Publications
The People, in Parts: the Majoritarian Work of the Minority Form. Forthcoming Book with University of Chicago Press.
Fuzzy Borders: Media, Migration Brokerage, and State Bureaucracy. American Ethnologist. 2024
Visualizing Citizenship in a Bureaucratic Frame. Visual Anthropology Review. 2023
Invasive Media: The Making of A Gregarious Species. Journal of Media Art Study and Theory. 2023
with Ghazal Asif. Pakistani Politicians as Hindu Gods: The Visual Excesses of a Religious National Imaginary. Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 2023
Governing by Proximity: State Performance and Migrant Citizenship on the India-Pakistan Border. Cultural Anthropology. 2022
Our Sisters and Daughters: Pakistani Hindu Migrant Masculinities and Digital Claims to Indian Citizenship. Journal of Immigration and Refugee Studies. 2022
Virtual Belonging, Digital Diaspora, and Hindu Sindhi Identity in the early 2000s. Journal of Sindhi Studies. 2022
A Pakistani Hindu demographic Migration Survey, western Rajasthan. Handbook of Refugees in India. Routledge Press. 2022
with Ghazal Asif. Unwelcome Guests and Hostages: Minority Claims on the State Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 2020
with Syantani Chatterjee. India's Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): Citizenship and Belonging in India. Political and Legal Anthropology. 2020.
Neither Here nor There: Pakistani Hindu Refugee Claims at the Interface of the International and South Asian Refugee Regimes. Journal of Refugee Studies. 2018
Warriors of Goja: Pains and Pleasures of the Sikh Male Body. Sikh Formations. 2014
Edited Collections
with Mohsin Bhat. Minority/Majority Politics. Borderlines. Forthcoming
with Zeynep Gürsel and Karen Strassler. Bureaucratic Portraiture and Practices of Citizenship. Visual Anthropology Review. 2023
with Syantani Chatterjee. India's Citizenship Amendment Act. Political and Legal Anthropology Review. 2020
Op-Eds
with Uttara Shahani. 70 years on, why do Sindhis still need to prove they belong? Times of India. 2025 Translated into Hindi and Sindhi.
A love story that challenges nationalism in South Asia? Not so fast. Dawn News. 2023
Translated into Nepali,
Films and Creative Scholarship
Border Trilogy - Enemy Property (in Production); Kaagaz ke Chakkar (in Production); A Gregarious Species
Select Screenings: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Flaherty NYC, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Mellon Border Environments Seminar, Rhode Island School of Design; Experimenter Learning Programme; Cornell Biennial SWARM; CAMRA at Penn Screening Scholarship Media Festival
Kitne Passports? (in Production)
1982 (6 min, USA/India, in Post-Production)
Stand Stable Here with Vijayanka Nair (2-channel video installation, 8 min loop, 2019)
Sindhi Kadhi (8 min, India/USA/France, 2018)
Produced by The Grandmas Project
Jodhpur Films (50 min, India/Australia, 2016)
Childhood and Modernity Video Workshop Facilitated by Natasha Raheja
Directed by David MacDougall (Australian National University)
Fishermen’s Right to Know (10 min, USA, 2015)
Produced by the Southern Environmental Law Center
Cast in India (26 min, USA/India, 2014)
Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources
Select Screenings: DOC NYC, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Sebastapol, Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Sebastopol Documentary Festival, Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, ETNOfilm, ETHNOCINECA, International Documentary Association
Malini Srinivasan (10 min, USA, 2012)
Sindhi Voices Project Oral History Interviews (2011-2014; archived with the 1947 Partition Archive)
Interviews and Roundtables
with Stephen Campbell, Adrian D. Godboldt, Elise Hjalmarson, Seth M. Holmes, Saida Hodžić, Natasha Raheja, Gerardo Rodriguez Solis, Arjun Shankar, Jennifer E. Shaw. Borders, labor, and beyond: Collective reflections on Harsha Walia's writing, activism, and influence on the anthropology of work. Anthropology of Work Review. 2024
Book and Film Reviews
Documenting Worker Struggle. Visual and New Media Review, Fieldsights, Cultural Anthropology Website. August 27, 2020
Mediating Mobility: Visual Anthropology in the Age of Migration. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies (2018): 148-150.
Ishaare: Gestures and Signs in Mumbai American Anthropologist 119.4 (2017): 756-757.
With Rowena Potts. Interview with Shashwati Talukdar. Visual Anthropology Review 31.2 (2015): 201-202.
In the news
- College of Arts and Sciences announces 2026 Klarman Fellows
- In India, computer typists embody ‘fuzzy’ nature of state borders
- Cornell Center for Social Sciences names 14 faculty fellows
- Creating ‘political economy of hope’ at Pakistan-India border
- Migrations grants fund worldwide interdisciplinary projects
- CIVIC radical collaboration initiative makes six new hires
