She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2004 and has previously taught at Cornell University. Her research interests include modern political thought, modern social theory, the intellectual history of empire, the theory and history of imperialism, South Asian politics and history, and theories of race and culture. Her book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism (Princeton, 2010), explored the transformation of nineteenth-century imperial ideology. Her current research focuses on political realism and the political theory of M. K. Gandhi. Add new comment