ACADEMIC RESEARCH
PHD CANDIDATE, SOCIOLOGY, UPRETORIA
March 2021-March 2024
My PhD research focuses on queer of color movement-building and solidarities. I am particularly interested in the participation of South Asians in the diaspora in activism, especially in collaboration or partnership with Black activists and Black-led liberation movements. This research draws from my own experience as an organizer. My research sites are South Africa, the US and the UK.
Featured in Kohl Journal Issue 7.1 and in Gender Forum Issue 79.
“THAT’S WHAT WE THINK OF AS ACTIVISM”: SOLIDARITY THROUGH CARE IN QUEER DESI DIASPORA
July 2023
Journal of South Asian Studies, January 2023
Photo credit Critical Aunty Studies, Saronik Bosu
LECTURER, FEMINIST POLITICS, WITS UNIVERSITY
February - July 2023
I was the primary lecturer for an in-person weekly evening class on Feminist Theory and Politics, with 35 students. The syllabus designed by me can be found here.
LECTURER, DECOLONIAL DEVELOPMENT THEORY AND PRACTICE, UPRETORIA
February to July 2023
I was the course convener and lecturer for a class of 20 honors students in a Development Studies program. This class focused on theory and also offered practice and praxis points, from a decolonial and Global South orientation.
Agenda Journal, January 2023
Interface Journal for and about Social Movements, January 2022
Journal of Asian American Studies, February 2022
Accessible from Volume 25 (1), Johns Hopkins Press, here.
LECTURER, BLACK STUDIES,
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
CUNY, January 2022 - June 2022
I teach an undergraduate seminar on the Black World Experience, focusing on pre-colonial cosmologies, resistance to enslavement and colonization, social movements and multiracial solidarities, and arts & culture in the struggle for Black liberation. Syllabus available here.
A REVOLUTIONARY COUNTER-ARCHIVE OF DIASPORIC QUEER SOUTH ASIAN ACTIVISM AND SOLIDARITIES
Kohl Journal, Issue 7.1, Summer 2021
LECTURER, SOCIOLOGY,
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
August 2021-present
I teach a class called Culture, Identity, and Society, geared towards Honors and Masters students. This course focuses on power, privilege, identity, and culture, and particularly examines social movements that attempt social transformation through interrogating dominant norms around culture and identity.
"QUEERING SOLIDARITY"
MASTERS RESEARCH
SOAS (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
September 2020-September 2021
This research conducted a comparative analysis of South Asian diasporic organizing in the UK and the US, focusing particularly on the impact of queerness on multiracial solidarity.
Full dissertation accessible here, research also featured in MobLab and Kohl Journal Issue 6.
SOCIAL MOVEMENT UNIONISM FROM SOUTH TO NORTH
SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, January 2021
QUEER SOUTH ASIAN SOLIDARITIES AND INTIMACIES
Kohl Journal, December 2020
CORONAVIRUS AND CAPITALISM: EXPANSIONS, UNVEILINGS, RUPTURES
Summer 2020
Published with Peace Land and Bread Journal Issue 2, also featured in Journal of Social Dialogues
FROM REVOLUTION TO CIVIL WAR: DEVELOPMENT OF CONFLICT IN ARAB SPRING LIBYA AND SYRIA
WashU International Review, 2012
Cited in over 90 academic journals. Access here.
