Professor Priya Satia
Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford University, focusing on the history of modern Britain and its empire. She is the award-winning author of Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain’s Covert Empire in the Middle East (2008), Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (Penguin/Duckworth, 2018), and Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire (Belknap HUP/Penguin Allen Lane, 2020). Her academic writing has also appeared in many edited collections as well as scholarly journals like the American Historical Review, Technology & Culture, Past & Present, History Workshop Journal, Annales, and others. Prof. Satia also frequently writes for popular media such as the Financial Times, Slate, The Nation, Foreign Policy, the London Review of Books, Aeon, among others. She is working on a new book project, The Lake of Liberation, on British colonialism in Punjab and its legacies.