• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

    • 2020. "What Remains of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement". In Niloufer Siddiqui, Mariam Mufti, and Sahar Shafqat (eds.). Pakistan's Political Parties: Surviving between dictatorship and democracy. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

    • 2013. "Nation, Space and Exception: Pakistan’s Basic Democracies Experiment". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Winter. 
    • 2010. "Private Satellite Media and the Geo-politics of Moderation in Pakistan". In Shakuntala Banaji (ed.). South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, Contexts. London: Anthem Press.
    • 2007. "The Politics of Commensuration: The Violence of Partition and the Making of the Pakistani State". Journal of Historical Sociology. vol. 20 (1–2).
    • 2005. "Cultural Politics of Hope and Coke: Media, Marketing and Citizenship in Pakistan". Economic and Political Weekly. v. 40 (40).

    My research addresses questions of state power, urban space, and the production of political identities in South Asia and the Muslim world. Currently, I am working on a manuscript titled "Movement through Difference: Emergency, Nation and Popular Politics in Pakistan." Based on two years of fieldwork in Karachi, it examines the Muttaheda Quami Movement (United Nationalist Movement), an urban political party that is in the process of transitioning from an ethnic platform to one that is more universal in scale and ideology.

    • Introduction to Anthropology
    • Social Theory
    • Refugees: Local, National and Global Perspectives
    • Culture, Power, Violence
    • Urban Anthropology