About

I am a PhD candidate of sociocultural anthropology and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Davis. Through storytelling, film, and ethnographic research, my work engages with topics of labor and work (paid and unpaid), food systems, migration/diaspora, wellbeing, neoliberal subjectivity, and resistance with a current focus on Punjabi diaspora families.  My interdisciplinary  research focuses on how diaspora families experience work and non-work in relation to California’s food supply chain.

I utilize film and storytelling as a means for community engagement and public scholarship to disseminate my research.  Unpacking Immigration, my short film, won the Loni Ding Award for Social Issue Documentary and the AT&T InspirASIAN Award at CAAMFest, a film festival in San Francisco organized by the Center for Asian American Media.  My teaching and mentorship also utilizes a multi-media approach that allows students to collaboratively engage with scholarship through podcasts, films, discussions, and readings.   My work is informed by creative multimedia approaches and the goal of making research publicly accessible.

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