Parshati Dutta, Ph.D.

Parshati Dutta is an architect and art historian with a PhD from the University of York (UK). Her research focuses on the Mughal period in South Asia, with particular interest in questions of gender, labour, and transculturation. Her doctoral thesis, Cupolas of Chastity, Pillars of Faith: A History of Mughal Architectural Matronage, was fully funded by the University of York, with additional grants for fieldwork awarded by the British Institute of Persian Studies. She has presented her research at conferences and seminars at institutions including Oxford, Durham, UCL, the American University in Cairo, Rice University, and Ibn Haldun University. Several of her articles and chapters on Mughal and Sultanate architectural histories have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and Religions of South Asia, as well as in edited volumes from Routledge and Edinburgh University Press, with more forthcoming in the International Journal of Islamic Architecture and Brill. She currently serves as Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture and is due to begin a Getty-funded postdoctoral fellowship in July.