I am an anthropologist interested in examining how everyday gendered experiences, in urban settings, are articulated and negotiated by gender minorities through precepts of violence, surveillance, mobilities, fear, morality, and honor rooted in social structures. I use ethnographic, feminist, and phenomenology approaches to investigate social issues of gender, sexuality, violence, urbanism, spatiality, subversions, everyday, and pedagogy.

At NUS College, I teach a foundational course on social sciences and Singapore studies as well as an elective course that examines the lives of marginalized individuals in society and the risks they undertake to make it possible.

In 2024, Sciences Po and Universitè Paris Citè awarded me a fellowship to spend a semester as a visiting faculty member, during which time I had the opportunity to teach and collaborate on research projects at Sciences Po, Paris. I was teaching a course titled, 'World Feminisms: Beyond the West.'

I received a 2-year grant as a PI in 2024 with collaborator Hélène le Bail (Sciences Po) under the NUS-Paris grant to study the formulation of social worlds by South Asian and Chinese migrated women in Singapore. 

I received my PhD from the department of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, following an MA from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India) and a BA (Honours) in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University (India). 

Prior to joining NUS College as a lecturer, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Communications and New Media department, at NUS, on a project that investigated campus sexual violence (including technology-facilitated) in Singapore.

At NUSC, I run one of the impact experience programmes called Gender Matters Everyday. In this programme, I supervise students in service and experiential learning projects focused on issues of gender and sexuality in Singapore.