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Over the past several years, I have explored India's visual culture to gain further insight into colonial and contemporary politics, shared media spaces, globalization processes and material culture. My first book manuscript titled, "Caricaturing Culture in India" is a historical anthropological study of newspaper cartooning in India. The Wenner-Gren Foundation's Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship aided the writing-up of my book manuscript. Fieldwork for "Caricaturing Culture in India" was multisited. It included ethnographic and archival research in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Kerala, Lucknow, Canterbury, London, Austin, and Washington DC.

Additional complementary projects explore comic books and the Internet in relation to Hinduism and immigration in the US, and fandom. I am also developing a book manuscript on Gandhi. In addition to media, I have a strong interest in science and medical humanities.

My research has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Institute for Historical Research (University of London)-Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, the U of Texas at Austin and the U of Texas at Arlington.

doctoral committee

James Brow (chair), Gail Minault (co-chair), Kamran Ali, Pauline Strong, and Kathleen Stewart.