Dr. Ursula Weekes is an independent art historian, specialising in Mughal and Rajput painting. She is based in London, where she teaches in various university, schools and museum settings. She was educated at St John's College Cambridge and the Courtauld Institute of Art and held a Commonwealth Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in Delhi, where she also taught as Visiting Faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is currently writing a book on Mughal Court Painting in India for Reaktion Books Ltd.