I am a professor of history at the University of San Francisco. My area of expertise is Mughal India. I have published scholarly articles on memory, history, and kingship in South Asia, and I have also published memoir and fiction. In 2014, my short story, Thirst, a satire of graduate school, won the Pushcart Prize for fiction.
I’m currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in art. Some of my art is here and there’s more on my Instagram. I’m interested in visual storytelling, and in making history accessible through art. I’ve done some illustrations of a memoir penned by a Mughal princess, Gulbadan Begum (d. 1603), and I’ve used these to address gender, power, and the writing of history.