Garima Kaushik

Biography

Garima Kaushik is an archaeologist who has been involved in active field research for over fifteen years. She served as an Assistant Archaeologist in the Archaeological Survey of India, Department under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India for over 12 years. The field experience she has gained comes from the number of field projects she has been a part of. She has participated in various excavations at important historic and proto historic sites, noteworthy among these being the Buddhist sites of Sravasti in Uttar Pradesh, Govishana in Kashipur, Uttarakhand and Buddhist site Adi Badri in Dist. Yamunanagar, Haryana and the Proto Historic site of Dholavira in Kutch, Gujrat. She has been involved with implementation of archaeological legislations, documentation and cataloguing of antiquities, writing excavation reports and conservation reports, organising and participating in seminars/conferences and organising cultural awareness programmes for preservation of Cultural Heritage. She has presented her research at various platforms and published books and articles on Buddhism, gender and archaeology in various International and National publications

Research Interest

Archaeology of Religion and Gender, Buddhist Archaeology, Archaeological research on Women in Buddhism and Jainism, Historical Archaeology, Ethno archaeology