Position Title
PhD Candidate
Research Focus
Conceptions and negotiations of work in the everyday, food system labor, diaspora workers, intergenerational families, neoliberal subjectivity; U.S. and South Asia, Punjabi diaspora communities
Interests in food studies and agricultural systems, transnational health practices (mind/body practices, meditation, yoga), and notions of wellbeing within contemporary capitalism
Publications
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 100: Anthropological Theory
ANT 002: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
-through Film and Media
-through Race
-through Medical Anthroplogy
ANT 021: Zombies
Awards
(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 Fellow
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