Research Affiliate
I am an oral historian and an interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersection of labour, urban and media studies.
My research investigates the gendered nature of spatial division of labour in the post-1960s global economy with a particular emphasis on women’s labour in South Asia. I have been awarded the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (36 months) at the University of Glasgow for a project titled “Not Cheap Labour: Women’s Lives in Garment Supply Chains”.
In July 2025, I will start a new journey as Assistant Professor in History of Race, Colonialism, and/or Diaspora at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
In 2002, I completed a BA (Hons) degree in Engllish Literature from Miranda House College for Women, University of Delhi. I also hold an MA in English from the English and Foreign Languages University in India and ten years of work experience in the fields of print journalism and oral history research in India.
After a career in journalism between 2005-2013, which taught me some precious lessons in field work and politics of representation, I worked as an oral history curator at the Centre for Public History, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, in Bengaluru from 2013 until 2015. This hands-on training in the field of oral history brought me back to academic research and a doctoral degree in Canada.
I completed a PhD in the interdisciplinary Individualized Program at Concordia University, Montreal, in 2022. In 2022-23, I worked as the Coordinator and Community Facilitator at the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University where I facilitated university-community dialogues and supported a community of oral historians in their research and collaboration initiatives.
In August 2023, I started a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Glasgow under the transnational Deindustrialization and Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), followed by the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.
I am also a core affiliate of this world-renowned research centre in oral history and have served on its administrative board as student representative in the past.
