I am Academic Counselor at the University of Pennsylvania College Achievement Program (PENNCAP). I am a first generation scholar and am deeply invested in the success of first generation and low income students. I have a PhD in political science from Jawaharlal Nehru University. I was Assistant Professor at University of Mumbai (2012-2015), Visiting Assistant Professor at Temple University (2016-2019), Philadelphia, non resident Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of India (CASI) (2016), Associate Visiting Scholar, Affiliated Faculty Program at Penn's South Asia Center (2016-2019), Visiting Fellow at DSA Program, Jawaharlal Nehru University, March 2014).

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I research post conflict situations in a democracy, forced migration and human rights with a regional and empirical focus on South Asia.

 

My book Communal Violence, Forced Migration and the State: Gujarat Since 2002 was published with Cambridge University Press in 2015. My contributions to journals include journals like the Journal of Genocide Research, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly.

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My detailed CV is available here.