--- title: Priya Satia | TIME description: Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and the author of Time's Monster: How History Makes History canonical: https://time.com/author/priya-satia/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/priya-satia/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Priya Satia ## Priya Satia Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and the author of [Time's Monster: How History Makes History](https://history.stanford.edu/publications/times-monster-how-history-makes-history) ## Priya Satia *  Sep 12, 2022 ### [The British Monarchy Helped Mortgage Our Collective Future](https://time.com/6212672/queen-elizabeth-death-empire-climate-change/) Queen Elizabeth II's death should bring about a reckoning in understanding how the British Empire he... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Apr 27, 2021 ### [History's Warning for the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan](https://time.com/5959073/afghanistan-withdrawal-empire-history/) History suggests that a more discreet American presence in Afghanistan will be a provocation rather ... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Oct 20, 2020 ### [The Problem With Waiting for History to Judge the Present](https://time.com/5901461/historical-judgment/) The idea that history will judge can be used rhetorically by any side in a contest [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Aug 19, 2020 ### [We Can't Tell Kamala Harris' Story Without the British Empire. We Can't Tell America's Without It Either](https://time.com/5881343/kamala-harris-global-history/) Kamala Harris can be seen not just as a quintessentially American politician but also part of a glob... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Nov 8, 2018 ### [How the End of World War I Brought the Beginning of Drone Warfare](https://time.com/5448125/wwi-drone-warfare-iraq/) Postwar Cabinet assessments concluded that airpower had found greatest application in the Middle Eas... [HISTORY](/section/history/) *  Apr 10, 2018 ### [What the Firearms Industry's History Teaches Us About Mass Shootings](https://time.com/5231027/economic-history-gun-control/) The global history of gun manufacturing has serious implications for the situation today [HISTORY](/section/history/) Meta: {"meta\_title":"","meta\_description":"","og\_title":"","og\_description":"","og\_imageConnection":{"edges":\[\],"\_\_typename":"SysAssetConnection"},"twitter\_card":null,"\_\_typename":"Seo"} ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/priya-satia/","name":"Priya Satia"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/priya-satia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/priya-satia/"},"name":"Priya Satia","jobTitle":"","description":"Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History at Stanford University and the author of Time's Monster: How History Makes History","url":"https://time.com/author/priya-satia/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```