Please contact me for a full CV. Some highlights are below.

Education

• 2008 PhD, Political Science, Yale University
• 2004 M.Phil., Political Science, Yale University
• 2003 M.A., Political Science, Yale University
• 2001 A.B., Political Science, Bryn Mawr College

Employment

• 2026– Georgetown University in Qatar, Associate Professor of International Politics
• 2025–2026 Lehigh University, Department of Political Science, Professor
• 2023–2024 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India
• 2015–2025 Lehigh University, Department of Political Science, Associate Professor
• 2008–2015 Lehigh University, Department of Political Science, Assistant Professor
• 2011–2012 Jamia Millia Islamia, Sarojini Naidu Center for Women’s Studies, Visiting Fellow
• 2007–2008 Yale University, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow

Books

• In progress. Youth Protest in South Asia: Mobilization Beyond Parties.
• 2024 Corporate Social Responsibility and Civil Society in India. Anthem Press. Open access.
• 2018 Postsecular Feminisms: Religion and Gender in Transnational Context. Bloomsbury Academic. Editor.
• 2016 Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India: The Role of Activism. Routledge.
• 2011 The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India: Tools and Traps. Kumarian Press / Lynne Rienner. With Duncan McDuie-Ra.

Articles and chapters are listed on the Research page, with summaries on the Articles and Chapters page.

Selected awards and fellowships

• 2023–2024 Provost Faculty Fellowship, Lehigh University
• 2023 Fulbright-Nehru Senior Scholar Fellowship
• 2022 Christian and Mary Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, Lehigh University
• 2021 Williamson Prize for Best Social Science Article, Lehigh University
• 2020 Sacred Writes Fellowship on Religion and Politics in India
• 2018 Neidell Award for Outstanding Faculty in Political Science
• 2017 Keynote address, ACFID Annual Conference
• 2017 NWO-WOTRO grant, Netherlands foreign aid project on civil society advocacy in India
• 2016 Williamson Prize for Best Social Science Book, Lehigh University
• 2013 Runner-up, Best Public Intellectual Special Issue, Council of Editors of Learned Journals (Journal of Women’s History 24:4)
• 2011 “India-US Dialogue” Fellowship, Asia Pacific Center for Strategic Studies

Teaching

• 2024 “Ungrading, Active Learning, and Curricular Co-Creation,” Faculty Development Program, MKES Institute of Management Studies and Research, Mumbai, January 10
• 2024 Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of Political Science, Lehigh University
• 2023 “Building an Emergent Syllabus,” Workshop, APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Baltimore, February 12
• 2020–2021 Facilitator, department workshops on decolonizing and diversifying pedagogy

For more on my courses and teaching philosophy, see the Teaching page.

Disciplinary service

• 2026– Elected Member, APSA Council
• 2026 Chair, APSA Distinguished Teaching Award Committee
• 2025–2026 Chair, APSA Religion and Politics Section (Treasurer 2023; Chair-Elect 2024)
• 2025 Program Chair, Critical and Normative Theory Section, Western Political Science Association
• 2020–2021 Program Co-Chair, APSA Women, Gender and Politics Division
• 2015–2020 Book Review Editor, Politics, Religion and Ideology
• Reviewer for university presses (Cambridge, Stanford, Temple, Routledge), journals, tenure cases, and international fellowships (Fulbright-Nehru, Government of Ireland)

Georgetown University in Qatar service

• Elected GUQ representative to Main Campus Executive Faculty 2026-2028
• Chair, Mentorship Committee
• Member, Research Committee and CIRS Faculty Advisory Committee
• Faculty Advisor, South Asian Society