Her interests lie in intersection of art and urban topography across paintings, maps, architecture and literature, intellectual thinking on the experience of urban spaces and material things in early modern and colonial South Asia, historiography of cross-cultural encounters, and decorative arts and arts education in colonial India. She earned her Ph.D. in art history and M.A. in museum anthropology from Columbia University. Her recent publications include “‘Designs to Suit Every Taste’: P. Orr and Sons and Swami silver,” in Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj and “Engraved Epics: Ornamented Metal Objects,” in Treasures of the Albert Hall.