Dr. Meher Mistry is the Head, Department of History at Ramniranjan Jhunjhunwala College (Autonomous), Mumbai and has been teaching History to under-graduate students since the past 17 years. She has a doctorate from the Asiatic Society, University of Mumbai on “A History of Some Parsi Settlements on the Western Coast of India (1600 to 1850) – A Study of Bharuch, Ankleshwar, Khambhat”. Her research interest includes Parsi community history, maritime history, and business history and contemporary Indian and World history. She has been the recipient of the Gulestan Billimoria Fellowship of the Asiatic Society and the Ratan Tata Travel Grant for visiting the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. She was associated with the WZCF-Sanjan – Bahrot: Archaeological and Conservation Project, the UNESCO PARZOR Project and the Research Project on The Genealogy of the Seth and Sethna Family: 1930 -2010 at the K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai. She has presented papers at several conferences and has more than 15 publications to her credit.