I am a Mellon Postdoc and Teaching Fellow in the Crime, Law and Justice Studies Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington 

I got my PhD  in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at Cornell University with a concentration in Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies. My doctoral project funded by the Social Science Research Council examines the politics of prison reform and the intersections of carceral and familial regimes in postcolonial India. I study everyday engagements between prisoners and citizen collectives and the forms of care, strategies of governance and imaginations of safety in the city that they illuminate. 

My scholarship draws from my experiences volunteering and teaching in prisons in India and the US respectively. I am the co-founder of the Abolitionist Anthropology Working Group - a mutually supportive community of anthropologists invested in diverse anti-carceral scholarly and social justice work.