Fatima Quraishi is Assistant Professor at Princeton University. Her research examines the intersection of regional artistic styles with locally embedded practices and considers the role played by religion and religious communities in shaping artistic production. Her current book project Necropolis as Palimpsest: The Makli Cemetery in Sindh, 1380-1660 is a longue-duree analysis of a vast funerary site in the south of Pakistan. She completed her doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and has held teaching positions at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and at the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, both in Karachi, Pakistan. She was also the lead curator of the exhibition, “Paradise on Earth: Manuscripts, Miniatures, and Mendicants from Kashmir,” at the Mohatta Palace Museum in Karachi in 2017.

She is a member of the research project, Calligraphies at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World – Callfront, focusing on calligraphic practices in Sindh.