in India: Nation, History and the Politics of Display’. Her doctoral project was selected for the CSDS-ICSSR Fellowship (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies- Indian Council for Social Science Research, 2016-2018).
