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Professor Houghteling specializes in early modern visual and material culture with a focus on the history of textiles, South Asian art and architecture, and the material legacies and ruptures of European colonialism. Her first book, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India (Princeton University Press, 2022) examined the textiles crafted and collected across the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, showing how woven objects helped to shape the social, political, religious, and aesthetic life of early modern South Asia. The book received a College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant and won the 2023 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association. Professor Houghteling’s ongoing research is concerned with questions of dyes and temporality and the unique material histories of the Indian Ocean trade.

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