Education:
MA in Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
MPhil and PhD in Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Work Experience:
Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. (2021-)
Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru. (2020-21)
Assistant Professor, School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. (2016-20)
Assistant Professor, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Symbiosis International University, Pune. (2015-16)
Awards and Fellowships:
ICAS Fellow, Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of Gottingen (October-December 2019)
Doctoral Writing Fellowship, Interdisciplinary Centre for Historical Anthropology, Freie Universitat, Berlin (October 2014-March 2015).
Junior and Senior Research Fellowship in Sociology, University Grants Commission (2010-2015).
Current Academic Assignments:
Member, Module Committee on Labour (TM2) – Labour as a Political Category, M.S Merian – Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Metamorphoses of the Political (ICAS:MP), Berlin and New Delhi.
Member, Editorial Board - Gender, Place and Culture
Associate Editor - Journal of South Asian Development
Past Academic Assignments:
Member, Collaborative Teaching Module on Social Stratification in the BRICS countries, Project on BRICS Sociology, BRICS Network University
Member, Working Group on Knowledge Economy, Employment and Skills for the formulation of the 14th Five Year Plan, Kerala State Planning Board
Co-Editor, Book Reviews - Gender, Place and Culture