Talks & convenings
- Feb 2025
Beyond the Border: Ecology, Economy & Society in the Thar Desert
University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
Convened, in collaboration with the University of Sindh and with funds from the American Institute of Pakistan Studies.
- Feb 2025
Caste and Natural Resource Access in Jodhpur State, c. 1660–1950
Foundation for Agrarian Studies (with the University of Oxford), virtual
- May 2024
Mapping Land and Environment in Historical Rajasthan
South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania
Co-organized workshop teaching fundamental GIS methods to invited faculty from India.
- Mar 2022
Land Disputes and Local Bureaucracy in Eighteenth-Century Western Rajasthan
Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI — panel convener
- Jan 2022
Fanning the 'Farce': Social Reform Councils in Late Colonial Northwest India
American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA — panel convener
- Oct 2021
Claiming Caste: Re-defining Lineage in Late Colonial Northwest India
University of Wisconsin–Madison Annual Conference on South Asia — panel convener
- Jul 2021
Reconsidering Customary Law: Local Legalities in and beyond Colonial Rajasthan
European Conference on South Asian Studies
- May 2021
The Pragmatics and Politics of Water in the Seventeenth-Century Indian Desert
Yale University InterAsia Water(s) Workshop
- Dec 2020
Beyond Brahmans: Courtly Land Gifts in Northwest India, c. 1660–1952
Delaware Valley British Studies Seminar (invited)
- Mar 2017
Archiving the Bhats and Charans of Colonial Rajasthan
Rajasthan State Archives, Bikaner, India (invited)
- American Institute of Pakistan Studies
- Japanese Association of South Asian Studies
- European Association for South Asia Studies
- American Historical Association
- Association for Asian Studies
Available for invited lectures and seminars on South Asian history, environmental history, and the archives of caste.
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