Devleena Ghosh is professor of social and political sciences at the University of Technology Sydney. She publishes in colonial, global, and environmental history and has co-authored and co-edited several books, including Colonialism and Modernity (Allen and Unwin, 2007), Cultures of Trade: Indian Ocean Exchanges (Scholars Press, 2007) and Teacher for Justice: Lucy Woodcock's Transnational Life (ANU Press 2019).