Cohort Year:
2012
Advisor(s):
Muzaffar Alam
Research Interests:
Mughal History, Islamicate World, Slavery, Gender, and History of Emotions.
Education:
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2012. B.A., Swarthmore College, 2006.
Biography
Emma is a student of Mughal history whose work focuses on the many roles of eunuch slaves both in the Mughal household as well as more generally within the Mughal elite. Her work engages with larger debates on the nature of elite slavery, understandings of gender and masculinity, and the political centrality of intimacy and space in the early modern Islamicate world.
Research Interests
Mughal History, Islamicate World, Slavery, Gender, and History of Emotions.
Teaching Experience
- Colonizations II: Asia (Sole Instructor, Winter 2018)
- The Harem: Gender, Family and Power in Early Modern and Modern South Asia (Sole Instructor, Winter 2018)
- Colonizations II: Asia (Teaching Intern, Spring 2016)
- Media Aesthetics (Writing Intern, Fall 2014 and Winter 2015)
Education
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2012.
B.A., Swarthmore College, 2006.