I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

 

I completed my PhD in City and Regional Planning and Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. My dissertation  examined how digital technologies intersect with social institutions such as caste, religion and kinship to structure labor-market access in urbanizing India. I have also participated in and maintain urban research projects in a number of countries including Brazil, Mexico, France, South Korea, and the United States. I hold a master's degree from Sciences Po, Paris, and have also worked previously as a researcher at the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi) and as a Fellow at the Indian Institute for Human Settlement (Bengaluru). I am a digital humanities practitioner and helped co-found The Missing Basti Project, and also write in the popular press on politics, economy, and culture.