Curriculum Vitae
Education
Sept. 2023
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA)
PhD., Socio Cultural Anthropology: “Paradoxes of Social Incorporation: Hospitality and Hostility in the Reception of Newcomers in Berlin, Germany”
Advisors: John Borneman, Serguei Oushakine, Elizabeth Davis.
- General Examination Fields: Crisis, Marginal Masculinities, Mimesis and Post-colonial Alterity
- Research Interests: Psychoanalytic Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Mobility, Migration, Asylum, Anthropology of change and transformation.
2018
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA)
M.A., Socio Cultural Anthropology - GPA 3.9 (4)
2016
Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (Delhi, India)
M.A., Sociology - First Division, Gold Medalist
2014
St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University (Delhi, India)
BSc., with Honors, Chemistry - First Division, 81.8%
Honors and Fellowships (selected)
2022/23
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.
2022
Author Residency, Migration Politics, Amsterdam.
2020
Princeton Mellon Initiative Digital Research Grant.
2019/20
DAAD Research Grant for dissertation fieldwork - One-Year Grants.
2016/17
Merit Grant from the Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
2016
Smt.. Kunda Datar Gold Medal for M.A. Sociology
2015
Krishna Raj Summer Travel Fellowship from the Delhi School of Economics
Academic Positions
2023-
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Anthropology of Economic Experimentation, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2022/23
Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
2019/20
DAAD Visiting Researcher, Humboldt Universität
2018/21
Graduate Affiliate, European Cultural Studies, Princeton University
Teaching Experience
Spring 2021
Assistant Instructor for “Psychological Anthropology”, Princeton University.
Fall 2017/18
Assistant Instructor for “The Anthropology of Debt”, Princeton University.