Position Title
PhD Candidate
Research Focus
Conceptions and negotiations of work in the everyday, diaspora workers, intergenerational families, neoliberal subjectivity; U.S. and South Asia, Punjabi diaspora communities
Interests in food and agricultural systems, transnational health practices (mind/body practices, meditation, yoga), and notions of wellbeing within contemporary capitalism
Publications
2023. Harleen Bal, "Revitalizing Anthropology: Breaking the Confines of Anthropology’s Silo.” In Revitalizing Anthropology through Benefiting Others, edited by Robert Borofsky: 89.
2021. Harleen Bal. What Should We Learn from India’s Farmers’ Protests? CounterPunch. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/08/what-should-we-learn-from-indias-farmers-protests/
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. FACETS. 2: 715-732. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2017-0031
Teaching
ANT 100: Anthropological Theory
ANT 002: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
-through Film and Media
-through Race
-through Medical Anthroplogy
ANT 021: Zombies
Awards
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