{"id":476,"date":"2023-10-19T23:39:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/?page_id=476"},"modified":"2025-11-27T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:45:09","slug":"melina-gravier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/melina-gravier\/","title":{"rendered":"Melina Gravier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melina Gravier is a PhD candidate in the history of modern South Asia at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She was awarded a 4-year Doc.CH Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for her doctoral research. Her research interests sit at the intersection of legal history, religious studies and political economy. Working primarily with Hindi and Urdu materials, she studies writings on gold and jewelry published in late colonial India to examine how women defended their economic rights in their everyday experiences. Her research engages with a vast archive of magazines to uncover women\u2019s engagement with the law in informal venues. Besides her dissertation, she is preparing the special issue \u201cWorldly Magazines: Form, Circulation, and Cultural Change\u201d for the journal <em>Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East <\/em>(Duke University Press), co-edited with Zain R. Mian and Sumaira Nawaz. She is also leading the project \u201cWomen and the Court\u201d with Nadia Cattoni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melina Gravier is a PhD candidate in the history of modern South Asia at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She was awarded a 4-year Doc.CH Grant from the Swiss National &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002703,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-476","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/476\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/womenandthecourt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}