I am an anthropologist trained in political economy and gender studies. My research focuses on migration, the family and agrarian change. I am currently a Post-doctoral Associate at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. 

My current book project, Plastic Patriarchy: Migration and Family in Rural in Pakistan, explores how people reconsolidate the patriarchal family in migrant-sending communities. Against perspectives that see patriarchy as a rigid relic of the past, I argue that the fluidity of patriarchy allows for its persistence over time, making it a central node through which capitalism develops. This research is based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

My dissertation received an Honorable Mention for the S.S. Pirzada Dissertation Prize at the Institute of South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley. This research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Jackman Humanities Institute and the Centre for Ethnography.