1994. Doctor of Philosophy in social anthropology, Trinity College, Cambridge

Beginning April 2007 to date, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Beginning January 2017-December 2019 Institute Chair Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Beginning March 2003, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Beginning September 1999, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2023. (with Anu K Antony). In correspondence with an ever-expanding heaven: Subject formation and spiritual labor among the Syrian Catholic nuns of Kerala. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 13, 3: 573-586.

2023. (with Anu K Antony). Prayer as an actant: Freedom and sociality in the subject formation of a Catholic nun in Kerala, South India. Social Compass 70, 2:169-186. 

2022. (with Anu K Antony). Called to God: Event, narration and subject formation in the vocation of a Catholic nun. Critical Research on Religion 11, 1: 33-47. 

2022. (with Prithiraj Borah). Adivasi Mahasabhas: Locating Gender in the Adivasi Movements in Assam. Economic and Political Weekly 57, 49: 32-38. 

2022. (with Sherin Sabu). Menstrual kinship: Bonds of Intimacy and Care Work of Women in Central Kerala. Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2022.2136229. 

Selected Conferences (Last 10 years)

Department award for excellence in teaching: Awarded the departmental award for excellence in teaching in 2019, based on student feedback of teaching performance of previous several years.

Institute Chair Professorship: Held at IIT Bombay from 2017-2020. 

Indian Council of Social Science Research’s research grant awarded for Rs 900000 for 1.5-year small research project.

Indian Council of Social Science Research’s conference grant of INR 100,000 awarded for holding an international conference on ‘Structure, institution and organization in globalizing India’ in 2012.

Professor of Sociology (HSS) and Associate Faculty (ADCPS)

Life Member, Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bangalore

Life Member, Indian Sociological Society

Life Member, Indian Anthropological Association

Life Member, Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society

Life Member, Asiatic Society of Mumbai