I am a doctoral candidate in Sociology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. I have completed my Masters in Sociology from Rutgers (2005) and Master of Philosophy in Economics (1999) from Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. My research interests are in Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Political Economy, Labor Movements, Social Movements, Qualitative Methods and South Asia. I have published with the Journal of Historical Sociology, World Society Foundation and Economic and Political Weekly.
Here is my most recent curriculum vitae.
Dissertaion Research
My dissertation compares two sites of a labor movement in India, to show the contrasting ways in which workers' identities emerge among communities in the periphery. For the dissertation, I did archival and ethnographic research in central India, as an International Dissertation Research Fellow of the Social Science Research Council. Here are some photographs from the fieldwork sites.
Teaching
I have taught undergraduate level courses in Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Social Research (aka the Methods Course), Classical Sociological Theory, Contemporary Sociological Theory, and Expository Writing (in the English department) at Rutgers. I will be teaching Political Sociology in the Fall of 2009.