Nicole Ranganath is a Historian & Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at the University of California, Davis who specializes in the history of the South Asian diaspora. She is also a core faculty member of the Mellon-funded Reimagining the Indian Ocean Worlds Initiative. She is the historian and curator of the Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive, a new resource that houses over 700 diaries, letters, photographs, films, and oral histories documenting the history of Punjabi Americans in California over the last 120 years (http://pioneeringpunjabis.ucdavis.edu). The Archive is a collaboration between UC Davis and Yuba City’s Punjabi American Heritage Society. She teaches courses on the history of the South Asian diaspora, South Asian film, and India. She is currently working on a book linking the colonial past in the Punjabi diaspora to North India, Fiji, and East Africa through the lives of Punjabi immigrants who served in the British colonial administration and later settled in northern California in the post-World War II era. Her research is currently funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation and the California Humanities. She earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a BA in anthropology from UC Berkeley. She can be reached at [email protected].