TEACHING | RESEARCH
COURSES TAUGHT
TOWSON UNIVERSITY (2012 - Current)
Professor
Cultural Anthropology
Visual & Multimodal Anthropologies
Ethnographic Methods
South Asian Cinema & Popular Culture
Anthropology of Media
Anthropology of Gender
Alternative Modernities: Indian Mediascapes
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
