Department Head for Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago (Present)
Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation (2023-2025)
Member of the Editorial Collective, Anthropology of Work Review (2021- Present).
Director, Mobilities and Methods Lab at UIC. The Mobilities and Methods Lab has an exciting podcasting partnership with the New Books Network. Listen to our podcasts.
Expanding Internationality Professorship at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (2021-2023).
I have been a visiting fellow, visiting professor, and visiting distinguished professor at various centers at my own university such as a Faculty Fellow at UIC 's Institute for the Humanities and at the Great Cities Institute, and at international universities and institutions such as the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, the Center for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University, UK, the University of New South Wales, Australia, and the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore.
In my research, pedagogy, and service to my university and my discipline, I have been involved in both local and national efforts at expanding the diversity of the professoriate, such as the Equity Advocates Program, expanding opportunities for doctoral students at Minority Serving Institutions, and supporting programs to expand access to students in the classroom.
National Science Foundation, Cultural Anthropology Senior Research Award for "Labor webs and the Transformation of Local Transportation Infrastructures," 2019-2023, Principal Investigator
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Post-PhD Research Grant in Socio-Cultural Anthropology for “Everyday Technologies of the Urban: Motoring and Mobilities in Bombay/Mumbai’s Taxi Trade.” (2016-2018), Principal Investigator
Social Science Research Council, Transregional Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013), Finalist; Principal Investigator
American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship, “Taxi Drivers and Urban Change: Local Histories of Place in Mumbai’s Pathanwadi.” (2010-11), Principal Investigator
American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS), Junior Dissertation Research Fellowship (National competitive fellowship for dissertation research in India) (2005-2006), Principal Investigator