Rila Mukherjee is Professor of History at University of Hyderabad, India. She did her doctoral dissertation at the EHESS, Paris. She specializes in the history of the extended Indian Ocean world, more particularly the networked economic and cultural histories of the Bay of Bengal realm. Historical cartography, network theory, and spatial concepts are focal to her interests. Chief Editor of the Brill journal Asian Review of World Histories, she has held Visiting Professorships at Paris, Aixen Provence, Shanghai, and Uppsala, and has been Visiting Scholar to Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, and Madrid. She has partnered international interdisciplinary projects funded by European Science Foundation; Agence Nationale de Recherche, France; Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK; the Australian Research Council. She has authored six monographs, singly and jointly edited nine volumes, contributed 46 chapters to national and international publications, guest edited themed issues in two internationaljournals, and published 28 articles in national and international journals on oceanic histories.