Sylvia Houghteling is an Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College where she teaches courses on early modern visual and material culture, the history of textiles, South Asian art and architecture, and the material legacies and ruptures of European colonialism. After receiving her Ph.D. in the History of Art from Yale University in 2015, she held the Sylvan C. Coleman and Pam Coleman Memorial Fund Fellowship in the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Houghteling’s research has been supported by the Fulbright-Nehru program, the Beinecke Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Huntington Library, the Gulbenkian Museum, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Her first book, The Art of Cloth in Mughal India, was published by Princeton University Press in 2022 and received the College Art Association’s 2023 Charles Rufus Morey Award.