CONTACT INFORMATION

On Leave 2013-14

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
• M.A., South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997
• B.A., Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
  

REGIONAL FOCUS

• Asia, particularly South Asia
  

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

• Islam; Early Modern Empires; Colonialism; Nationalism; Postcolonial Theory; Women’s Studies; Historiography; Preservation Practices; Tourism; Popular Culture
  

COURSES

• Survey of Asian Art (AH 104)
• Image and Narrative in Asian Art (AH 351)
• Islamic Art (AH 209)
  

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• Memory, Monuments, and the Mughal Empire in South Asia. Book manuscript in preparation.
  

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

• “Locations of Longing: The Ruins of Old Lahore,” in Third Text (journal, forthcoming 2011).
  
• “Competing and Complementary Visions of the Court of the Great Mogor,” in Seeing Across Cultures, Dana Leibsohn and Jeanette Peterson, eds. (Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2011).
  

CURATORIAL WORK

• Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2007-2008
• Curator of Special Thematic Installation, Department of South and Southeast Asian Art, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, 2001-2002

SELECT FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010-2011
• Andrew Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Smith College, 2008-2010
• Dissertation Year Fellowship, Graduate Division, UCLA, 2005-2006
• Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Yvonne Lenart Graduate Travel Grant, Graduate Division, UCLA, 2002 – 2003