Main Focus
- Pedagogical and research practices in the field of legal history in India
- Colonial law and practices of jurisdiction in the British Empire in the long 19th century
- Law and minority governance
- Frontiers and borderlands
Project
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Record
2008 – 2013
Ph.D. History, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
2005 – 2007
M.A. Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
2002 – 2005
B.A. with Honors, History, Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University, New Delhi, India
Work Experience
2019 –
Associate Professor of History and Assistant Dean International Collaboration, O.P. Jindal Global University, India
2015 – 2017
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies, University of Western Ontario
2013 – 2018
Sessional Lecturer, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto
2012 – 2013
Intern, School of Graduate Studies (SGS), Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
2008 – 2014
Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant, History Department, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Awards and Honors
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, elected 2024
- Visiting Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Legal History and Legal Theory 2023
- Max Planck Institute of Legal History and Legal Theory Bursary for the Third Legal Histories of Empires Conference at Maynooth University, July 2022
- Research Associate, York Center of Asian Research, York University, Canada, 2017–2019
- SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, University of Western Ontario, 2015 – 2017
- Visiting Fellow, Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi, 2016
- Annual Award of Excellence for a Doctoral Thesis, Department of History, Queen’s University, 2014
- Dean’s Award, School of Graduate Studies, Queen’s University, 2013
- Queen’s University Graduate Award and International Tuition Award, 2008–2013
- Alan Bray Scholarship, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2010
- Huntley MacDonald Sinclair Travelling Scholarship Queen’s University, 2010
- Timothy C.S. Frank Research Scholarship, Queen’s University, 2010
- Union Grants Commission Fellowship, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2007–2008
- ubuEuropean and Comparative