Public engagement

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)

Professional memberships
  • American Institute of Pakistan Studies
  • Japanese Association of South Asian Studies
  • European Association for South Asia Studies
  • American Historical Association
  • Association for Asian Studies
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Available for invited lectures and seminars on South Asian history, environmental history, and the archives of caste.

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