National College of Arts Lahore

head of the department, Communication and Cultural Studies

Associate Professor

About

Nadeem Omar Tarar is the head of department and director graduate program, Communication and Cultural Studies, at the National College of Arts. He holds a PhD in Art History and Theory, from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; an MA in Critical Theory from the University of Nottingham, UK, and an MSc. in Anthropology from the Quaid Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He did his post-doctoral fellowship at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT, USA. He has been affiliated with departments of History and South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK as a Post-doctoral Researcher.
His areas of research include the colonial and post-colonial art/education, sociology of knowledge, and the history of book in South Asia.
He has co-edited and introduced the book "Official" Chronicle of the Mayo School of Arts, the Formative Years under John Lockwood Kipling, 1875-1883 (Lahore, 2002). He is an author of book chapter, Anthropology in Pakistan: the State of Discipline in State of Social Sciences in Pakistan, (Islamabad, 2005). He has also published in Economic and Political Weekly, International Journal of Art and Design Education, Journal of British South Asian Studies and Third Text.
His work in progress includes two monographs. One on the history of colonial art education titled From Primitive Artisans to Modern Artists: Colonialism, Culture and Art Education in Pakistan and  the other on the anthropological history of colonial Punjab titled Ruled by the Pen: Colonial Knowledge and Folklore in Punjab.