In 2002, he wrote a Master's Thesis under the guidance of Prof. Frank Matero on preservation policy for the city walls of Cairo.
[4] In 2010, he received his doctoral degree (Ph.D.) from the University of Pennsylvania for his dissertation on the architecture of the Nizam Shahi dynasty.
In January 2020, he was on a panel at the Kerala Literature Festival to discuss Tony Joseph's book Early Indians.
The American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) awarded Pushkar Sohoni a Junior Research Fellowship in 2007–08.
[47] He was a member of the project Art Space and Mobility in the Early Ages of Globalization,[48] organized by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz.
[51] Along with Lisa Mitchell and Raili Roy, he won a Penn Global Engagement Fund Award for the academic year 2013–14, for undergraduate research and cultural immersion experiences in India for students.
He is interested in numismatics, and has lent coins to exhibitions, including the show Sultans of Deccan India, 1500–1700: Opulence and Fantasy at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
[53][54][55][56] In 2016–17, he and C. Ryan Perkins won an award from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) to conduct workshops for the cataloging and preservation of the Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu library in Karachi.
[57] Pushkar Sohoni was a non-residential visiting scholar of the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania in the year 2016–17.
In the same year, along with Pika Ghosh, he co-edited the festschrift to Michael W. Meister, titled Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes: Seeing South Asian Art Anew.
[71] He has written extensively on the history of architecture, the Deccan sultanates, numismatics, socio-linguistics, and aspects of material culture.