Writing
Peer-reviewed publications
2024. “Challenging Ableism: A Critical Turn Toward Disability Justice in HCI.” Co-authored with Cella M. Sum, Franchesca Spektor, Rahaf Alharbi, Leya Breanna Baltaxe-Admony, Erika Devine, Hazel Anneke Dixon, Jared Duval, Tessa Eagle, Frank Elavsky, Leandro S. Guedes, Serena Hillman, Vaishnav Kameswaran, Lynn Kirabo, Tamanna Motahar, Kathryn E. Ringland, Anastasia Schaadhardt, Laura Scheepmaker, and Alicia Williamson. XRDS Crossroads. 30 (4): 50 - 55.
2023. “For Graduate Students, When the Sadness is Unbelievable: How to Research and Write if We Must When the World is on Fire.” Article in “Crip Pandemic Life: A Tapestry,” special section of Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. 12 (1).
2022. “Inclusive Education in Practice: Disability, ‘Special Needs’, and the (Re)production of Normativity in Indian Childhoods.” Children’s Geographies. 20 (6): 818 - 831.
2020. “Anxiety and the Politics of Child Well-Being During COVID-19.” Co-authored with Rabani Garg. NEOS: A Publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group.
Book chapters
2024. “Mad Laughter: On Finding and Forming Graduate Communities Through Memes.” In Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, edited by Shayda Kafai and Melanie Jones. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
2023. “Beyond Vulnerable/Tragedies: Educational Access for Disabled Children During COVID-19 in India.” Co-authored with Tanushree Sarkar. In Research in Social Science and Disability: Disability in the Time of the Pandemic, Volume 13, edited by Allison C. Carey, Sara E. Green and Laura Mauldin. Emerald Publishing Ltd.
[Chapter received the Best Chapter Award & Outstanding Author Contribution Award]
2023. “Examining Shifting Us-Them Binaries: The Experiences of Disabled Children in After-School Programs.” In Childhood and Youth in India: Engagements with Modernity, edited by Divya Kannan and Anandini Dar. Palgrave McMillan.
In press. Co-written with Cindy Lin and Kate Elliott. “A (S)low Carbon Ethnographic Invitation.” In Low Carbon Research Methods: Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonizing Academic Work, edited by Anne Pasek.
In press. “Assembling the Field During a Crisis: Disabled Carework and/as Fieldwork.” In The Disabled Anthropologist, edited by Sumi Colligan and Anna Jaysane-Darr.
Public-facing
2024. “Pedagogies for a Particular Time.” Society for Cultural Anthropology Teaching Tools.
2022. “The Body, Spread Out Into A Database.” In Parables of AI In/From the Majority World: An Anthology, edited by Rigoberto Lara Guzman, Ranjit Singh and Patrick Davison. Data & Society.
2022. “Counting as Care: Disability in Ethnographic Praxis.” In Disability as Rupture, edited by Michele Friedner and Matthew Wolf-Meyer. Society for Cultural Anthropology Theorizing the Contemporary.
2021. “Stitching Together the Patches for Ethnography,” Patchwork Ethnography: Conversations.
Book reviews
2022. Review of Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India (edited by Sandeep Mertia). IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.
2021. Review of Disability and Colonialism: (Dis)encounters and Anxious Intersectionalities (edited by Karen Soldatic and Shaun Grech). Disability Studies Quarterly.
2020. Review of Contemplating Dis/Ability in Schools and Society: A Life in Education (by David J. Connor). Disability Studies Quarterly.
I am always happy to share PDFs of my work for anyone without institutional access — please drop me a line!
Policy reports and resources
2023. Co-authored with Eve Hayes deKalaf. Digital Identity: Emerging Trends, Debates and Controversies. Women in Identity.
2022. With Sareeta Amrute, Ranjit Singh, Rigoberto Lara Guzman, Aishatu Gwadabe, Dibyadyuti Roy, Murali Shanmugavelan, Nicolas Llano Linares, Paola Ricuarte Quijano, Soledad Magnone and Vasundhra Dahiya. A Primer on AI In/From the Majority World: An Empirical Site and a Standpoint. Data and Society.
2021. With Ranjit Singh. “The Statecraft of Digital IDs: An Annotated Bibliography.” Points: Data and Society.
2021. “Sheena Kalayil Discusses Her Book, Second-Generation South Asian Britons,” CaMP Anthropology.
Podcasts
Graduate Co-Host, Criticism Inside, Alternatives Alongside: Organizing Otherwise to Intervene in Anthropology’s Future (Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research)
Co-Host, Platypod, Episodes 1 (Technologies and Politics of Accessibility) and 2 (Ableism in Anthropology and Higher Ed)
Other Creative Engagements
“The Immediacy of Broken Time: Sensing the Self During COVID-19 Fieldwork,” Feeling Digital Collective.
Three Ways of Unpeeling Time When the Apocalypse Is Mundane and Excruciatingly Slow, with Sonaksha Iyengar, Srinidhi Raghavan, Riddhi Dastidar, Janani Vaidya, and Shazia Salam.
Contributor, Pyaar Plus: Let’s Talk About Desire and Pleasure
Contributor, #TakeBackTheTech Mixtape