Dr. Mrinalini Rajagopalan is Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her PhD from the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Her research interests include: urbanization and urbanism in South Asia; the colonial legacies of architectural preservation in India; and contemporary architecture and urban design in India. At Pitt she offers courses on modern urban and architectural history and the history of preservation and brings a global perspective to these areas of study. Her recent publications include: an essay titled, “A Medieval Monument and its Modern Myths of Iconoclasm” forthcoming in, Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine, edited by Dale Kinney and Richard Brilliant (Ashgate, 2011); a theoretical piece titled, “Preservation and Modernity: Competing Perspectives, Contested Histories and the Question of Authenticity” which will appear in the Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory, edited by Greig Crysler, Stephen Cairns and Hilde Heynen (Sage Publishing, 2011); and an essay “From Loot to Trophy: The Vexed History of Architectural Heritage in Imperial India”, which appeared in the Newsletter of the International Institute of Asian Studies (No. 57, Spring 2011, Leiden University Press) earlier this year.