Durba Ghosh is professor of history at Cornell University and director of the Humanities Scholars Program. Her research is on gender, culture, law, archives, and colonial governance in British India.  She is the author of Sex and the Family in Colonial India: the making of empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2017), as well as a number of articles.