Grants and Fellowships

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AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
  • University of Heidelberg, South Asia Institute: Baden-Württemberg Fellow, 2023-24; now, honorary member (2024-27).
  • University of Oxford: Visiting research fellowship at Nuffield College and the Dept of Sociology for research on ethnic riots in India:
    (from 2020-2021)
  • Public Policy Fellowship of The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy, India : 2014-15
  • Nuffield Sociology Doctoral Studentship, University of Oxford : 2009-13
  • Lotus Trust India Award : 2010
  • Travel grant for research in India, St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford : 2008
  • ‘Open Space Fellow’ for Ahmedabad city, Centre for Communication and Development Studies, India and Ford Foundation : 2008-09
  • Scholar of Peace media fellowship, Women in Social Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP), New Delhi, and Ford Foundation: 2005
SEMINARS AND INVITED TALKS
  • ‘Saviours and killers: Neighbour relations during anti-minority pogroms in India’: European Sociological Association annual meeting; Oxford University Department of Sociology; Oxford Conflict and Peace Workshop; Oxford University Transitional Justice Research; University of Edinburgh; Virtual Coffee Hour meeting of the Peace, War, and Conflict section, American Sociological Association
  • ‘Populism and Collective Violence’, working group (online) at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington D.C., Aug 2019
  • Keeping the Peace book talk: JNU Delhi; Jamia Milia Islamia; IIT Bombay; Ahmedabad University; CCD Vadodara; University of Hyderabad.
  • ‘Video analysis of violent interactions’, Annual Conference of Criminology, New Orleans, US, 2016; also at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017; University of Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2017
  • ‘Next-door strangers: Explaining ‘neighbourliness’ between Hindus and Muslims in a riot-affected city’, National University of Singapore, September 2015; annual meeting of the British Association of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, April 2016
  • ‘The ‘insider’ as ethnographer: Balancing distance and involvement in a conflict-affected city’, The 9th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS9), Adelaide (Australia), July 2015
  • ‘Cooperation and Protection in a Peaceful Neighbourhood’, Revisiting the Working Class Neighbourhood in Modern South Asia, CeMIS, University of Göttingen, Germany, July 2014
  • ‘The Ecology of Ethnic Violence: Attacks on Muslims in Ahmedabad in 2002’, Oxford University Graduate Research in Progress, May 2012; Wisconsin-Madison South Asia conference, US, Oct 2012
  • ‘The Political Logic of Ethnic Violence: The Anti-Muslim Pogrom in Gujarat, 2002’, American Sociological Association, Denver, US, August 2012; South Asia in Transition, Oxford, Nov 2011
  • Invited speaker to discuss my book in the panel titled, ‘Explaining Violence’: Hyderabad Literary Festival, 2020
  • ‘Innovative methods of studying residential segregation in India’, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, June 2018
  • ‘Ethnographic fieldwork in conflict-affected cities: methods’: Oxford University, 2013; 9th International Conference of Asia Scholars, Australia 2015; Ashoka University, India, Nov 2017
  • ‘Mixed neighbourhoods and contact: Explaining ‘neighbourliness’ through cognitive maps, 7th INDAS International Conference, Japan, Dec 2015; Azim Premji University, India, Aug 2017
ACADEMIC SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS
  • Reviewer for Oxford University Press; Social Forces; Ethnic and Racial Studies; Contemporary South Asia; South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; Politics, Groups, and Identities
  • Member of American Sociological Association; British Association for South Asian Studies; European Sociological Association; American Academy of Religion
  • Editorial committee member at the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2020-21