MIRA RAI WAITS is an Associate Professor of Art History at Appalachian State University. Her scholarship has addressed the development of fingerprinting and the spatial and visual cultures of British colonial carceral and policing systems in India. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Scholar Program, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.