I am an Associate Professor of Teaching in The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, a returning Faculty Fellow, and long time contributor to the Jump Start program. I am a cultural historian of South Asia whose teaching and research explores the deeply reciprocal processes of appropriation, assimilation, and influence that took place at the intersections of European and Asian material culture, as well as the role of racism and colonial power in shaping these exchanges. I write about the history and evolution of Indian fashion and serve as a research consultant for international exhibitions on Indian art, Orientalism, and European portraiture.