Nachiket Chanchani is an associate professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is the author of two books: Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains: Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas (2019) and Amaruśataka and the Lives of Indian Love Poems (2022). His other writings have appeared in such refereed journals as Archives of Asian Art, Ars Orientalis, Artibus Asiae, Arts Asiatiques, History of Photography, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, and South Asian Studies. Nachiket also periodically writes on cultural policy for the editorial and opinion pages of The Hindu and the Indian Express newspapers. He has been involved with curatorial projects at many museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya in Mumbai, and the Assam State Museum in Guwahati. His research has been supported by the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam), Kunsthistorisches-Institut Max Planck Institute (Florence), Smithsonian Institution (Washington DC), Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin), and other organizations. He is currently serving on several advisory boards and committees.