We measured giant dipole resonance (GDR) γ-rays in the 28 Si + 116 Cd reaction at ∼105 and 120 MeV excitation energies. The resonance widths were extracted as a function of temperature at different angular momentum values to decouple the effect of these two variables on resonance widths. The high energy GDR γ-rays from the decay of compound nucleus (CN) 144 Sm were measured using a large NaI(Tl) detector in coincidence with a sum-spin multiplicity filter. The experimental data were analyzed under the framework of statistical decay of CN. The GDR cross sections were also calculated with a thermal shape fluctuation model (TSFM), which incorporates the temperature and spin dependent shell corrections within the Nilsson-Strutinsky approach. The GDR widths were extracted in the temperature range 1.5-2.2 MeV. The measured widths indicate that the increase of GDR widths with temperature at different average spin values follows a similar trend and is borne out by theoretical calculations. Present calculation shows that TSFM satisfactorily reproduces the GDR cross section as well as widths in the temperature range 1-2.2 MeV over a wide range of angular momentum.