Projects

The book project, “Capitals in the Margins: South Asia Since Partition” seeks to answer why, despite the shared experience of colonial British rule and a shared investment in anticolonial nationalist movements, South Asia remains the least integrated region in the world.

How did British colonial efforts to expand “commodity frontiers” come to shape environmental changes on one hand and contestations over belonging, citizenship and territory on the other in South Asia?

This research integrates several methods to comprehend the movements of forcibly displaced people in Athens, Greece, and neighboring areas.

My project explores Martin Luther King Jr’s highly publicized visit to both East and West Berlin. King arrived in September 1964, only a few months after the passage of the Civil Rights Act and just before he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Outcomes include a suite of new practices, an open access Generative Contemplation Toolkit, and launch of the Contemplative Design Lab at UVA.

I plan to do a historical analysis of the convict labor used by the British East India Company in the early nineteenth century in their newly acquired territory in the North Western Provinces of British India.

The study investigates the roles of judicial diplomacy and comparativism within Latin American courts, analyzing the impact of institutional capacity and legal education on the adoption of foreign law.

Many occupier governments seek to permanently integrate occupied territories into their national borders.

What are the limits of Puerto Rican nationalism?

In the face of climate disaster and gross inequity, degrowth is a sociopolitical movement that proposes an alternative to the hegemony of capitalist economism and commodification, advocating for a collectively supportive, equitable and non-accumulative way of life.