Arizona State University
Assistant Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
2010 Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
2006 M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles 2004 B.A. Government, Smith College
I am an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU). I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles, where my training focused on Race, Ethnicity, Politics and Comparative Politics. I was also awarded a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Doctoral Fellowship at College of Wooster, and a Riley Postdoctoral Fellowship at Colorado College.
My research uses interpretive methods to study the relationship between democracy, citizenship, and difference. A central question in my research is whether citizenship is experienced unequally depending on intersecting forms of difference—age, class, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. My scholarship contributes to the subfields of gender and politics, race and politics, and democracy and citizenship by deconstructing the gendered and raced nature of institutions; explaining the exclusion of certain gendered, raced, and sexualized bodies from these institutions; and asking how to transform these institutions to be more inclusive and democratic.
My book manuscript, Gendered Citizenship: An Intersectional Understanding of Gendered Violence in Democratic India, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. My research is also published in Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities and Journal of Punjab Studies. I serve on the editorial board of Politics, Groups, and Identities. Also, I was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award at ASU where I teach Global Feminisms, Feminist Action Research, Navigating Academia, Comparative Politics, Politics of India, and Everyday Forms of Political Resistance.
Research Interests:
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
Gender and Politics
Democracy and Citizenship
Indian Politics
Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora
Gendered Violence and Violence Against Women
Feminist and Interpretive Methodology
Social Justice and Human Rights
2006 M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles 2004 B.A. Government, Smith College
I am an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU). I completed my Ph.D. in Political Science at University of California, Los Angeles, where my training focused on Race, Ethnicity, Politics and Comparative Politics. I was also awarded a Consortium for Faculty Diversity Doctoral Fellowship at College of Wooster, and a Riley Postdoctoral Fellowship at Colorado College.
My research uses interpretive methods to study the relationship between democracy, citizenship, and difference. A central question in my research is whether citizenship is experienced unequally depending on intersecting forms of difference—age, class, race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. My scholarship contributes to the subfields of gender and politics, race and politics, and democracy and citizenship by deconstructing the gendered and raced nature of institutions; explaining the exclusion of certain gendered, raced, and sexualized bodies from these institutions; and asking how to transform these institutions to be more inclusive and democratic.
My book manuscript, Gendered Citizenship: An Intersectional Understanding of Gendered Violence in Democratic India, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. My research is also published in Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities and Journal of Punjab Studies. I serve on the editorial board of Politics, Groups, and Identities. Also, I was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award at ASU where I teach Global Feminisms, Feminist Action Research, Navigating Academia, Comparative Politics, Politics of India, and Everyday Forms of Political Resistance.
Research Interests:
Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
Gender and Politics
Democracy and Citizenship
Indian Politics
Sikhs and Sikh Diaspora
Gendered Violence and Violence Against Women
Feminist and Interpretive Methodology
Social Justice and Human Rights
