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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 and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
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.
In my view, teaching is much more than knowledge transmission. Especially in an era of nearly 24/7 content consumption and artificial intelligence, 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. With this in mind, I've had the privilege of teaching, mentoring, and learning from the outstanding undergraduates at UC Davis. As a teaching assistant, I’ve worked with professors on a variety of courses, including Anthropological Theory, Capitalism and Power, Introduction to Anthropology through Media & Film; Medical Anthropology; Race; Health, and even a course on zombies (a deep dive into race, labor, and ritual through the concept of the zombie), among others.
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