Curriculum Vitae

Education

Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA)

September 2023

PhD., Socio Cultural Anthropology

• General Examination Fields: Crisis, Marginal Masculinities, Mimesis and Post-colonial Alterity
• Research Interests: Psychoanalytic Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Mobility, Migration, Asylum, Anthropology of change and transformation.

2018

M.A., Socio Cultural Anthropology  -  GPA 3.9 (4)
        
Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (Delhi, India)

2016

M.A.,  Sociology  -  First Division, Gold Medalist
        
St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University (Delhi, India)

2014

BSc., with Honors, Chemistry  -  First Division, 81.8%

Dissertation

“Paradoxes of Social Incorporation: Hospitality and Hostility in the Reception of Newcomers in Berlin, Germany”
 Advisors: John Borneman, Serguei Oushakine, Elizabeth Davis.

Honors and Fellowships (selected)

2022/23     Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
2022     Author Residency, Migration Politics, Amsterdam.
2020     Princeton Mellon Initiative Digital Research Grant.
2019/20     DAAD Research Grant for dissertation fieldwork - One-Year Grants.
2016/17     Merit Grant from the Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
2016     Smt.. Kunda Datar Gold Medal for M.A. Sociology
2015     Krishna Raj Summer Travel Fellowship from the Delhi School of Economics

Academic Positions

2023-          Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2022/23     Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
2019/20     DAAD Visiting Researcher, Humboldt Universität
2018/21     Graduate Affiliate, European Cultural Studies, Princeton University

Teaching Experience

Spring 2021     Assistant Instructor for “Psychological Anthropology”, Princeton University.
Fall 2017/18    Assistant Instructor for “The Anthropology of Debt”, Princeton University.