I am a PhD Candidate of Sociology with a Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. My research lies at the intersection of historical sociology, political sociology, women and gender studies, geography, and postcolonial studies, and I employ historical methods to critically examine the relationship between gender, the colonial state, and anticolonial movements. My work broadly examines how women become implicated in macro historical processes, such as state making, wars, and national liberation movements, by specifically focusing on property relations.

My dissertation draws on previously unseen archival documents collected in Lahore, London, and San Francisco to reveal how gendered relations of property were reinforced through the consolidation of colonial state power during the First World War in British India, especially through welfare and state response to revolutionary activity. By putting welfare and state repression in relation to land, it constructs a novel analysis of the war and revolution nexus, and offers new insights on the enduring and unjust legacies of the colonial imposition of gendered property relations.

My work has been published in Political Power and Social Theory‍ ‍and the Journal of World-Systems Research and has won awards from the American Sociological Association Marxist Section, Canadian Sociological Association Comparative and Historical Research Cluster, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. My research has been supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Ontario Government (OGS), University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs Center for South Asian Studies, and the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies, along with internal fellowships and grants.