Elizabeth Lhost (Ph.D.) is Program Manager for the Modern Endangered Archives Program at the UCLA Library, University of California Los Angeles. Her work focuses on the history of law and religion in modern South Asia. She earned a Ph.D. in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Darmouth College, where she created and ran the « Conversations on South Asia » series from 2020-2023.
Her recent publications include Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), and a six-part series of essays for the Islamic Law Blog on sources for studying Islamic law in South Asia.