Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford University, specialising in modern British and British Empire history. She is the award-winning author of three books: 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 (2018); and Time’s Monster: How History Makes History (2020). Satia’s work has also appeared in scholarly journals, such as The American Historical Review, Past and Present, Technology and Culture, Humanity, Annales, and History Workshop Journal. She often writes for mainstream media such as the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and Time Magazine, among others. Satia is currently working on a history of colonialism in Punjab. https://history.stanford.edu/people/priya-satia