Position Title
PhD Candidate
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
2026-2027: Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology
Research Focus
Conceptions and negotiations of work in the everyday, food systems and food practices, diaspora workers, intergenerational families, race; moral economies; U.S. and South Asia, Punjabi diaspora communities; visual methods and film
Research and Teaching Areas
Economic Anthropology and Sociology, Work and Labor, Food, Families, Political Economy, Immigration and Diaspora, Social Theory, Race, Global Health, Public Humanities, Feminist Theory, STS
Publications
(Under Review) 2026. "Dual Kitchens in the Diaspora" in Agriculture and Human Values.
2025. "Book Review: Work, Society, and the Ethical Self" in Exertions. https://anthrowork.org/book-reviews/book-review-work-society-and-the-ethical-self/
2024 “Diasporic Strategizing: Punjabi Sikh Immigrant Navigations of Labor and Citizenship within Contemporary U.S. Racial Capitalism” in Dialectical Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-024-09749-5
2024. “Book Review: Side Hustle Safety Net” in Exertions. https://doi.org/10.21428/1d6be30e.a3d7388b
2023 Unpacking Immigration, directed by Harleen Bal (California), Film.
2023 "Revitalizing Anthropology: Breaking the Confines of Anthropology’s Silo” in Revitalizing Anthropology through Benefiting Others, edited by Robert Borofsky: 89.
2017. Elizabeth Ransom, Carmen Bain, Harleen Bal, and Natasha Shannon. “Cattle as Technological Interventions: The Gender Effects of Water Demand in Dairy Production in Uganda” in FACETS.
Teaching
ANT 122: Capitalism and Power
ANT 129/STS 129: Health and Medicine in a Global Context
ANT 100: Anthropological Theory
STS 100: STS Methods
ANT 002: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANT 021: Zombies
Awards
Finalist, “Write To Change The World" by The Oped Project
(Film) Loni Ding Award for Social Issue Documentary, CAAMFest 2024
(Film) AT&T InspirASIAN Award, CAAMFest 2024
Wenner Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Teaching Assistant Consultant Fellow: August, 2022
Mellon Public Scholar: UC Davis Humanities Institute
Unhatching Research Award: UC Davis Humanities Institute
Critical Language Scholarship: U.S. State Department
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