TEACHING | RESEARCH

GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2021 - 2022 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship

2019 - 2020 Fulbright Nehru Award Academic and Professional Excellence Award

2019 American Institute of Indian Studies Performing Arts Fellowship

2019 - 2020 Faculty Development and Research Committee Grants, Towson University

2017 MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute Fellowship, Skidmore College

2015 - 2016 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty

2016 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)

2015 The Wenner-Gren Foundation Fejos Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film

2013 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)

2010 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT)

2009 JB MRC Junior Research Fellowship, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi

2006 – 2011 Point Foundation National LGBTQ Scholarship

COURSES TAUGHT

TOWSON UNIVERSITY (2012 - Current)
ANTHROPOLOGY | SOCIOLOGY
Associate Professor

Visual & Multimodal Anthropologies
South Asian Cinema & Popular Culture
Alternative Modernities: Indian Mediascapes
Anthropology of Media
Anthropology of Gender
Cultural Anthropology

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY (2008 - 2011)
AMERICAN STUDIES | ANTHROPOLOGY
Adjunct Faculty

Movies, Magic & Masala
Cinema, Globalization & Culture
Sex, Gender & Culture