Arizona State University
Assistant Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
I am an assistant professor in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Arizona State University. 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 ethnographic 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 gender and politics, race and politics, and democracy and citizenship studies 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 research is published in Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities and Journal of Punjab Studies. I also serve on the editorial board of Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
B.A. Government, Smith College, 2004
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
My research uses ethnographic 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 gender and politics, race and politics, and democracy and citizenship studies 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 research is published in Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities and Journal of Punjab Studies. I also serve on the editorial board of Politics, Groups, and Identities.
Ph.D. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2010
M.A. Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006
B.A. Government, Smith College, 2004
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
