I am an interdisciplinary scholar researching narratives of domination and political storytelling of religious populism. I play interdisciplinarity by practicing ethnography and yoyoing between humanities and social sciences to rediscover the familiar in unfamiliar ways. I approach my research through objects and bodies configured through history and collective memory. I follow these questions through approaches of Material Religion, Visual Studies, Intersectional Feminism, Critical Race Theory, and Speculative Realism. I begin with the mundane affairs of everyday life and end up in the weirdest and lesser-explored corners of existence. Please be aware of the madness before coming closer!

I earned my first PhD (2016) in Cultural Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics then I embarked on a second PhD (2020. Cum Laude) in Cultural Anthropology in the Netherlands to prove my worth to the ‘Lilly White Academia’. I worked and collaborated  internationally (in Australia, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, India, the Netherlands & Sweden) 

I have been awarded the Einstein Research Fellowship, the Niels Stensen Fellowship, and Gerda Henkel Foundation Grants.

Currently, I am an assistant professor of Inhumanities at the faculty of Humanities of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.