Publications
Single-authored Books:
2019. Garland of Bones: Child Runaways in India. New Haven: Yale University Press. Website.
Review of Garland of Bones in the Journal of Asian Studies (January 2020)
2011. Ismaili Modern: Globalization and Identity in a Muslim Community. Chapel Hill: UNC Press. Website.
Edited Books:
2023. Barvalo: Roms, Sinti, Gitans, Manouches, Voyageurs. Paris: Anamosa Editions. Website (exposition
catalog with Françoise Dallemagne, Julia Ferloni, Alina Maggiore, and Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka).
Selected Articles:
“Land of the Ungoverned: On the Historiography of Lawlessness at the Frontiers of Empire.” Himalayan Ummah. New York: Routledge Press (Jacqueline Fewkes and Megan Sijapati, eds), 2020.
“Writing Transnationality: Locating Citizenship in Fluid Cartographies.” Peer-reviewed chapter. The Meaning of Citizenship, Richard Marback and Marc Kruman, eds. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2015.
“Remaining Nameless: How Child Runaways Hide.” South Asia Multidisciplinary Journal 12, 2015.
“The Social Life of Death on Delhi’s Streets: Unclaimed Souls, Pollutive Bodies, Dead Kin and the Kinless Dead.” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 80(2).
Selected Grants:
National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program, Intersections of Social and Geographic Marginality in Contemporary Urban Spaces. PI. Peer-reviewed. Grant no. 1660323. $299,710. Five years, 2017-2022.
National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Program. The Rite of Running Away: Street Children’s Experiences in North India. PI. Peer-reviewed. Grant no. 0924506, $233,654. Three years, 2009-2012.
National Science Foundation, supplement of $9,954 to The Rite of Running Away awarded 2012 for a fourth year. Peer reviewed, separate application.