She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in New York and previously taught at the University of Chicago, where she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and a Harper Fellow. Her book, The Art of Secularism: The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India, was published by Hurst & Co. and Oxford University Press this summer. The book describes how four renowned artists—M. F. Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakhar—developed their practice in an era when secular nationalism grappled with the recent re-enchantment of signs. The Art of Secularism also describes the effects of the rise of Hindu nationalism on India’s art world, drawing upon Zitzewitz’s collaboration with legendary Mumbai gallerist Kekoo Gandhy, which resulted in a memoir, The Perfect Frame: Presenting Modern Indian Art, which was published in 2003.