Curriculum Vitae
Education
2010
Ph.D. New School for Social Research, New York
Professional Appointments
2015-
Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, U.S.A.
2020 September-December
Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
2018 January-July
Visiting Research Scholar, University of Naples, Federico II, Naples, Italy
2017 December
Visiting Research Scholar, Urban Studies Institute University of Antwerp, Belgium
2015 March-April
Research Scholar, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
2014-15
Research Fellow, Center for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2011-13
Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
2020-23
Economic and Social Research Council research grant awarded to “Navigating the grid in the ‘world-class city’: poverty, gender, and access to services in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka” (NOTE: I am a co-PI, heading the Mumbai research)
2019-20
American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship
2017-18
Fulbright – Fondazione CON IL SUD in Urban Studies
2015
Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville, faculty research fellowship
2014
Recipient of the American Institute of Indian Studies’ Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, 2014 for book manuscript, Pipe Politics, ContestedWaters: Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
2014-15
CeMIS-CeMEAS Transregional Research Network (CETREN), Göttingen (Germany), postdoctoral research fellowship
2011-14
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen (Germany), postdoctoral research fellowship
2008-10
American Institute of Indian Studies, Junior Research Fellowship
2007-08
New School for Social Research, Dissertation Fellowship
2007-08
American Institute of Indian Studies, Language Fellowship
2006
New School India China Institute, Summer Research Fellowship
Workshops Organised - a selection
2018
“Bombay Brokers: explorations at the ethnographic edge.” Bombay Brokers, authors’ workshop Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies,
6-7 January
2017
“Thinking with India: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives on Politics, Democracy, and Representation.” Preconference Workshop, (co-organized with Lisa Mitchell) 46th Annual Conference on South Asia preconference workshop at University of Wisconsin
October
2016
“Mediating Transregional Flow, Scale and Belonging: rethinking brokerage.” Workshop organized at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, (co-organized with Nellie Chu)
24-25 December
2015
Indian Urban Studies Workshop: “Building Indian Cities” organised at University of Pennsylvania’s Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), (co-organized with Debjani Bhattacharyya)
19 November
Languages
English (native fluency)
Hindi (highly proficient)
Urdu (highly proficient)
Marathi (basic)
Italian (proficient)
German (intermediate)
Swedish (intermediate)
French (formerly proficient)