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My ethnographic research engages with conceptions and negotiations of work in the everyday, critical food studies, diaspora and immigrant workers, intergenerational families, and neoliberal subjectivity with a current focus on Punjabi diaspora communities. My dissertation fieldwork has been supported by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and additional grants.
Works
2025. Book Review: Work, Society, and the Ethical Self. Exertions. https://saw.americananthro.org/pub/tnk4s8h5
2024 “Diasporic Strategizing: Punjabi Sikh Immigrant Navigations of Labor and Citizenship within Contemporary U.S. Racial Capitalism” in Dialectical Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-024-09749-5
2024. Book Review: Side Hustle Safety Net. Exertions. https://doi.org/10.21428/1d6be30e.a3d7388b
2023 Unpacking Immigration, directed by Harleen Bal (California), Film.
2023 "Revitalizing Anthropology: Breaking the Confines of Anthropology’s Silo” in Revitalizing Anthropology through Benefiting Others, edited by Robert Borofsky: 89.
2017. Elizabeth Ransom, Carmen Bain, Harleen Bal, and Natasha Shannon. “Cattle as Technological Interventions: The Gender Effects of Water Demand in Dairy Production in Uganda” in FACETS.
Teaching and mentorship bring immense meaning to me. Especially in an era of seemingly infinite amounts of content and data floating around us, the process of learning and questioning (rather than regurgitating information) is increasingly crucial. Cultivating critical thinking and analysis skills through a collaborative learning approach is my pivotal aim as an educator and mentor. I utilize several non-traditional teaching methods in my pedagogical approach, including inquiry-based and project-based learning, along with experiential educational approaches. I've had the privilege of teaching, mentoring, and learning from the outstanding undergraduates at UC Davis as both an instructor and teaching assistant. I’ve worked on a variety of upper-division and introductory courses, including Health and Medicine in a Global Context, Anthropological Theory, Capitalism and Power, Introduction to Anthropology through Media & Film; Medical Anthropology; Race; Health, and a course on zombies (a deep dive into race, labor, and ritual through the concept of the zombie), among others.
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