Ruby Maloni is former Head and Professor of the Department of History, Mumbai University. She has been teaching and framing the syllabi at the graduate level for the History of the United States at Mumbai University for more than thirty years. She has mentored many students conducting research on American Studies. She has participated in two earlier sessions of the Salzburg Seminar and found herself to be academically enriched from the experience. She is Director, Historian's Atelier, which does mostly pro bono work for scholars and social scientists. She is an alumnus of both Calcutta and Mumbai University, having done her graduation from the former institution, and obtained the master's and doctoral degrees from the latter. Ruby is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.