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.
As a scholar, I explain why the promise of democratic equality remains unrealized, and I identify potential ways to create more egalitarian relations in liberal democracies and the discipline of political science. This intellectual endeavor has demanded that I cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge epistemological and methodological norms in political science to understand the gendered and raced nature of politics as a practice and political science as a discipline. I use interpretive and feminist methods to examine what are often assumed to be neutral concepts, objective methodologies, and universal institutions, and demonstrate that these very concepts, methodologies, and institutions are gendered and raced such that they determine who enjoys democratic inclusion, who commands academic authority, and who is most vulnerable to violence. My scholarship, teaching, and service seeks to make marginalized individuals central to the process of theorization, working to make societies and institutions, including the academy, more inclusive.
My book manuscript, Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. My research is also published in Feminist Formations, Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Narrative Politics, and Journal of Punjab Studies. In 2018, 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
Feminist and Interpretive Methodology
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.
As a scholar, I explain why the promise of democratic equality remains unrealized, and I identify potential ways to create more egalitarian relations in liberal democracies and the discipline of political science. This intellectual endeavor has demanded that I cross disciplinary boundaries and challenge epistemological and methodological norms in political science to understand the gendered and raced nature of politics as a practice and political science as a discipline. I use interpretive and feminist methods to examine what are often assumed to be neutral concepts, objective methodologies, and universal institutions, and demonstrate that these very concepts, methodologies, and institutions are gendered and raced such that they determine who enjoys democratic inclusion, who commands academic authority, and who is most vulnerable to violence. My scholarship, teaching, and service seeks to make marginalized individuals central to the process of theorization, working to make societies and institutions, including the academy, more inclusive.
My book manuscript, Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. My research is also published in Feminist Formations, Space & Polity, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Journal of Narrative Politics, and Journal of Punjab Studies. In 2018, 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
Feminist and Interpretive Methodology
