In December, Margaret Masselli participated in the Yale Center for British Art Symposium “A Legacy of Landscape Study.” Masselli spoke on Panel Four: "Animal and Mineral"," and her talk was titled, “The Crystallization of Patna Painting: Mica, Mining, and Art at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.”

On February 13th, Masselli spoke at the first Digital Humanities (DH) Salon of the 2025 year. The DH salon series, hosted by the Center for Digital Scholarship, is a regular, informal preservation series bringing together digital humanities work across the Brown campus. Margaret shared her research project that seeks to bring together a group of eighteenth-century portraits of political elites in a digital space, in order to ask questions about politics and artistic processes during the rise of the East India Company in Northern India.

Masselli also wrote several entries for publication in the catalogue of Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850, an upcoming show co-curated by HIAA Assistant Professor Holly Shaffer at the Yale Center for British Art.