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Expertise
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Work
Work
Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art in Honor of Gülru Necipoğlu (Brill, 2026), co-edited with Ladan Akbarnia, Emine Fetvaci, and Jennifer Pruitt.
The Architectural Reference, special issue of Journal18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Arts and Culture (Spring 2021), co-edited with Ünver Rüstem.
From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire (Yale University Press, 2018).
- Winner, SAH/Mellon Author Award
- Finalist, Charles Rufus Morey Book Award (Distinguished Book in the History of Art, College Art Association)
- Finalist, Kenshur Prize (Outstanding Monograph in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Indiana University)
“The Mughals, the Marathas, and the Refracted Eighteenth-Century,” co-authored with Holly Shaffer, Journal 18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Arts and Culture (Fall 2021).
“The City Built, the City Rendered: Locating Urban Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Delhi,” in Affect, Emotion, and Subjectivity in Early Modern Muslim Empires, ed. Kishwar Rizvi (Brill, 2017).
“Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century,” in Histories of Ornament: Between Global and Local, eds. Gülru Necipoğlu and Alina Payne (Princeton, 2016).
“Transporting India: The Gentil Album and Mughal Manuscript Culture,” Art History 38 (2015).
“The ‘Palais Indiens’ of 1774: Representing Mughal Architecture in Eighteenth-Century India,” Ars Orientalis 39 (2011).
“Beyond the Taj Mahal: Late Mughal Visual Culture, 1658-1858,” co-authored with Yuthika Sharma, in The Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture (Blackwell Companions to Art History Series), eds. F. Barry Flood and Gülru Necipoğlu (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017).
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2021-22)
Mellon Author Award, Society of Architectural Historians (2017)
Getty Research Institute Fellowship (2013-14)
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University (2009-11)
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship (2006-7)
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (2004-5)
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies (2002-3)