Satyasikha (Shikha) Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History at TCNJ (The College of New Jersey). Her areas of specialization are South Asian history, British Empire, gender & sexuality, colonialism, history of medicine, and visual culture. Shikha grew up in Kolkata (India) and later moved to New Jersey, where she earned her PhD at Rutgers University in 2019. Her research focuses on the history of domestic labor in South Asia, particularly the history of Indian ayahs who provided care for British imperial families. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and her work has appeared in journals such as Visual Culture & Gender, Journal of Women's History, and Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History. Shikha collects historical ephemera on racialized and gendered care-givers, and recently curated a history exhibition with her students at the TCNJ Art Gallery, titled "Global Visual Culture of Domestic Labor: Trade Cards and Postcards from the Age of New Imperialism, Jim Crow Racism, and Asian Exclusion".
