Sonali Dhanpal
banner
sonalidhanpal.bsky.social
Sonali Dhanpal
@sonalidhanpal.bsky.social
Historian of modern architecture and urbanism and a fellow at the Buell and SOF Heyman at Columbia
Annoyingly, I only have access to the LinkedIn post that Amit tagged me in.

Which has these specifics below, I will ask for a link describing the project now :)
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This is such a huge compliment to get from of the best urban historians of Britain

My article is the first from my second project on race, empire and post war housing in Britain! It’s in a Special Issue on State Effects in Grey Room edited by Zeynep Celik Alexander with Lucia Allais.
October 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Amazing, really has a pulse on what people *really* need.
March 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I am a full human again after being reunited with Leia 🥰
December 20, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Finally got to watch this amazing movie by Payal Kapadia that has taken the world by storm.

Each shot, beautiful, the lighting impeccable and the joy in it so close, you feel like you’re in it.
December 11, 2024 at 3:52 AM
🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
December 10, 2024 at 4:26 AM
My new MTA user personality
December 1, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Been feeling a lil sorry for myself for pushing myself so hard this semester that I am so 🫠
November 28, 2024 at 5:14 PM
For context ——-Dirks’ book on Pudukottai lol
November 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM
The comments that are revealing are also so grim 🫠
November 21, 2024 at 2:50 AM
Also lil treat for you Bluesky folks from his archives that I went to in the summer—-

(A script for an open university lecture for the bbc - can literally hear his voice say, “I’m Stuart Hall and I teach at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham”)
November 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM
The clarity 🥰
November 16, 2024 at 7:43 PM
getting this book on left figures, themes, films and writers put together by Jairus Banaji was a nice start to this week :)
October 17, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Bought a copy of this for myself now that I’ve officially moved to Amrika
September 23, 2023 at 11:12 PM