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Audrey Truschke is a historian of early modern South Asia and scholar of Indian religious traditions, especially Hinduism, Islam, and Jainism. She reads both Sanskrit and Persian and is proficient in Hindi and Urdu. Her research focuses on the Mughal Empire in early modern India and cross-cultural interactions between members of the Sanskrit and Persian cultural worlds. Audrey teaches about a wide range of Indian religions, cultures, literatures, and histories. Audrey received her PhD from Columbia University in May 2012. During the 2012-2013 academic year, she was a research fellow in History and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College). She is currently a Mellon postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in Religious Studies at Stanford. |