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Mannat Johal is a postdoctoral scholar in Department Artifacts, Action, Knowledge at the MPIWG. Her current book project, “Tempered by Time: Ceramics and the Fabric of Time in Medieval South India,” investigates how routine practices of crafting and using ceramic containers shaped temporalities of everyday life at Maski (Karnataka, India). As part of the “Metals, Minerals, and the Life Cycle” Working Group, her archeological research follows the trajectories of two materials—clay and gold—to understand how value was generated from the extraction, transformation, and circulation of products begot from the earth during the medieval period in South India’s Deccan region.
Mannat earned her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Chicago (2022) and was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences at the same institution (2022–2024).
