University of British Columbia
Graduate Student, Anthropology
York University, Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation
PhD Student
About
I am interested in the multifarious spaces that are created by the intersections between religiosity, embodiment, gendered identities and agency. My feminist ethnographic research involves exploring the religious practices of Sikh women in New Delhi and the ways in which religious bodies and practices are created, honed, practiced and carried out in everyday life. My other areas of interest include: Muslim, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Zoroastrian religious embodiment and practice, death, mourning and grief, spirit possession and religious ecstasy, Partition history, diasporic studies, communal violence, social memory and traversing connections between quantum physics and religious experience.
I have a number of years of experience working in university research settings, community development and international development, both in Canada and in India in various fields.
MA: Gender and Development (Institute of Development Studies/University of Sussex, United Kingdom, 2008)
BA: Communication and English Literature (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2004)
