Amita Sinha is a former professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (1989-2018) and has taught in the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur, and in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at IIT Gandhinagar in India. She is the author of Landscapes in India: Forms and Meanings (University Press of Colorado, 2006) and Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). She is also coeditor of Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management (Routledge, 2017).
