Projit Bihari Mukharji is Professor and Head of the Department of History at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India. Before joining Ashoka, he taught for two decades in universities in the UK, Canada and the USA. His research engages themes of subalternity in and through the history of science in South Asia. Most recently, Mukharji has been working on the histories of human genetics, model organisms, and Cold War parapsychology. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and winner of the Pfizer Prize. His latest monograph is Brown Skins, White Coats: Race Science in India, 1920-66 (Chicago, 2023).