For the last several years I have worked on the topics of racial formation, postcolonial citizenship and the Indian diaspora in the United States and England. More recently, I have begun two projects that explore cross-cultural encounters, in the urban space of Harlem and in the transnational migratory zone of the Americas. In both cases, I am interested in how social space is produced not through exclusive or singular identities, but through what Edouard Glissant and other theorists have described as relation. How literature, history, and ethnography become different sites for reading that relation is a question that informs my interdisciplinary research and teaching.

Representative Publications:

1997. "Building Diaspora and Nation: the 1991 `Cultural Festival of India' ", Cultural Studies 11 (2): 296-315.

1997. "Feminisms of the Diaspora Both Local and Global; the Politics of South Asian Women Against Domestic Violence", in Women Transforming Politics, eds. Cathy Cohen, Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto. New York: NewYork University Press.

1999. "New Immigrants, New Forms of Transnational Community: Post-1965 Indian Migrations", Amerasia 25(3).

2000. "Dialectics of Place and Citizenship", in The Pragmatist Imagination: Thinking about "Things in the Making' ", ed. Joan Ockman. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

2001. "Locations for South Asian Diasporas", in Annual Review of Anthropology 30, pp.551-572.